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If they released their first album in 1989, the Boston-based trio Buffalo Tom were written away simply because Dinosaur Jr. junior. Admittedly, their debut was with debt to J Mascis’ thundering electric guitar and folk-tinged music and it didn’t help that Mascis created the record, either. As time passes, Buffalo …

Merging jagged, roaring guitars and stop-start dynamics with melodic pop hooks, intertwining male-female harmonies, and evocative, cryptic lyrics, the Pixies had been one of the most influential American alternative rock and roll bands from the past due ’80s. They weren’t achieved musicians — Dark Francis wailed and bashed out chords …

The prototype bassist and a popular of Charlie Parker’s, Teddy Kotick preferred supporting the frontline and interacting within the rhythm section to displaying his considerable skills on solos. He previously to become prodded in to the limelight by such bandleaders as Costs Evans and Horace Sterling silver, despite his significant …

Acquiring their name from the Syd Barrett song, the effervescent power-pop unit Gigolo Aunts first arrived together in 1981 in Potsdam, NY as Sniper. The group — made up of vocalist/guitarist Dave Gibbs, brothers Phil and Steve Hurley (on lead acoustic guitar and bass, respectively) and drummer Phil Brouwer — …

The Lemonheads’ evolution from post-Hüsker Dü hardcore punk rockers to teenage heartthrobs is among the strangest sagas in alternative music. Primarily, the group was a punk-pop trio shaped by three teenage Boston suburbanites, but over time, the music group became a car for Evan Dando. Blessed with visual appearance along …

Though criminally overlooked within their very own lifetime, Galaxie 500 afterwards emerged among the pivotal underground sets of the post-punk era; dreamy and enigmatic, their minimalist dirges presaged the rise of both shoegaze and slowcore actions from the 1990s. The group produced in Boston, Massachusetts in 1986 and comprised vocalist/guitarist …

While Blake Babies made many engaging information in the later ’80s and early ’90s, they hardly ever broke from the collegiate rock and roll circles where these were adored. It wasn’t until 1992 that their head, Juliana Hatfield, started getting recognition being a songwriter in even more mainstream magazines, but …