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Blicky’s CD Release Show

Blicky’s new record drops on Wednesday January 5th and they’re playing a show at Neumos to celebrate. Come on out we’d love to see you there.

One Minute Singles

45 Band
45 Tracks
1 CD &
75 minutes
Ball of Wax 18 is out now. Pick up a copy.
Levi and Emory put out a challenge to the bands all over the northwest to submit singles between 60 and 119 seconds long and they got more songs than they could fit on a disc. This episode of [...]

Ball of Wax 17

Levi Fuller is releasing Ball of Wax 17 on August 13th at the Sunset Tavern in ballard. If you haven’t been to a ball of wax release you’re missing out. Levi will be wrangling at least 8 bands on and off the stage in a single evening in what always turns out to [...]

Beep Repaired Family Tree II

We’re releasing our third compilation and our second in what we like to call the family tree series. This edition is two disks, a total of 37 tracks and all in hand made packaging. We’re having a little release party to raise money for Hollow Earth Radio on March 21st with 22 of [...]

MAGMA FESTIVAL

Have you been interested in the goings-on of the Northwest’s community-based online radio Hollow Earth, but haven’t had the extra time or resources to put in volunteering? What if you could support the station while attending concerts you probably would be out to see anyway? Well, Magma Festival sounds like just the fit then!
Serving as [...]

New HER Shirts!

Oh WOW these new shirts!
Celebrate Hollow Earth Radio’s 2nd birthday with us and help support truly free form community radio!! Go to hollowearthradio.com to order! And Thank You!!

Dandelion Gold One

Dandelion Gold One will be out now. Scoot over to their site and pick up a copy or better yet go to the release show at the big blue house and pick one up in person!

Ball of Wax live on HER this weds late night

DJ Dearbornagain will be broadcasting live from the Sunset this wednesday just after 11pm,
speaking with Levi Fuller about his (wonderful) Quarterly Audio Magazine and giving you the live music straight from the stage..
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Ball of Wax 12 Release Show!
Wednesday, May 28th!
(Where else but) The Sunset Tavern!
with Jeremy Burk, The Crying Shame, Origami Ghosts, Poland, Ryan [...]

Scared Girl Television

Check out Scared Girl’s barrage of sock monkey movies. She got tons of movies up on her youtube station. You can also check them out on her blog. Everything from mummification to Law and Order.

White Elephant Record Exchange Project

The second in our inaugural year of quarterly musical games/projects. The first being the Harry Candy game that became Ball of Wax no.11, This one is a two CD free download.
The White Elephant Record Exchange Project was undertaken by 20 individuals in the late part of January 2008. The project involved sampling, composition, and ultimately [...]

[ March 29, 2008; 5:00 pm; ]

March is Hollow Earth Fundraiser Month

All March long Hollow Earth radio will be putting on events to cover their operating costs. There are tons of ways to get involved and help support this totally indepent, totally open format, community radio. If you haven’t listened to Hollow Earth yet… well you’re the only one, check them out here.
The best way to [...]

Harry Candy presents Ball of Wax Volume 11

In 2001, some musicians in Seattle started a musical game using my name. “Harry Candy” is a game or process of writing and recording one song or piece of music in an evening or 24 hours. The only other rule is that there must be more than one person involved, collaboration being a [...]

Noise Order Release

The most recent installment of our friend Jason Kopec’s Ground Up Series, “Release the Cheerfulness, China – Ground Up 2″ is officially being released February 12, 2008 along with Mark Johnson’s “Big Metal Boxes”.For those of you not familiar with Noise Order please check them out.A ton of work and love has gone into all [...]

Corespondents on Sonarchy

Corespondents played Jack Straw Studios for the Sonarchy Broadcast back in November. It’ll be airing for the first time on Saturday February 23rd at Midnight on 90.3 FM in Seattle and streaming at kexp.org. They played for an hour nonstop and even improvised because Olie broke a string. The show will be archived at kexp.org [...]

Beeps in TIG top NW ’07

Two of our very own Beep bands are in Three Imaginary Girls’ top NW albums of ’07 Reader’s Poll. Congrats to Joy Wants Eternity and Smile Brigade check it out!!!

Smile Brigade=worst band name 2007

Under the category of “Cutesy Bullshit”, our very own Smile Brigade gets worst band name of 2007 on A.V. Club Please do congratulate them on their special achievement.

Round One of the Harry Candy Super Jam Party

35 of us got together on this past Saturday and split into 11 groups. The groups were drawn out of a hat, no bandmates could be in the same group. Then we went our separate ways to record a song in 24 hours. The result was 45 minutes of music composed, performed, edited, and mixed [...]

The Curious Mystery on KEXP

The Curious Mystery will be on KEXP’s Sonarchy at Midnight on Saturday. Tune in to 90.3 or stream it on line at kexp.org

Smile Brigade on 107.7 The END

This Friday, October 12th, Smile Brigade are doing an in studio @ 107.7 The END to promote their new album and CD release show that night. Tune in @ 6pm. thanks.

Demo of the week

Smile Brigade’s song LWB from their new album “Take the Precious Edge off This Treacherous Ledge” was featured as demo of the week on 107.7 the End’s Young and the restless. Good job guys.
Here’s a link if you want proof. click me
by the way. Their new album is out October 16th with a CD release [...]

Goodbye Sweet Marie

We’re sad to report that the SS Marie Antoinette has lost their lease.  They’ve had very little notice and all the artists are trying to find new work spaces.  Help them out if you can.  They’ll be having two more shows before they are completely moved out.  One on Sunday Sept 2nd that is with [...]

The Carousel Festival

You should go to The Carousel Festival. We can’t take any credit for this event. We just want you to go to the festival and support the Seattle area creative/DIY community. Plus all the money they raise is going to Home Alive which is a good cause. See you there!
$15 3 day passes available @ [...]

The Stranger Shouts Out Beep Repaired

Megan Seling at the Stranger wrote a nice article about us in last weeks issue.
Read the whole article in their archives here.

Radio Free Beep Repaired

You can now taste the various swirling flavors that make up Beep Repaired on our new fangled-dangled radio machine. Just click on LISTEN NOW on the Beep homepage. Then sit back, make some breakfast. Play Scrabble. Enjoy the weekend.

New Album and New Web Site from Corespondents!

Corespondents have just released a mighty two-disc album, with one disc being a DVD. Check out noise | order records for more info on this and other releases.

Marching up the Charts

Joy Wants Eternity and The Bismarck both hit the KEXP charts this week. Top ten in the ol’ Pacific Northwest, where there are plenty of talented bands.

Instrumental Action

Ball of Wax 8 comes out May 17th and Levi Fuller has thrown a ton of beeps on this one. Joy Wants Eternity, Snowman Plan, Corespondents and Emory Liu are on this edition with 14 other great bands.

New Album Releases

Joy Wants Eternity, MiniVan, and The Bismarck all have new full-lengths! Buy albums at the Beep Repaired Catalog.

Lake of Falcons Live Cutz

The End’s Young & The Restless invited the Falcons to play a couple explosive songs. Listen to Pretty Little Knife + The Smiler.

Those sweeties at The Stranger

give love to Lake Of Falcons and Joy Wants Eternity. Check out “the future of Northwest music” for yourself in The Stranger’s Prime Time Nine.

Welcome to The Felt City

PRKR accepted this year’s RPM challenge and recorded his new record “The Felt City” completely in the month of February. There were some other great Northwest artists who got involved including our dear friend Levi Fuller.

New Radio Station

Take a journey into this Hollow Earth! Hollow Earth Radio is up and running! Drop by their site and stream some of the best NW music you’ll ever hear. Plus they were nice enough to ask us to do a half hour spot on the Family Tree Comp.  We’ll be doing another on new Beep [...]