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. […]
Category: Punk
Galleons Lap – “Themes And Variations – A Counter Industrial Revolution” (1991)
Recently Seattle lost a member of its music scene with the passing of Kevin Diers, who hosted the Loud & Local and Metal Shop radio shows on KISW, at the all-too-young age of 39. Record store Apollo Exos stepped up to help the family by selling off Kevin’s record collection, which as you can imagine […]
The Devil Makes Three – “Spirits” (2025)
Being an obsessive, it seems like I should know what artist/band I’ve seen live the most number of times. But middle-aged memory can be a bit of a blur sometimes and at the end of the day I stopped trying to keep track. What I do know, however, is somewhere near the top of that […]
Punk Compilations from Death Is Not The End (2025)
I love me a good regional comp, all the more so if it feels like there’s a strong disconnect between the genre and location, the sense that just performing this type of music in a specific time and place was a transgressive, or even dangerous, act. Punk is certainly a genre that has rankled the […]
Purrkur Pillnikk – “Orð Fyrir Dauða” Box Set (2023)
I re-entered the vinyl world in 2011 after what was about a 15 year hiatus. I don’t remember precisely what prompted me to get a new record player, though I know some of the music I wanted to explore simply never came out on CD, so that was part of it. If I’m being completely […]