Tag Archives: American Underground

Detroit’s Negative Strategy, alongside Maumee, OH’s Necros, had been the undisputed champs of Midwestern hardcore in the first to mid-’80s. Tale offers it that vocalist John Brannon recruited drummer OP Moore as well as the acoustic guitar/bass group of Rob and Graham McCulloch in a skate recreation area sometime in …

Inspired just as much by breakfast cereal and kiddie TV as by rock music, punk-pop cult group Redd Kross had been the brainchild of Steve and Jeff McDonald, brothers in the LA suburb of Hawthorne (also residential of the Shore Boys) who started playing music together before either acquired strike …

Among the best-loved rings for the Dischord roster, the country of Ulysses are best remembered for lifting the motor-mouthed groundbreaking rhetoric from the MC5 and blowing it all up to a more elaborate, nearly ridiculous level. Any dialogue of NoU undoubtedly involves rest on the conceptual basis: a relentlessly provocative …

Alongside Hüsker Dü, Nude Raygun was among the 1st U.S. post-punk rings of the first ’80s that merged melodic affects with punk/hardcore. Created during 1981 in Chicago, IL (and mainly inspired by such art-punkers as Cable and Gang of Four), the group included several different people during its ten-year profession, …

Run Westy Work was among the afterwards groups for the thriving Minneapolis post-punk picture. They were under no circumstances quite as well-known or important as cohorts like Hüsker Dü, the Substitutes, and Spirit Asylum, partly since it required them a longer period to develop a unique style of their very …

Out out of all the rings that produced SST Information a towering force within the American underground through the mid-’80s, Meat Puppets lasted the longest, surviving where other rings fell apart. Meats Puppets never really had the devoted pursuing of Hüsker Dü or the Minutemen — two fellow SST rings …

A FRESH York post-punk/noise rock and roll trio led by early Yo La Tengo member Dave Rick, Phantom Tollbooth formed in 1984. Rounding out the lineup had been Gerard Smith on bass and Jon Jackets on drums. They released two EPs (1986’s Phantom Tollbooth EP and 1990’s Daylight within the …

R.E.M. designated the idea when post-punk converted into option rock and roll. When their 1st solitary, “Radio Free European countries,” premiered in 1981, it sparked a back-to-the-garage motion within the American underground. While there have been several hardcore and punk rings within the U.S. through the early ’80s, R.E.M. brought …

Following a demise from the Dead Kennedys within the wake from the financial and emotional disaster which was their 1986 obscenity trial, vocalist and free-speech icon Jello Biafra released a solo job, devoting a few of his produces to spoken phrase observations on American culture and politics among others to …

Despite failing woefully to identical the industrial success or cross-cultural impact of the Athens, Georgia, compatriots R.E.M. as well as the B-52’s, Pylon’s impact over the city’s renowned music scene demonstrated just like pronounced — the group’s propulsive, angular jangle pop audio resonated not merely inside the Athens innovative community, …