Money was tight, the engineer was stupid and the finished product was poorly mixed.— Description of Divine Mission from the Thee Katatonix website I don’t know if the engineer was indeed stupid, but I wouldn’t go as far as to call Divine Mission poorly mixed either. Thee Katatonix’s first and only full-length has a live […]
Tag: Garage Rock
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 […]
The Sonics – “Here Are The Sonics!!!” (1965 / 1980)
The Sonics are in their own way responsible for one of the more odd situations wherein I’ve run into someone I know in an almost totally improbable place. And The Sonics own involvement was also improbable, making the entire incident improbable2. For a little context, The Sonics are a garage rock band founded just down […]