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Marrying the feedback-drenched sonic assault from the British shoegazer scene using the melodic immediacy of classic pop — a strategy critics dubbed “bubblegrunge” — Velocity Girl surfaced among the most successful and acclaimed indie rock and roll bands of the first ’90s. Their root base lay down in the short-lived …

Past frontwoman of Boston indie pop rings Drop Nineteens, Youngster Wonder, and Hot Fishing rod, not forgetting a sometime person in the Bee Gees tribute music group the Youngster Joys, Paula Kelley is certainly a genuine natural pop auteur who’s not looking for bandmates to verify her considerable abilities. Along …

Washington, D.C.-centered indie pop singer Sarah Shannon was the lead singer and center point for Velocity Girl, whose 3 early-’90s albums, Copacetic, Simpatico, and Gilded Famous actors and Zealous Hearts, reworked the English shoegazer aesthetic right into a distinctly first form. When that music group divide in 1996, Shannon shaped …