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Sub Pop: Go Forth And Grunge

Martin Aston, Q, October 1992

SEATTLE, IN the top left-hand corner of America, is famous for its once-thriving post-war aerospace industry, for its breweries and coffee, pine forests and clean air, for Jimi Hendrix – and rain. And rock'n'roll, as Bono recently announced from a Seattle stage, likes rainy cities.

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