Tad are the forgotten band of the nascent Seattle scene of the mid-to-late 1980s, the scene that eventually became known around the world as “grunge”, a word intended as a genre but really more a description of a time-place-attitude nexus centered around Seattle-Tacoma-Olympia but with a blast radius that encompassed most of Washington. How important […]
Month: March 2026
The Dogmatics – “Everybody Does It” (1986)
Where could The Dogmatics have hoped to fit in during the mid-1980s? New wave had given way to pop and hair metal was still in the rising portion of its Icarus trajectory. Minneapolis was pumping out indie hits under the radar and a nascent grunge scene was bubbling under in Seattle, a revolution in the […]
William Basinski – “The Disintegration Loops” (2026)
If you’re into ambient or experimental electronica you know that The Disintegration Loops has been canonized. In 2016 Pitchfork named it the third best ambient album of all time, behind only Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II and Brian Eno’s seminal Ambient 1: Music For Airports. Originally released as four separate albums between 2002 and […]
Led Zeppelin – “Seattle 1972” (2023)
Without realizing it, over the years I ended up purchasing physical copies of most of Led Zeppelin’s recorded Seattle shows. As best I can tell the might Zep played here 11 times if you count an appearance in Woodinville in 1969 for the Seattle Pop Festival. Six of the shows, those from 1972 to 1977, […]
Vond – “Recordings 1993-1997” Box Set (2020)
I seem to be writing about dungeon synth a lot these days and I’m not entirely sure why. Admittedly I have been buying a lot of it lately, but it’s not as if plenty of other genres aren’t making it onto the stereo at Life In The Vinyl Lane World HeadquartersTM. But for whatever reason […]