You likely know about Brian Bethke’s EP release of “I’ll Be OK” in 2022 (Volume One reported on it in December of that year). Now, Bethke is releasing a new remastered version of I’ll Be OK, which includes three new tracks. The best part? Bethke is releasing .
In 1983, the Seattle band Bam Bam, fronted by a talented, elegant Black woman named Tina Bell, created a sound and lyrical foundation for a genre white men with knit hats and plaid shirts would later make famous as "grunge." Bell was backed by husband Tommy Martin and lifelong friend Scott Ledgerwood (“Scotty Buttocks”). Jen B. Larson digs deep into the archives to give Tina Bell, who died in 2012, her props as the uncrowned "Queen of Grunge."