Tag Archives: Jangle Pop

Madison, WI’s Fireplace Town is principally remembered due to the band’s regards to Garbage. Made up of Duke Erikson (vocals, electric guitar), Phil Davis (vocals, electric guitar), and Butch Vig (drums, percussion, support vocals), Fireplace Town’s light, jangly pop given university radio with another dosage of buzzing guitars and folk-rock …

East Community, essentially a duo featuring brothers Martin Kelly and Paul Kelly, stood right out of the drug-infused, rave-obsessed U.K. music picture from the past due ‘80s by championing the ‘60s jangle from the Byrds and early Beatles. In fact formed within the middle-‘80s as Event 4, East Community had …

Essentially a two-man project of Massachusetts natives Kirk Swan and Seth Tiven, having a rotating rhythm section, Dumptruck was, for a short moment, one of the favorites of U.S. university radio within the middle ’80s. They mixed the jangly power pop audio from the Southern option scene with smart lyrics …

Probably the most extensive of singer/songwriter Martin Newell’s various projects, Cleaners from Venus recorded a number of the finest — & most neglected — British pop/rock from the 1980s. The Cleaners’ failing to discover a wider viewers is due a minimum of in part with their unconventional approach to distribution. …

Elevated by his adoptive parents in southern NJ, D.L. Byron (created David Byron) became enamored using the Beatles, the Byrds, and Bob Dylan young. When he wasn’t active getting trashed of the string of exceptional prep academic institutions, Byron formed many teenage garage rings and won several poetry competitions. Choosing …

Among the lesser-known acoustic guitar pop rings to emerge from the fertile Athens, GA, music picture from the 1980s, the Squalls formed in 1981 following vocalist/guitarist Bob Hay and guitarist Ken Starratt’s relocation from Maine. Regular jam periods ultimately yielded a lineup that additionally included bassist Al Walsh and drummer …

Following breakup from the seminal British post-punk dress Swell Maps, frontman Nikki Sudden embarked on a single job, then concurrently produced a new group known as the Jacobites. A lot more classicist than Swell Maps have been, the Jacobites provided Sudden an opportunity to workout his penchant for simple, elegantly …

A longtime fixture from the Bay Area power pop picture, Chris Von Sneidern was among the pop underground’s even more accomplished singer/songwriters, earning a cult following having a string of indie produces through the ’90s. Given birth to in Syracuse, NY, Von Sneidern became a member of a local clothing …

From his tenures using the Sneakers as well as the dB’s on to his subsequent solo tasks, singer/songwriter Chris Stamey continued to be a linchpin from the jangle pop renaissance. Given birth to Dec 6, 1954 in Chapel Hill, NEW YORK, he grew up within the Winston-Salem region, and alongside …

The Dang Trippers were a jangle pop group featuring guitarist/vocalist Devin Hill, guitarist Doug Roberson, and drummer Kenn Goodman. After their lone recording, 1989’s Times Before Channels, Hill started a solo profession.