Best Reunion Concerts of 2011: 1. Confidentials and Thin Man at Dante’s (Portland), April 1 2. Fastbacks at West Seattle Summer Fest, July 8 3. Rats and Stiphnoyds at Star Theater (Portland), November 17 Two Movies You May Have Missed in 2011: 1. The Oregonian (Creepy surrealism from Seattle filmmakers) 2. Take Me Home Tonight …
Music historians rarely mention the Rats except when listing bands that Portland singer/songwriter/guitarist Fred Cole played in before Dead Moon. In fact, the Rose City’s alternative music scene of the early 1980s is mostly regarded as a footnote to the hype generated in Seattle a decade later. When former Dead Moon drummer Andrew Loomis invited …