“Second Greatest Hits” is out now: “Fresh off the success of their amazing million selling debut CD ‘The Purdins Greatest Hits Volume 1’ comes this, from the hottest new band out of Seattle. ‘The Purdins 2nd Greatest Hits!’ 12 slabs of molten sound that were tailor made to fit everything from your son’s first princess party, to the heroic dose you had planned for this weekend. Remember that time when you lost everything and everybody that ever meant anything to you, and after a long dark journey you stumbled through a door that led you to a place where all had been made right, everything was fine, and the sky had never been so blue? This album is that door! Come stumble with us. Stumble on through to the other side! If you’ve never heard the Purdins, why are you still reading? Put this fucking record on now!”
Kaz Murphy — “Old Protest Records,” a single from the upcoming album Making Noise (Sept 18, 2026): “Kaz: I’ve been listening to protest music since I was a teenager. I was listening to a bunch of the protest LPs that I still have, when the idea came to me; why not just write a protest song by naming all the great protest songs that have stirred me and millions of others. It was a shoo-in.”
Out Now! Von Cube — "Jonny Was A Pimp" + "All Is Well" EP
“Von Cube has never been shy about pushing a song someplace it didn’t ask to go, and “Jonny Was A Pimp” is proof — a fully orchestrated reimagining, strings and all, less rock song and more end-credits of a film you didn’t know you were watching. It was arranged and produced by local musical genius and long-time Von Cube pal Brian Hutchison.
Meanwhile “All Is Well,” a genuinely-unlike-anything-else-in-the-catalog release, is a coloring-book-style CDr EP — Nick and Grady bring the moves and grooves, you bring the crayons.
Tom Dyer's Green Monkey Noize on Substack
Green Monkey Records has been releasing beautiful, weird, wonderful, homegrown Pacific NW music since 1983. Founder Tom Dyer writes, plays, records, and releases much of it from his home studio in Olympia — solo and with his True Olympians, plus music from an always evolving cast of mostly PNW artists who don’t much fit in elsewhere. Underground rock. Obscure folk. Forgotten Oly Jazz. A deep pile of jolly Christmas stuff. Plus Richard Peterson! Not too slick, not too ruff, mmm – just right! 100% truth and beauty and love. Thanks for listening (and buying) – you are appreciated!