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 […]
Tag: 1989
“Arezzo Wave 1989” Compilation (1989)
People think I go to a lot of music festivals. I try to correct them, that in fact I only go to one music festival, I just go to it almost every year. And yes, it is a seven hour flight away, but still, it’s just the one festival. That usually just gets me blank […]
Sofa Head – “Pre Marital Yodelling (1127 Walnut Ave.)” (1989)
Full disclosure – I bought this on our recent trip to Minneapolis because it was on the city’s own Profane Existence Records label and I assumed, as it turns out incorrectly, that Sofa Head was a local band. And… I was wrong. But from the ashes of my mistake I inadvertently discovered a pretty damn […]