From Bruce Pavitt’s SUB POP U.S.A.: The Subterranean Pop Music Anthology, 1980–1988: the crucial union of hometown boys Green River and New York’s Sonic Youth live at the Metro in Seattle on July 10, 1986. Both bands are essential to the rise of Sub Pop, and the product of music documented in Pavitt’s 400-page journey through a decade of American independent bands.
Here is Green River in action one month earlier, and also Sonic Youth, a week later:
