Seattle Band Map: A Cartographic Study of Musical Incest

So, for the better part of the last 6 months, Rachel Ratner(KEXP, Butts, Partman Parthorse, General Awesomeness) and I have been curating(she), designing(he) and displaying(us) an 8' x 12' map and study of how bands in Seattle are connected by shared members. All the bands need to do in order to form a connection is to have released a recording in any fashion or played a show together.

It is incredible!

Follow the band map here, Seattle Band Map Blog

It will be traversing through different parts of town throughout the summer. It is a community installation, so we are looking for and encouring the music scene at large to contribute and fix any connections which they know of. Read more about it at the blog. We hope it is a never ending connection.

the beets, cmrtyz, recording

Wow, this was in may?! holy smokes, but the beets were blowing through town and Carlos and Ty, from cmrtyz ask Real Fake to record a beets song for their first batch of 7"s which they are releasing with psychic lunch records.

It was quite a fun day and effortless recording, those beets are delicious!

The records are now being released by cmrtyz, check em out at stores about the country (psychedelic summer pop-up store in NYC, rough trade in the UK and born bad in france...and guaranteed more as cmrtyz make their way about the world!)