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While often lumped along with such Southern alternative pop rings as R.E.M. and Let’s Energetic, Guadalcanal Journal was distinctly not the same as its peers, using a sound which was simultaneously melodic and rhythmically intense, along with a decidedly literary and religious bent towards the group’s lyrics. And at the …

Hailing from Bethesda, Maryland, Tommy Keene is really a guitarist and singer/songwriter who all plays and creates melodic guitar-based pop/rock and roll. As a kid, Keene played traditional piano before picking right up electric guitar and drums. He spent his teenage years drumming within a rock and roll trio known …

Copping their name from William S. Burroughs’ euphemism for ejaculations, Thin White colored Rope was founded in Davis, California in 1984. Even though time and host to their development aligned them with both Paisley Underground and origins rock and roll motions, the group quickly staked out its musical place, divining …

The word “cult hero” was practically designed for Anton Barbeau, whose offbeat however tuneful guitar pop bears the stamp of predecessors like XTC and Robyn Hitchcock. In 1994, Anton Barbeau as well as the JoyBoys’ debut record, The Horse’s Tongue, gained the SAMMIE Prize (Sacramento, CA) for Record of the …

Playing sharp, tuneful tracks using a hint of psychedelia plus some complicated melodic angles, the dB’s had been the group that bridged the distance between classic ’70s force pop (described by bands such as for example Big Star, Badfinger, as well as the Scruffs) as well as the jangly brand-new …

Best known because the drummer for power-pop cult favorites Velvet Crush, Ric Menck also recorded an endless group of indie label singles under a number of names like the Springfields and Choo Choo Teach. A indigenous of Champaign, Illinois, through the middle-1980s he shaped his very own label, Picture Reserve, …

Probably one of the most difficult to categorize music artists in rock and roll, R. Stevie Moore is usually a true initial. Bypassing the original recording industry even more thoroughly than simply about any internationally known vocalist/songwriter ever offers, Moore self-released actually thousands of tunes with the R. Stevie Moore …

A vintage power pop music group in the custom from the Raspberries and Big Superstar, Velvet Crush shaped in Rhode Island in 1989, although their root base actually extended western to Champaign, Illinois, where vocalist/bassist Paul Chastain and drummer Ric Menck initial met and began performing jointly. There Menck founded …

After the 3 O’Clock went not really with a bang but with the whimper of 1988’s too-slick-by-half Vermilion, bassist-songwriter-leader Michael Quercio joined his buddy Scott Miller’s band Game Theory in 1990. (Quercio experienced produced Video game Theory’s 1984 EP Distortion, and Miller experienced contributed “THE LADY With your guitar (Says …

Vocalist/songwriter/guitarist Scott Miller was one of the most underrated and oft-overlooked disciples of nice however sinister power pop experts Alex Chilton/Big Celebrity. In the first ’80s, Miller created university radio faves Video game Theory in his hometown of Sacramento, California, liberating four albums (1985’s Actual Nighttime, 1986’s Big Shot Chronicles, …