Roadside Monument, 15 Years And 2,700 Miles Later, Reunite A Lost Seattle
A different strain of the '90s Seattle music scene packed into a basement to see the ballistic math-rock band get back together for just one night.
It took a few songs for them to lock in. "We'd like to dedicate this entire set to the memory of ," guitarist and primary vocalist Doug Lorig said, referencing a Seattle guitarist who died of cancer in 2008 and played in punk bands like Ninety Pound Wuss and the wildly destructive Raft Of Dead Monkeys, all of whom shared members (at one point or another) with Roadside Monument. It immediately reinforced the tone of the evening, channeling a beloved friend who had connected so many of Seattle's punk satellites. And in Barboza, a basement venue in the record store and bar-lined Capitol Hill neighborhood, an old scene realigned for a show which I'd
