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Just like the Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, as well as the Jesus and Mary Chain before them, My Bloody Valentine redefined what sound meant inside the context of pop songwriting. Led by guitarist Kevin Shields, the group released many EPs in the middle-’80s before documenting the era-defining Isn’t Anything in …

Ireland’s Hothouse Plants made a name for itself through the late ’80s and early ’90s with a separate, bombastic fusion of rock and roll & roll using the rootsy noises of Irish folk and American gospel. The group was founded like a Dublin street-performance take action called the Matchless Benzini …