Y’all. Every issue of PNW indie music magazine The Rocket (1979 — 2000) is now available in full, online, for free. This is an absolute time capsule for grunge fans. In the June 1986 issue (published when I was one whole week old!) I found a review of the Deep Six compilation EP. All issues are available at https://washingtondigitalnewspapers.org/?a=cl&cl=CL1&sp=RCT&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
“We’ve always been this weird island. We were considered grunge but somehow, in history, we’re not in that gang. We’re not Riot Grrrl. We’re not that gang. It’s weird. We were always our own thing. And all the stuff going down in the academic record, we’re not in there” — Donita Sparks.