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 “To me, it wasn’t a record about death. That was missing the point. It was about life,” Mark Oliver ‘E’ Everett Electro-Shock Blues ought to be a miserable record. Its author, already demoralized by the “bullshit, record-selling-money-hungry world” introduced by the popularity of the... Eels
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 The summer of 1997 was a funny, mixed up time for British music. Girl power, already irking, was approaching its first anniversary while U2's Popmart tour was trotting the globe in predictably over-the-top manner. Britpop was being served its last rites but not before its glorious Indian summer... Super Extra Bonus Party
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 As one half of 80's psychedelic drone-rock duo Spacemen 3, Jason Pierce was never one to be coy about his musical aims, or love of pharmaceuticals: the band's famous motto was "taking drugs to make music to take drugs to". After their demise, Pierce (keeping the appropriate name of J. Spaceman)... Spiritualized
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 The moment the ‘smart Nirvana’ showed they were just too smart... "After Crooked Rain, we probably could’ve written our own ticket," Stephen Malkmus said of Pavement’s transition from album number two to three. With a couple of indie hits (Gold Soundz/ Cut Your Hair) and momentum growing... Pavement
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