May/June 2009 
SONIC BOOM: THE HISTORY OF NORTHWEST ROCK FROM “LOUIE LOUIE” TO “SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT” > By Peter Blecha / GRUNGE IS DEAD: THE ORAL HISTORY OF SEATTLE ROCK MUSIC > By Greg Prato(0)
April 30, 2009
While the outside world didn’t know much about the Pacific Northwest music scene until the grunge explosion of the early ‘90s, these two books illustrate how the Northwest—and not just Seattle—had been rockin’ along years before Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, et al. arrived.