The Sonics
Tacoma's Sonics played garage rock like they were trying to break their own equipment, screaming through overdriven amps and pounding pianos with a violence that punk would later claim as its birthright. "The Witch" and "Psycho" sound feral even six decades on. Critics now routinely call them a missing link between fifties rock and roll and punk.
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we haven’t charted The Sonics yet
this stretch of the river isn’t mapped. we trace the watershed one artist at a time — and we’re always heading further upstream.