On Friday, January 11th Hollow Earth Radio teams up with burgeoning local label CTPak Records to showcase local music and art.

CTPak Records is both a record label and an artist collective, working to push innovative electronic music and forward thinking visual art through releases, concerts, and gallery showings.

Visual artists Madeline Franks and Michael Heck will display their work, which is available here

Performers include:

Moose Portrait

Children of Kids

Erik Ryan

Bardobasho

The show is all ages with a suggested $5 donation.

Facebook invite

Albums, EPs, and live performances:

1. Death By Misadventure - The Green Pajamas (Green Monkey Records)
2. Lonerism - Tame Impala (Modular)
3. Dead Air - Atomic Bride
4. Santee- Live at Hollow Earth Radio 5-26-12. (Santee doesn’t have an official album out yet, but they have a full album’s worth of great songs. You can find their awesome 5-26-12 Hollow Earth Radio live set in the podcast pages.)
5. A Voice Hears You From Mysterious Places - Marianne Nowottny and Barry Schwabsky (Abaton Book Company)
6. Static - Tiny Knives (Stankhouse Records)
7. 1 Outta 6 Ain't Bad (When I Still Loved You) - Sip's Odyssey
8. Special Explosion!
9. Awe Naturale - THEESatisfaction (Sub Pop)
10. Adult Soft Record - Rusty Willoughby
11. Nod and the Hobgoblins (Lost Sound Tapes)
12. Danzig In The Moonlight - Ken Stringfellow (Spark and Shine)
13. Spectral Disorder - Black Hat (Debacle Records)

Songs:

1. Apocalypse Dreams - Tame Impala
2. What You Give - Rusty Willoughby
3. Jesus Was An Only Child - Ken Stringfellow
4. Curse The Night - The Raveonettes
5. Sweat - THEESatisfaction
6. This Is How It Goes - Cory Chisel & The Wandering Sons
7. Song 4 of 8 Live at Hollow Earth Radio 5-26-12 - Santee
8. Miranda - Marianne Nowottny & Barry Schwabsky
9. Tomato Kitty - Special Explosion
10. You Can't Look - The Green Pajamas
11. Pine Bender - Nod and the Hobgoblins
12. Endors Toi - Tame Impala

Konspiracy Korner airs every Thursday night from 9 to 11 PST.

At first the numbers didn't mean anything but then I thought about how I subconsciously ranked them anyway so then I ranked them more and here they are now outrageously ranked:

1. THEESatisfaction - awE naturalE (Sub Pop Records) Duh, everyone's favorite, but two words: SASS & CLASS. (avant-hop/neo-rap)
2. wimps - Demo Super fun, catchy punk jams from members of Butts, Meth Teeth, the Intelligence. Can't wait to hear the full-length next month! (PUNK)
3. Tiny Knives - Static A raw and unyielding punk rock force from a couple of Portland-based riot ladies. (PUNK)
4. Black Hat - Spectral Disorder EP (Debacle Records) Drifting into space, getting lost there for a minute. (industrial noise/ambient)
5. Evening Meetings - Forgotten In Seconds 7" Ex-members of the A-Frames making ramshackle noisy punk, appeasing fans of the Fall and other good taste havers.(PUNK)
6. Criminal Code- Hollowed 7" (Deranged Records) This Tacoma band is totally representing my gritty 'lil birth city. Their Midwestern sound churns and sprawls in a powerful punk miasma. (PUNK)
7. Erik Blood - Touch Screens An erotic storm of danceable beats and bedroom-gaze seduction. (shoegaze/electronic)
8. Big Eyes - Back From the Moon 7" (Grave Mistake Records) New York transplants Big Eyes are a welcome addition to Seattle's punk scene, and create uber-catchy power poppy punk anthems. (PUNK)
9. Special Explosion - EP Eastside teens giving everyone Insta Peter Pan Syndrome with clean tones and irresistably big choruses. (indie rock)
10. Silicon Girls - Rana I believe I have described this band as "artastically post-everything" before. This is the sound of youth explored-- at the beach, or beached, but always with carefree abandon. (math/indie rock/surf)
11. Chastity Belt - Dude Having recently relocated from Walla Walla, Washington, Chastity Belt's songs are humorous ("you look like a barbie doll/you look like Steven Seagal") SASSY, and fun! (garage rock)
12. La Luz - Damp Face EP This new all-girl band fronted by HER DJ/ex-Curious Mystery member Shana Cleveland is rippling with easy charm, the red lipstick on the seal of a kiss-off. (garage pop)
13. King Tears Bat Trip - King Tears Bat Trip 7" Mind meld. Mind melt. Mind rush. Mind crush. Mind squee. (freak jazz/outsider trance)
14. Posse - Posse Posse create garage songs that are sincere, thoughtful and honest. And they're also damn good! (garage/indie rock)
15. Kithkin - Takers and Leavers EP I have an affinity for music that sounds like this (see: Wild Beasts, Vampire Weekend) because I was seventeen once. But also this EP is a jungle of drums and pervasively catchy rhythms and hooks that are not to be ignored. (jungle pop)

This last year I have had the pleasure of hosting both The Inland Buoy radio program and The Buoy and The Bellow. Through these programs, I have discovered a lot of new music, but this year I mostly focused on older music, given my current musical obsessions are classic disco and electrofunk. So the following list isn't definitive, as I know there is a lot I haven't heard that I would probably have loved if I heard it.

1. Belbury Poly - The Belbury Tales and in general all the Ghost Box/hauntological stuff, I can't get enough of it.
   
2. Demdike Stare - Elemental Part 1 & 2
   
3. Julia Holter - Ekstasis
   
4. Actress - R.I.P
   
5. Carter Tutti Void - Transverse
   
6. Mykki Blanco - "Wavvy"
   
7. Anticipating Scott Walker's Bish Bosch. I still haven't heard it.
8. Terrence Dixon - "Dark City of Hope (Main Mix)"
9. Todd Terje remixes in general, especially his remix of "Love is the Drug"
10. Kuedo - Severant
    
11. Games - "Strawberry Skies". Not a new song, but I couldn't stop listening to it and the Gatekeeper remix this year. I am a bit behind the times.
    
12. Marielle Jakobsons - Glass Canyon
    
13. Stuff I haven't heard everything by but I enjoyed immensely: Andy Stott, SpaceGhostPurrp, Burial, Flying Lotus, X-TG, Richard Youngs' new album, Swans.
    
14. Lee Hazlewood - The LHI Years: Singles, Nudes and Backsides
    
15. Om - Advaitic Songs
    
16. Black to Comm - Earth
    
17. Dull Knife - Dull Knife on the lovely Debacle Records.
    
18. Motion Sickness of Time Travel everything.
    
19. The Conrad Schnitzler CON anthology show I did with Gen Ken Montgomery
    
20. Marrying DJ Dusty Mantle to the sounds of our favorite post-punk band.

1. Thee Satisfaction - Awe Naturale
2. Angel Olsen - Strange Cacti and Halfway Home
3. Caethua - the Summer is Over and Long Afternoon on Earth
4. Ariel Pink - Mature Themes
5. Lonesome Shack - City Man ![alt
6. the Shivas - Whiteout
7. Everything by Cass McCombs
8. Mississippi tapes - especially Sunda Pop, House of Broken Hearts Vol.s I and II, and Why Did You Make Me Human
9. the Kinks - Face to Face
10. Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness First Finale
11. Case Studies - the World is Just a Shape to Fill the Night
12. Ty Segall - split Burger tape of Melted and Goodbye Bread