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  • How do you like 'dem apples?

    First, sorry about the French holiday between posts. Sub Pop has been gearing up the 20th Birthday celebrations with aplomb, and Tom and I were, traveling to England or trudging away on a project for a class. No doubt, you’ve all picked up the reissue of Mudhoney’s Superfuzz Bigmuff by...(read full post)

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  • A Subvert Post That’s Also About Me.

    So it’s 2000, and my admittedly crap band, the Recordbreakers, broke up after our drummer Brian quit to join an emo band and our bassist Kevin left to help form the much, much better Popular Shapes. After some shuffling around and twiddling our thumbs, the remaining Recordbreakers regrouped as the...(read full post)

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  • Lamestain may hate the Posies sometimes

    Although the Posies sometimes get lumped in with the rest of the Seattle bands from the late 80s and early 90s, in truth, the only factors that connect the Posies with grunge, Sub Pop, etc. were geography and time period. They sprouted up 90 miles north of Seatttle, at Sehome...(read full post)

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  • Saying Goodbye to Empty with the Derelicts

    February 8th 2008 marked a sad day for us Lamestain grunts as the northwest’s premier punk label, Empty Records, shut its door after 20 some years. Empty USA, as it became known as after a bizarre lawsuit over the eMpTy name and logo, released great records by legendary bands, such...(read full post)

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  • Monroe's Fur

    As every kid knows now, Seattle wasn’t the only place on the Earth where long-haired dudes abused fuzz pedals and played skuzzy, heavy garage-fueled punk rock in the 80s. Australia also had her fair share of grungy punk bands, and quite a few of them released records in the States....(read full post)

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  • Steel Wool Bring the Luck

    My first experience seeing Steel Wool live was in the living room of some house in Seattle. I can’t even remember which neighborhood it was. They played with the punk-pop band Sicko, and the sole attempt at soundproofing the room consisted of an old mattress, which someone had leaned in...(read full post)

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  • Karp – Punk in My Vitamins Tape

    While we are all mourning the end of the compact disc era, we wouldlike to take a moment to reflect on the tragic demise of the cassette tape. Sure, mass-produced cassettes sounded awful compared to vinyl, were prone to jam or get eaten by your tape player, and would wear...(read full post)

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  • Coffin Break fanatic

    While doing some research on Coffin Break, I noticed that a few different web sites note that they held close to their punk rock roots while everyone else in Seatown was growing out their hair, dressing in flannel, and playing grunge. It’s interesting to read this assessment now, because back...(read full post)

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  • The Drills - A Conflict of Interest Post!

    When Lamestain was wearing diapers, we wrote a very moving piece about the early hardcore band, Deranged Diction. In the post, we mentioned how Seattle had a pretty healthy early 80s punk scene, but sadly, few of the bands ever got around to releasing any records. The Fartz, Solger, the...(read full post)

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  • A spooooooky post for Halloween: Mr. Epp and the Calculations

    Although they had a minor underground hit with their “Mohawk Man” single (reaching #1 on Rodney Bingenheimer’s show on KROQ, Rodney on the Rocks), perhaps the most (in-)famous contribution to music from this era made by Mr. Epp and the Calculations derived from a letter Mark McLaughlin (that is, Mark...(read full post)

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  • Vexed: Not Your Typical Seattle Funk-Punk Band!

    I’ll be honest with you, sonny: if there is one thing that makes me want to run to the hills, it’s funk-rock. Sure, I can bust a move to some of the early funk-punk bands, like Liquid Liquid, Medium Medium, and ESG, but after hearing way too many Red Hot...(read full post)

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  • Some updates

    We added several links to other blogs on the sidebar. The two that I’ve been checking the most religiously lately are 10 Things Zine and Thee Head Vein. 10 Things is assembled by Dan Halligan, who used to write a punk rock zine in Seattle called Ten Things Jesus Wants...(read full post)

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