WIPERS - Is This Real? TAPE Lo-Fi as their leader cranked up

as their leader cranked up the melodic weirdness

Heartbeat largely moved away from punk into post-punk territory

Kabra was also having to prove himself because of the guitar's Western and Indian popular music associations Chaurasia's problem was the wide popularity of the bansuri -- a bamboo transverse flute -- and his need to establish himself with the instrument

this music and living stuff

with most of the United States sheltering in place

WIPERS - Is This Real? TAPE Lo-Fi as their leader cranked upUnquestionably Portland's most well loved punk group, THE WIPERS formed in the late 1970s and in 1980 released their debut LP, Is This Real? twelve songs of stabbing, jittery guitar, snapped vocals, and unabashed teen angst. Full of desperation and yearning, the LP has stood as a blueprint for wretched youth for over 25 years. In the early 1990s Is This Real? was given mainstream attention when Nirvana covered two tracks off the record and Kurt Cobain