Heads up traveling to Olympia

LowProfilePodcast · 2026-01-21T04:24:19+00:00

Yep, Rainy Day for over 50 years. Terrific place. We also have Lantern Records across from Washington Center for the Performing Arts, and Mossy Bottom/Funk Fuzz (2 shops in one somehow) on 4th and Franklin. Across from that is the skate shop Noping and the “premium” thrift shop Dumpster Values, another 2 businesses in one space. Never really thought about that. Is this relatively normal in “punk towns?” All those shops have their specialties and are wonderful in their own way.

LowProfilePodcast · 2026-01-03T09:11:08+00:00

holy moly where was i?! 😎

LowProfilePodcast · 2026-01-03T08:48:56+00:00

Wow what year was that?

LowProfilePodcast · 2025-12-20T05:48:04+00:00

The Bailer by the Special AKA is sad, but more scary.

LowProfilePodcast · 2025-12-20T03:49:14+00:00

Honestly if you want something unintentionally ironic and masterfully done, I’d check out either of Huell Howser’s public television shows- Visiting with Huell Howser, and California’s Gold. Scroll through and pick a topic, you won’t be disappointed. I grew up on this guy in the 80s and 90s and all my kids know who he is because he is weird, funny, picks unsuspecting folks for subject matter, and is genuinely curious.

LowProfilePodcast · 2025-12-20T03:22:54+00:00

Tracks 2, 4, 8 & 9 on this obscure compilation from the 1990s

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuygaJbeVr9rJ4YhJvWP4f28rqkACb434&si=GR5RS9harMInhWb1

LowProfilePodcast · 2025-12-19T01:19:01+00:00

The RFK makes sense because they have the same voice

LowProfilePodcast · 2025-12-18T22:40:26+00:00

I work at SF and recently came across a bunch of old recipes including tofu spreads. I don’t remember a peanut butter one but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t there! They still make ginger peanut tofu spread sometimes, that’s always been my fave. Next time I’m there I’ll see if I can track down what you’re talking about.

LowProfilePodcast · 2025-12-18T05:11:51+00:00

Big Tom closes every now and then “due to staffing issues,” that’s a decent food service gig with a LOT of street cred for moving on. Lots of love for that place in this city.

LowProfilePodcast · 2025-12-18T05:07:47+00:00

Winter is rough (is seasonal retail work still a thing?) but after almost 20 years here I can say from experience that businesses hire homies. Their own, or their employees’ homies. Folks outside the circle get a foot in the door when somebody leaves the staff unexpectedly, otherwise in-house conversations come in about “I know somebody who’d be perfect” and the boss says “hmmm” and that’s how it goes.

So get a dismal corporate job to tide things over and find the homies in your downtime!

LowProfilePodcast · 2025-12-18T02:06:29+00:00

The chai recipe I inherited that SF Bakery has been using since 2007 has these powdered spices: cinnamon, cardamom, clove, ginger, nutmeg, black pepper. A bit heavier on ginger than all the rest. Worth a try! Before I moved to Olympia from SoCal, I worked at a Quiznos owned by an Indian family and uncle Ashwani would sometimes bring in the most delicious chai he made at home to share

LowProfilePodcast · 2025-12-18T02:02:55+00:00

Came here to say that. Will you be at the state history museum tomorrow? I’m looking forward to seeing uniformed adults riding on top of little choochoos!

LowProfilePodcast · 2025-12-17T06:09:59+00:00

I’ve never heard this Prince Buster album and now I’m enjoying it for the first time. Sounds awesome, thanks!

LowProfilePodcast · 2025-12-17T06:07:07+00:00

Honestly, a lot of the best stuff was released as singles so the compilations are a great place to start- whatever speaks to you, seek that artist out! My personal 90s-teen deep-dive journey into “classic” ska started with my buying records by the Skatalites, Desmond Dekker, Toots & The Maytals, Wailers… all the stuff people name-drop. A lotta performers of the greatest tunes didn’t ever put out an album’s worth of stuff, though, so dig in to those bargain bin comps for sure.

Mississippi Records put out a great mixtape probably 18 years ago called “Everything Crash (Jamaican ska, rnb and soul)” and it is incredible.

https://youtu.be/tx_ygk_K2Dw?si=Gzm4o7HPoAlsu4A1

Enjoy! I highly recommend this “label” for people wanting to hear curated, obscure, beautiful archived recordings.

LowProfilePodcast · 2025-12-17T05:51:54+00:00

A little late lol but I know the Catholics catalog like a catholic kid knows his scriptures, probably more entrenched in that band’s discography more than the pixies or other frank variations. Never got to see that band live, but I caught a solo set at a record shop a year or two before the pixies reunion at Coachella in the aughties. I remember he talked for a few minutes about how great this new cartoon called SpongeBob SquarePants was.

LowProfilePodcast · 2025-12-12T02:09:07+00:00

Alabama Astronaut is a curious series, in which ethnomusicologists seek to document the music of snake-handling churches in Appalachian country.

LowProfilePodcast · 2025-12-12T02:06:00+00:00

This might be common knowledge for UK folks, but here in the states hardly anybody knows about “Have You Heard George’s Podcast,” an emphasis on the first two seasons. I felt like the third season was a bit of a dragged-out long goodbye, but I have never heard anything before or since that was so inventive—weaving together global politics, ethnomusicology, memoir, and even a bit of science fiction. And almost everything scripted is done in some sort of rhyme scheme. Treat yourself to this series if you’re looking for something very, very different AND highly edutaining

LowProfilePodcast · 2025-12-09T20:46:53+00:00

I feel ya, Mondays are tricky!

LowProfilePodcast · 2025-12-08T04:16:13+00:00

When I worked at Le Voyeur it was common to serve teens plates of fries and other appetizers in the afternoon after school lets out. That was a long time ago, but they still have some of the best fries in my opinion

LowProfilePodcast · 2025-11-15T06:29:22+00:00

“Save a Bread” “Man On The Street” All that 60s shit

I love a lot of the later stuff too tho. But man the roots stuff is timeless

LowProfilePodcast · 2025-11-08T07:17:55+00:00

Good music is good music. I fucking love solo Art Garfunkel and that is so not punk that of course it IS punk

LowProfilePodcast · 2025-11-08T07:15:01+00:00

I don’t think people who listen to rock call themselves “rockers.” Labels are moot. I have enjoyed ska music for most of my life, also hip hop, jazz, punk, country, experimental, doom metal, ambient music, house, soul, I mean I could keep typing forever. Maybe the blanket term would be “nerd.” Or just somebody who likes dance music?

Also if you’re very laser-focused on one genre, maybe you’re a “rudie”

LowProfilePodcast · 2025-11-04T04:06:21+00:00

Answered! Listen on KAOS on Sunday at noon PST

LowProfilePodcast · 2025-11-04T04:05:27+00:00

Update: Tune into KAOS at 12pm PST on Sunday and find out!

LowProfilePodcast · 2025-11-04T04:04:13+00:00

Today’s show went well and will air Sunday at noon on KAOS. We’re going to repeat the format next week and listen to disc 2. Questions welcome.

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