The streets of Olympia, Wash. ring with that boot heels-on-cobblestone sound as the Hive Dwellers traverse the township east to west on way to their next musical adventure. Spawned in the late double-O decade by Calvin Johnson at the Dub Narcotic Studio, the Hive Dwellers is a band, a combo as in combination of disparate individuals who share a common love of rock’n’roll, library cards and railroad travel. The assorted cacophony of membership slides around to include at any given time Olympia pioneers Gabriel Will, K.E. Sixx, Brian Weber; K stalwarts like Faustine Hudson (Curious Mystery), Spencer Kelley (Wallpaper), Karl Blau; and rock’n’roll ringers imported from out of state: Brett Lyman, Fred Thomas, Michelle Mae.
When they emerge from the froth and frumble of their active bicycle-powered lives to make music, the Hive Dwellers emit a pelt of bright, shiny (NOW) with a love of pop music underground and it’s more vacuous mainstream distant cousins. Dance. Smile when you say that. Raw freedom Dance.
In 2009 the Hive Dwellers launched an expansive Pan-American tour seeing for themselves how it is to be a slave to the rhythm hive active. As the future unfolds into the conscious mind, then continues to fade gently into the past, the Hive Dwellers are present tense, bearing witness to the maraca wilderness of the modern Basement State.
K Discography
Members of HIVE DWELLERS, THE also appears on these K Releases: