Biography

Greg Sage and his band, the Wipers, were one of the biggest influences on the Pacific Northwest indie-rock scene that exploded with Seattle's grunge movement of the 1990s. Formed in the late '70s and hailing from Portland, Oregon, the Wipers played a dark, brooding style of punk--marked by Sage's innovative near-virtuosic guitar work--that helped define the region's sound. Although criminally overlooked on a commercial level, the fiercely DIY Sage and his band have amassed an impressive list of followers, which includes, among others, Kurt Cobain. Under the Wipers name, and his own, Sage continued to release records into the 2000s.

Top Tracks

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• Alien Boy

• D-7

• Doom Town

• Over The Edge

• Psychic Vampire

• Return Of The Rat

• Romeo

• Taking Too Long

• Youth Of America

Discography

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• Power in One

  Zeno/Nail / Zeno Records

  1999

• The Herd

  Tim Kerr / Tim/Kerr

  1996

• Silver Sail

  Tim Kerr

  1995

• The Circle

  Restless Records

  1988

• Follow Blind

  Restless Records

  1987

• Land of the Lost

  Restless Records

  1986

• Wipers

  Enigma

  1985

• Over the Edge

  1983

• Youth of America

  Restless Records

  1981

• Is This Real?

  Sub Pop

  1980