Dropkick Murphys
11 Short Stories of Pain and Glory (ADA Music). Review by Joe Frietze.
Tag: Loser
Grunge
Take a trip back to Seattle’s musical heydey with Michael Lavine , who brings us all manner of visual treasure with Grunge.
Our Noise
Scott Adams finds this compelling history of Merge Records, the underdog label that beat the odds and succeeded, to be insanely readable.
Sonic Boom
In author Pete Blecha’s new examination of the gnarled roots of Seattle rock music, he posits that it all started with the slurred words “Louie Louie.” Scott Adams obviously approves.
Grunge Is Dead
Greg Prato’s new oral history of Seattle music (or “grunge” to you and me, bucko) strikes the right balance between bratty humor and pathos, thinks Matthew Moyer. And was the bassist from Guns N’ Roses really in the Fastbacks? Read on,,,
Five-Oh, No (aka “Hoping for the Beast”)
Special Ed Sofield treats us to a discourse on the authorities’ abuse of your right to keep on breathing in Wednesday Again.
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