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The Pernice Brothers

Formed following the 1997 breakup of singer/songwriter Joe Pernice’s alt-country group the Scud Hill Boys, the Pernice Brothers do an about-face in the lush ’70s country sound of the final album, Massachusetts, and developed the lush orchestrated pop of 1998’s Overcome By Happiness. Documented for Sub Pop, the record highlighted …

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The Contrast

Hailing through the comparatively tiny British Midlands city of Peterborough (roughly halfway between Birmingham and Cambridge), the Compare are an unpretentious guitar pop group comparable to the Dentists along with other ’80s U.K. indie acoustic guitar bands, albeit having a more powerful debt to past due ’70s new influx acts …

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