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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    3 CD box set with 40 songs about Olympia WA plus a detailed 80 page book with the history behind the songs and a plethora of great photos. With over 100 Olympa musicians. Stunning!

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A true story about Calvin Johnson and the Olympia punk rock scene. The stuff of legend. Before I moved to Oly, I really only knew the early K Records material. Since starting my KAOS radio show, I have become a big fan and particularly of Calvin’s Dub Narcotic material. “Ship to Shore” with Lois Maffeo on vocals is probably our most played tune. So good! This song is performed with great affection! Perhaps it can be the theme song for the new Olympia Indie Music History project that is just being started by the City of Olympia.
Baumgarten, Mark. (2012) Love Rock Revolution: K Records and The Rise Of Independent Music. Seattle Sasquatch Books.
Gilmore, Molly. (2016, June 28) Olympia’s K Records puts building up for sale to pay its debts. The Olympian. Retrieved from www.theolympian.com/news/local/article84924432.html

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Love Rock Revolution

Calvin went to England
He got some punk rock records there
Calvin went to K-A-O-S radio
He met John Foster there (that changed everything)
Calvin made a various artist cassette called Let’s Together
Thirty total cassettes from 1982 to ‘86
Including Beat Happening (almost eighty records)

Love Rock Revolution

Candice loved K and joined up when she was just eighteen
She took care of the day-to-day stuff and she helped the label grow
In ‘89, she became a partner, but everything still wasn’t great
Finally, she’d had enough
She pulled her plug in 1998

Love Rock Revolution

The International Pop Underground Convention happened in 1991
Candice and Calvin had pulled off together an unbelievable success
Calvin helped Slim Moon grow Kill Rock Stars that weekend with their first LP
Kill Rock Stars put out Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, Heavens to Betsy and
other great Riot Girl stuff (and Elliott Smith)

Love Rock Revolution

In 2016, Kimya Dawson said I wanna be paid
Calvin owed her and others lots of money so he had to sell his
Dub Narcotic Studio
In 2018, Calvin put out his delightful record Wonderful Beast
In 2021 the future still remains unwritten, but Calvin - he ain’t done yet

Love Rock Revolution

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from Olympia - A True Story, released October 14, 2022
The True Olympians + Tom Shoblom – Drums

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Tom Dyer and The True Olympians Olympia, Washington

The True Olympians were formed shortly after Tom Dyer moved back to his hometown Olympia in 2006. Their focus is primarily recording, though they do play yer occasional live show. Current members: Tom - vox, guitar etc,, Gene Tveden- bass, b-vox, Joe Cason - keys, b-vox, Lisa Ceazan- vocals, and Jeff Parkhurst - drums, b-vox. Jeff is the band's 4th drummer. ... more

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