Naomi Punk

With a style that defines the sound of the Pacific Northwest as much as it reconfigures it, Washington State trio Naomi Punk began as the solo project of Travis Coster and grew to include Neil Gregerson and Nicolas Luempert. Via self-released CD-Rs and cassettes, the Olympia- and Seattle-based band developed a sound inspired by grunge and its forebears -- at any given moment, shades of the Wipers, Beat Happening, and Nirvana can be heard in their heavy yet free-flowing music -- and released their self-titled official debut album in 2009. Over the next couple of years, the band...