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Not to end up being confused using the early-’90s Boston power pop trio from the same name (both rings most likely named after Tom Waits’ pioneering 1985 recording), these Raindogs certainly are a folk-pop group from Vancouver, English Columbia. Created in 1988, the group is usually led by vocalist/songwriter Murray …

Roots-rock quartet the Rave-Ups was shaped in 1980 by frontman Jimmer Podrasky, a Pittsburgh local who founded the group even though studying English in Carnegie-Mellon University. The initial incarnation from the music group briefly relocated to LA before dissolving, prompting Podrasky to come back house and accept employment as a …

Loved by critics as well as the Boston club group circuit, the Raindogs had been prepared to break through for mass consumption. Nevertheless, the group’s root base rock sound hardly ever took off on the nationwide level; it didn’t help that their label turn off after launching their second record. …