If the title of this blog looks like some kind of secret code, well, I agree with you. In fact part of it (DG 307) is a kind of code. A diagnostic one. And given that the story of (1973-5) takes place during the Cold War and involves censorship, secret police, and imprisonment, well… Our […]
Tag: 1991
Tad – “Wood Goblins” (1989) and “Jack Pepsi” (1991) 12″ Records
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 […]
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 […]
Sororicide – “The Entity” (1991)
One of the questions you often get when someone finds out you have a record collection is, “what’s your most expensive record?” I suppose this is natural – people know that records are collectibles, so they assume you’re focused on the value of the items you own. And depending on how you choose to collect, […]
Jim Kirkwood – “The Eternal Champion Trilogy” (1991 / 2025)
(For more on Jim Kirkwood you can read about his Middle Earth Trilogy HERE and his Sandman Trilogy HERE) Dungeon synth is going through growing pains right now. It reached a point where at least one Facebook group has 12,000+ members and #dungeonsynth has been used over 139,000 times on Instagram. Those are paltry numbers […]