May

28

Desolation Wilderness

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Desolation WildernessThe sound of Desolation Wilderness is a collage of punk-rock ethic and dream pop sound layered between postcards and pictures of uncertain date.  Free your mind of desolation and forget about wilderness, unless your idea of wilderness connotes a happily ambivalent vagabond.  The music of this Olympia, Washington band is a beachy-keen flash of dreamy ambient-pop that’s a little retro and more than a little happy-go-lucky.  The sound of Desolation Wilderness echoes back like Read more

Mar

23

Lake, Video for “Heaven”

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Hopefully you’re already so down with Olympia, Washington’s “Lake.” As you’ll notice in the left-hand sidebar, they play Moscow’s Nuart Theater this coming Wednesday. If you have not yet made themselves known to you, we are posting a video from their most recent K Records’ release, Oh, the Place We’ll Go.

The video for “Heaven” from said record contains soulful woodland Read more

Mar

12

Lake - Oh the Places We’ll Go

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Ashley Eriksson, musician and songstress of Lake the Band, balanced an instrument that looked like a flexible candelabra during a couple of songs at their recent show at the Fontee Fest in Anacortez, WA.  “I thought it was this weird, random sculpture that was in the back of this really creepy old house that I lived at,” she explained, but, being the artist that she is, Ashley ignored the ghosts and saw the potential for musicality.  Now, the Garden Bells are a definitive piece of Lake’s extra-ordinary charm. As Ashley said, “We like to be eclectic, we like to connect with people.”      

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The seven members of Lake share a connection that spreads through the audience.  Each member is a unique artist on his own right.  Read more