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The artifacts for this episode of the Pink Elephant’s Graveyard are varied and diverse: Sub Pop U.S.A. underground sounds are unearthed; Kendl Wnter and the Lowest Pair share a banjo duet; host Calvin Johnson visits with All Your Friend’s Friends [KLP255] NW hip hop compilation producer Eprhyme and talk Olympia MC Luvva J; the Shivas show up, turn on, split for Europe.

You know what to do.

Luvva J  at the K  place.

  Beakers get set, 1980

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Pink Elephant’s Graveyard host Calvin Johnson (the Hive Dwellers) examines the new Shivas album You Know What to Do [KLP252] and NW hip hop compilation All Your Friend’s Friends [KLP255]. Our Single of the Week is No Babies Yo No Soy Como Tu EP (upset the Rhythm). We check in with Quintron and his Weather Warlock-generated Weather for the Blind.

You can view the new All Your Friend’s Friends [KLP255] video “Jump Kick the Legs” HERE.

The Pink Elephant’s Graveyard is where we store all cultural documents uniquely K.

This episode features Olympia barber and stand-up comedian Zach Mandeville, who stopped by the Dub Narcotic Studio days before moving to Brooklyn, N.Y. Hosts Calvin Johnson and Ian Vanek grilled him relentlessly about his chosen craft(s). Zach also plays some of his favorite Olympia music including the Microphones, Skrill Meadow, Maxines.

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This week the Pink Elephant’s Graveyard explores essential K both new and from the revered past. We listen to and discuss the Treepeople album Guilt Regret and Embarrassment [KLP069], Mecca Normal Jarred Up [KLKP018], Wandering Lucy Leap Year [KLP053]; new releases by Ruby Fray (Grackle [KLP251]) and Pine Hill Haints (The Magik Sound of the Pine Hill Haints [KLP254]); special bonus song by Pinheads from Pittsburgh (who recorded at Dub Narcotic Studio – you can see photogs and read about their recording session HERE).

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Last Month the Maxines made one of their rare public appearances at the K-sponsored Helsing Junction Sleep Over, providing the Pink Elephant’s Graveyard with a golden opportunity to corral members Matt Murillo and Kelly Norman for an informal chat with host Calvin Johnson (see above photog).

The Maxines discuss their erratic existence, records, Brenda Lee and their volume in our International Pop Underground series, Drugstore [KLP140]. We listen to recent releases from their Victoria, B.C. label home La-Ti-Da Records.

and hear a song from the Wild Ones, “Dream on”.

You can view a video of the Maxines and Calvin Johnson recording the Girl Trouble song “The Skin” HERE.

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The Pink Elephant’s Graveyard cannot be denied. Located in the far reaches of that nebulous body known as the interweb, K has been stashing valuable artifacts there for your retrieval. What is K? A fair question to which we can only point upward, to the upper  echelons of the etherworld where relevant K artifacts are stored and displayed.

Taking a break from cataloging the many facets of K-istic creative expression by those who matter to us most we have decided to use an entire episode of the Pink Elephant’s Gravecast to explore recent acquisitions of phonograph records and cassette tapes. This batch includes 45 EPs from Singapore recently discovered by Kelly Norman of the Maxines; new recordings acquired while touring in Spain (see above album by Aries from La Castanya records) and the most recent releases by the Washington, D.C. combos Chain & the Gang and Priests.

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Magpie Mystery EP from Singapore. On this episode we played the first song on the first side.

Choh Ying with Maurice Patton and the Melodians 7″ EP from Singapore. On this episode we played the second song on the second side.

The Maxines’ volume in our International Pop Underground series, Drugstore [IPU140]. We played the song “Hang Around”.

Priests‘ 12″ EP Bodies and Control and Money and Power released on their own Sister Polygon label.

The Tuffo Cassette released by Los Infelices Noventas Records, Barcelona, Spain.

The latest Chain & the Gang album Minimum Rock’n'Roll (Radical Elite)

An excerpt of the Pine Hill Haints playing “Rattle Them Bones”, August 7, 2014, during a taping of the Pink Elephant’s Graveyard gravecast at Dub Narcotic Studio, Olympia, Washington. you can hear the entire gravecast HERE.

“Rattle Them Bones” appears on the Pine Hill Haints album The Magik Sounds of The Pine Hill Haints [KLP254], out now on K: http://krecs.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/03-Rattle-Them-Bones.wav

The Pink Elephant’s Graveyard is where we store all the cultural artifacts which are uniquely K. Host Calvin Johnson (The Hive Dwellers) interviews Alan Larsen, who has released music on K as Some Velvet Sidewalk, Sandy Dirt, Telepathic Youth (and as Al Larsen!), talking about his current work, his time in Olympia + life in general!

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