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Tag: Loser
Grunge
Take a trip back to Seattle’s musical heydey with Michael Lavine , who brings us all manner of visual treasure with Grunge.
Our Noise
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Sonic Boom
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Grunge Is Dead
Greg Prato’s new oral history of Seattle music (or “grunge” to you and me, bucko) strikes the right balance between bratty humor and pathos, thinks Matthew Moyer. And was the bassist from Guns N’ Roses really in the Fastbacks? Read on,,,
Five-Oh, No (aka “Hoping for the Beast”)
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