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C'mon, Let's Go: Girlschool rips through tour, set to unleash 'Guilty As Sin'
Girlschool's Kim McAuliffe. (All Cat Rose photos)Andy, text; Cat Rose, photosGetting down and dirty, and cranking out a plethora of raw, back-to-basics anthems.That's what Kim McAuliffe and her hard...
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Crucified Barbara: Nailed to the music by way of seminal Seattle bands
Crucified Barbara's Mia Coldheart, front, and drummer Nicky Wicked. (All Cat Rose photos)Klara Force.Andy, text; Cat Rose, photosCrucified Barbara journeyed thousands of miles from their homeland of...
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Breakfast drinks and tunes with Mudhoney
Mark Arm leans into it at the Rock n' Roll Marathon in Seattle. (All Cat Rose photos)Andy, text; Cat Rose, photosIt was early morning action for the TSHIT staff on Saturday.When rock n' roll calls, you...
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Merge to reissue Seaweed’s 'Actions and Indications' on vinyl
Seaweed in action last year in Seattle. (Cat Rose photos)From the good folks at Merge:On July 31, Merge will reissue Seaweed’s fifth and final full-length album, "Actions and Indications." Originally...
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Cockney Rejects bring East End ruck to Seattle
Jeff and Mick Geggus kick it into gear in Seattle. (All Andy photos except where noted.)By AndyThirty years later, and it finally happened.It was time to ruck with the Cockney Rejects.In August of...
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Support Eddie Spaghetti's Cancer Fight Fund
Supersuckers' Eddie Spaghetti at the Tractor Tavern in Seattle. Below, Spaghetti with "Metal" Marty Chandler and Christopher "Chango" Von Streicher. (All Cat Rose photos)Out of the gate, the...
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Two Cow Garage: Stage-stomping, ear-bleeding, mind-opening rock and roll
Shane Sweeney stomps it out with Two Cow Garage; bottom, Micah Schnabel and Sweeney sing it . (All Cat Rose photos)Text, Andy; Photos, Cat RoseA few years ago, my cousin Eric proclaimed in a Facebook...
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33 years later, Ian MacKaye and others revisit classic gig that featured Dead...
Minor Threat rages at Alpine Village. (Glen E. Friedman photo, used with permission. Order his "My Rules" book from Amazon at www.tinyurl.com/o7j74v6 )By AndyI've written about this gig before, but it...
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TBMT (Throwback Minor Threat) .... epic gig artifacts from July 9, 1982
Minor Threat setlist on a page of the San Diego Union.Andy and Mike Paul road-tripped it to San Diego on July 9, 1982 for a pretty OK show with Minor Threat, Husker Du, Battalion of Saints and Men of...
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Help Billy Zoom Kick Cancer's Butt
Billy Zoom. (Cat Rose photo)X guitarist Billy Zoom has been diagnosed with bladder cancer.The 67-year-old will perform with the band during its 4-Album Show at The Observatory in Orange County through...
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Everything falls into place: Dad drives soccer punk to Husker Du gig
Flyer from the There's Something Hard in There archive.By AndyHusker Dad, we'll call it.So, when I was a junior in high school, I played varsity soccer for Bishop Montgomery and we had a match the...
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Remembering The Ruts' Malcolm Owen
The Ruts -- Malcolm Owen, second from right. (Virgin Records publicity photo).Gotta love The Ruts.The intense vocals, the guitar, the punk, the rock, the reggae, the dub .... it's all insanely stellar....
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#adolescentsweirdos 2015
Weirdos, top, Adolescents below. (All Cat Rose photos)A Dangerhouse on fire.That was the scene on Wednesday night when the Adolescents and the Weirdos headlined a raucous punk affair at El Corazon in...
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Fu Manchu: Kings of the Road storm Seattle
Fu Manchu's Scott Hill and Bob Balch rip Seattle a new one. (ALL CAT ROSE PHOTOS)By Bill TuckThis was my third time seeing Fu Manchu in the last three years, first time in Seattle.Holy shit!They...
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True inspiration: Stiff Little Fingers give fans a boost
Stiff Little Fingers in Seattle: Jake Burns, top, Ali McMordie below. (ALL ANDY PHOTOS)(The following piece flowed easily after being inspired by Stiff Little Fingers' raucous gig last Saturday at El...
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Black Breath ready to rage with new LP 'Slaves Beyond Death' on Southern Lord...
Black Breath's Elijah Nelson. (Cat Rose photo)So, who's up for another blistering, eye-gouging round of tuneage from Black Breath?Fists and Pabst tall-boys raised in unison, right?Well, come Sept. 25,...
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Seattle's old G-Note Tavern: Rock n' roll and then some
Rock n' roll, dancing, brawling and AA meetings once took place here. (Andy photo)By AndySometimes, when you're lounging at a barbecue where rock 'n roll is the main subject bandied about, you snag a...
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Bl'ast! fires up new tunes, blood-red 7-inch on the way
Mike Neider,left, and Clifford Dinsmore of Bl'ast! (Cat Rose photo)By AndyBl'ast! into NOW.It's been 26 years since Mike Neider and Clifford Dinsmore -- wild-eyed architects of guitar riffage and...
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An interview with Alice Bag | Los Angeles Beat
Alice Bag performs in Seattle in 2012. (Andy photo)This article originally appeared in the Los Angeles Beat on June 23, 2015.By Bob LeeIn the earliest years of LA’s punk scene, Alice Bag was one of its...
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