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Mr. Mister

A product from the L.A. session-musician community (which also created the harder-rocking Toto), Mr. Mister liked a short but substantial burst of recognition during the middle-’80s, crafting an atmospheric, vaguely intensifying variant on slick, radio-ready pop/rock and roll. While they vanished nearly as quickly because they arrived, their two number …

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Swervedriver

The band who brought the automobile song in to the shoegaze era, Swervedriver were formed in Britain in 1990 by vocalists/guitarists Adam Franklin and Jimmy Hartridge, bassist Adi Vines, and drummer Graham Bonner. Fusing the swirling textures from the shoegazer visual using the even more traditional limitations of pop, the …

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