From Sub Pop #2, 1986
“Like the Modern Lovers and the late Marine Girls, Beat Happening is a positive force; sincere and willing to take risks, they show that it’s just as radical to openly like someone as it is to brutalize and degrade through cheap sensationalism. Great record!”
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The June 2012 issue of City Arts Magazine, featuring an excerpt of Love Rock Revolution.
A young Calvin at work while wearing an OP Magazine t-shirt
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The best "Foggy Eyes" surf video yet!
The Real Calvin Johnson Gets the Madden Treatment
Oh Calvin, we miss you!
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“Beat Happening is a now, happening beat-hip trio that plays a drum and a guitar and rhymes banana with pajama and Baltic Sea with KGB. They switch their instruments and occasionally play out of key, but their fresh, naive love songs are a great antidote to sterile synth pop and nihilistic leather. Heather’s voice is pretty and Calvin’s got the deepest baritone around. An odd, engaging outfit that has recently spend two months in Japan. Their five-song cassette was produced by Greg Sage (Wipers) and is available for $2 from K, Box 7154, Olympia, WA 98507. They also have a new acoustic cassette recorded in a Japanese hotel room.” — The first mention of Beat Happening in Seattle music monthly The Rocket, found in an uncredited column titled “Eight Hot Ones.”
A review of early K Records release Danger is Their Business written by Sub Pop founder Bruce Pavitt for Seattle music monthly The Rocket.