My favorite band of the 90s was an amazing Seattle outfit called Flake. Here’s how I described their music in a bio at the time: “If Grunge was the sound of America eating it’s young, then Seattle’s post-grunge trio, Flake, is a fitting digestif: thick and heady, charcoal mellowed and ready for consumption by an …
Since you asked, here’s what the Flake music was based on. My technique was born of people always breaking the strings on the guitars that were lying around. I always struggled to play and sing standard 6-string at the same time -which kept me from fronting my own band, or performing “live”. My good friend …
This is an incredibly good ’87-’96 tribute: Pixies, Posies, Replacements, Nirvana, Weezer, Matthew Sweet, the theme to “That 70s Show,” and (my favorite Seattle band of the era) Flake, all in a single song. What’s more, the official music video, below, is packed with dozens of smile-inducing visual homages to ’90s slacker film and TV. …
Seattle-based songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist Rawb Middleton is back and has released two excellent EPs in the last year: Cracker From the Black Lagoon and The Cure for Tired Blood. I have always said that Rawb–he went by “Rob” back in the day and has updated his nom de guerre to distinguish himself from other …
Thanks to Ron Swanson for this: