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 […]
Category: Indie
Gróa – “Drop P” (2025)
Gróa are back, and I couldn’t be happier. Call them indie, call them punk, it doesn’t matter. Gróa defies conventional genre labels. They aren’t here to make things easy for you. They’re here to make the noises they want to make, and if you don’t like it, well, that’s too bad for you I guess. […]
Biggi Maus & The Bigital Orchestra – “Dead Pigeon Society” (2025)
It feels like many, if not most, Record Store Day “limited edition” releases are put out in quantities that way exceed their actual demand. This is evidenced by how many shops have RSD “remainder” sections, often bursting at the seems with “limited” releases that no one wants. Look – I’m not a RSD hater. I […]