In 1995...

Spin Magazine held a contest for worst band in America.

Here is a video about it.

In its honor, Hollow Earth Radio is holding our very own

WORST BAND IN THE USA CONTEST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please send us YOUR worst puke music & a brief band bio; submissions must come from a current band member. Deadline is Feb 1, 2013.

Send packages to:

Worst Band In The USA Contest
c/o Hollow Earth Radio
2018a E. Union St.
Seattle, Wa
98122

P.S. Please only enter if you're truly the worst. If you're a jerk who is racist, sexist, or homophobic don't even bother entering. You will be disqualified. Got it?

This Sunday 18th November, at 4 pm, Hollow Earth Radio in collaboration with Babel/Salvage will be hosting a reading by four local writers:Bryan Edenfield, Graham Isaac, Leigh Bell and Evan Peterson. It's free and open to the public, and will be broadcast live online on a special edition of The Buoy and Bellow show. For more details, see below!

Babel/Salvage is a non-profit engine for artistic and literary ingenuity and community involvement located geographically in Seattle, Washington. Focusing on new and contemporary work and its antecedents, we seek to promote creative outsiders, experimenters, innovators and inter-disciplinary savants from all walks of life.

Bryan Edenfield was born in 1982 in Mesa, Arizona. He currently resides in Seattle, Washington with his dog, Annabelle. There, he acts as the Official Spokesperson for the Wordless Dictionary Society, founder of Babel Books and Publishing and co-founder of Babel/Salvage, an art/boutique/publishing outfit. He is the editor and secret author of "33 Opening Paragraphs," and "Glossolopolis Number One," as well as numerous short stories and essays. He received his BA in philosophy and history from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.

Graham Isaac grew up at various points along Puget Sound, most located in Seattle. He writes, illustrates, performs, and organizes in Seattle, occasionally bopping up to Bellingham (where he once lived) or over to Swansea, Wales (where he went to grad school and co-founded The Crunch) to do things there. His writing has appeared in places such as Licton Springs Review, Hoarse, Roundyhouse, The Raconteur, Your Hands Your Mouth and he was anthologized in "As Much As We Put In: A Poetry Night Anthology." His music criticism has appeared in the Cascadia Weekly, NadaMucho and Buddyhead. At least one of those publications still exists. Graham Isaac helps run the much ballyhooed Greenwood Lit Crawl and Claustrophobia reading series.

Evan J. Peterson is the author of Skin Job (2012 Minor Arcana Press). A poet, fiction author, columnist, critic, editor, teacher, and performer, his writing has been featured in the New York Times, Weird Tales, The Rumpus, Small Doggies, Assaracus, and Aim for the Head: An Anthology of Zombie Poetry. He is the newly appointed creative director and editor of Minor Arcana Press and editor of the forthcoming anthology Ghosts in Gaslight, Monsters in Steam: Gay City Anthology 5.

Terra Leigh Bell was born and raised in the Seattle area, and has found herself unable to depart the Pacific Northwest thus far. She studied creative writing at Western Washington University, but credits most of her poetic education to the vast quantities of classic poetry and scripture she had to memorize at her Assembly of God elementary school and while homeschooling. Her favorite things in the universe are: coffee on rainy days, men, poetry, men, and singing in the choir at church, in that order.

The Vera Project, Seattle’s non-profit, all-ages music and arts venue, and Hollow Earth Radio, Seattle’s premier free-form online radio station, are joining forces yet again for our Annual DIY Holiday Fair! Vera will transform into a marketplace for independent music and crafts, along with live music and interactive silk-screening. All proceeds help support local music and art at Hollow Earth Radio and the Vera Project.

This extravaganza features several independent NW record and cassette labels, musicians, silk-screened show posters, vintage record dealers, local artists, craft-makers, and designers selling their wares throughout Vera’s venue. This is the perfect opportunity to find a one-of-a-kind gift just in time for the holidays. The event will include live musical performances by Northwest musicians, Hollow Earth DJs spinning on site, a bake sale, the Sequins in Seattle Fashion Show and a raffle for fabulous prizes!

To apply to be a vendor, contact Domenica at volunteer@hollowearthradio.org or Rachel at fundraising@theveraproject.org

Join DJ Domenica on The Buoy and Bellow radio program this Sunday the 11th of November with special guest Dr. Troy of Medical Records. Dr. Troy will be playing releases new and old from his label in addition to synthesizer favorites from Italo Disco to New Wave to the Avant.

The mission of Medical Records is to purvey "minimal synth, cosmic disco, wave (cold/new), dream/gaze pop, and futuristic music."

From 2 to 4 p.m. PST on Hollow Earth Radio.

This Saturday we have a special event for you!

NOV 10th @ Hollow Earth Radio 8PM / All-ages / $7 suggested donation

"Don’t expect Daniel Higgs to rehash drone-rock band Lungfish’s glory days at this late date. The vocalist/guitarist/mouth harpist has gone off on an odder tangent since his legendary Dischord Records group went on hiatus in 2005. Now Higgs makes genuine freak folk—Sandy Bull as imagined by Flannery O’Connor on absinthe—that’s a conduit to spirit worlds of unfathomable beauty. Higgs’s rock past sometimes resurfaces, but it’s filtered into a gnarled backwoods surrealism that could scare the bejeezus out of Will Oldham. " - Dave Segal, the Stranger

This is in regards to Daniel's show at Cairo on FRIDAY. He's also playing Hollow Earth Radio on SATURDAY!

DEETS

Daniel Higgs (ex-Lungfish) http://www.thrilljockey.com/thrill/Daniel-Higgs

Arrington De Dionyso http://arrington.bandcamp.com/album/slow-dancin-under-the-moon-tonight

Paul Hoskin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_2m-K9RF-I

Just Added! Micaela Tobin of Thousand Statues! http://soundcloud.com/mtnoise