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Lost in the ’90s: Echobelly
Throughout the ’80s and ’90s, Morrissey made quite of a bit of noise in the music press (this is back when he deigned to speak with them) about bands he had a fondness for
Read More »Lost in the ’90s: MC 900 Ft. Jesus
Years before Eminem fantasized about killing his baby mama, another white rapper was crafting hip-hop joints about killing annoying passersby and setting fire to buildings in the dead of night with orgiastic pyromaniac glee.
Read More »Lost in the ’90s: The Breeders
Here’s one I’ve been saving because … well, I’ve been too lazy to break out the USB turntable. 1994 was a great year for the Breeders. Last Splash had just turned platinum and “Cannonball”
Read More »Lost in the ’90s: Superdrag
Knoxville, Tennessee combo Superdrag’s 1996 major-label debut, Regretfully Yours, will always remind me of driving. Y’see, I was finishing up college at Cleveland State University, which was about a 40-minute drive from my place
Read More »Lost in the ’90s: Riverside
Since we’ve got the Ocean Blue on the brain, we should probably take a look at the band most commonly associated with them to the point of being an almost slavish imitation. Drawing from
Read More »Lost in the ’90s: Space
Let’s get this out there up right up front: I love this song. Space’s 1997 single, “Female of the Species” (download), is one of the funnest songs of the ’90s, with its kitschy steel
Read More »Lost in the ’90s: Echo & the Bunnymen
When Ian McCulloch left Echo & the Bunnymen in 1988 for a solo career, no one really expected the rest of the band to carry on without him, much less attempt to replace him.
Read More »Lost in the ’90s: Monaco
Former New Order bassist Peter Hook has a pretty big set of brass balls. When the band decided to take a break after 1993′s Republic, various members did their own thing — singer Bernard
Read More »Lost in the ’90s: Jawbox
Washington D.C.-based art-punk quartet Jawbox earned the ire of indie purists in 1993 when they left Dischord Records for major-label Atlantic in the Great Post-Nirvana Alternative Rock Swoop-Up. It proved to be not that
Read More »Lost in the ’90s: Possum Dixon
By all rights, L.A.-based Possum Dixon’s second full-length album, 1996′s Star Maps, should have been an unfocused disaster. Band members were beset by serious drug problems and lead singer/songwriter Rob Zabrecky’s wife committed suicide
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