Rain / Rising
1988 · Hard Rock · Lollipop Record
Japan · 7DR41
Seattle Grunge
Heavy riffs played by people raised on punk, recorded cheap in the Pacific Northwest and then sold worldwide.
Detroit Proto-Punk
Pull this thread and you get Michigan guitar noise from 1969 ballrooms to 1999 basements, unbroken.
Masanori Fujiwara
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