Depending on which source you believe, we are either approaching or have just passed the official 30th anniversary of the release of Nervous Sooner Changes, the all-killer-no-filler seventh studio album from Portland punk legends Dead Moon.

Crammed front to back with the band’s signature mix of wild-eyed garage-rock and desperatly doomed-folk ballads, the 10-track release is generally considered a high point in the Dead Moon catalog. “Pflichtstoff,” declared the long-running German music magazine Ox-Fanzine in 1996. Translation: “A must-have.”

Not that bassist Toody Cole remembers making it...

“Oh god, it was probably another rush job, because we always used to have to get everything done before the next tour,” she said from her home in Clackamas, Oregon. “I mean, they all kind of blend

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