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Lilys
An ever-morphing vehicle for songwriter and sole consistent member Kurt Heasley, Lilys have swung wildly between genre and sound in different phases of their career. Moving rapidly through bandmembers, home bases, and musical fixations, Heasley took the Lilys through adventurously overdriven shoegaze on their 1992 debut In the Presence of Nothing before taking a sharp turn toward Kinks-indebted mod pop on 1996’s Better Can’t Make Your Life Better…
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Good Morning
Keeping the spirit of lo-fi experimental bedroom pop of the 1990s alive, Australian duo Good Morning show the influence of pioneers like Smog and Sebadoh and add in the closer-to-home indie pop sounds of Flying Nun to sweeten the deal. Their early singles shifted from scruffy noise pop to more sophisticated ballads, but by the time of 2018’s Prize // Reward, they had settled into a homecooked, barely together approach. The two records the band issued in 2019 showed off Good Morning’s sparkling indie rock bona fides…
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Mary Wells
Time and legions of other soul superstars have obscured the fact that for a brief moment, Mary Wells was Motown’s biggest star. She came to the attention of Berry Gordy as a 17-year-old, hawking a song she’d written for Jackie Wilson; that song, “Bye Bye Baby,” became her first Motown hit in 1961. The full-throated approach of that single was quickly toned down in favor of a pop-soul sound. Few other soul singers managed to be as shy and sexy at the same time as Wells…
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Denim
Given Lawrence Hayward’s frequent disputes with his bandmates during the decade-long run of his first and best-known band Felt, it came as little surprise that for his next project, he was not merely the uncontested leader, but the sole constant member. Denim was not a band in the traditional sense; instead, Hayward worked with a revolving cast of musicians for Denim’s various studio projects and live appearances…
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Dressy Bessy
Centered around singer/guitarist Tammy Ealom’s angular melodies, Denver indie pop band Dressy Bessy emerged in the late ’90s and stuck to their colorful, dreamy rock sound as they rode the waves of the next several decades. Loosely affiliated with the Elephant 6 collective, the band represented the more streamlined pop side of a group known best for outsider perspectives…
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Cosmic Psychos
One of the most notorious Australian pub rock bands, Cosmic Psychos play beer-fueled, garage-accented, heavy-hitting punk rock with no frills and no pretensions. Officially beginning their journey together in 1985, the Psychos gained a reputation for not caring about money as much as the free beer, laughs, and occasional overseas traveling involved with being in a rock band.
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Jeb Loy Nichols
Jeb Loy Nichols is an American-born expatriate singer, songwriter, musician, artist, and novelist living in Wales. With an instantly recognizable, dusky tenor singing voice, he pursues a mercurial musical muse that guides him through writing and recording original songs that combine elements of blue-eyed soul, Americana, reggae, and blues. Between 1990 and 1994, he led country-reggae outfit the Fellow Travellers, whose four albums were the first to showcase his hybridized style…
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Henry Badowski
Henry Badowski is a British multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and composer, who was a member of several punk rock bands in the 1970s before embarking on a solo career. Badowski’s apprenticeship started in several UK bands including Norman Hounds and the Baskervilles, Lick It Dry and the New Rockets. Badowski joined his friend, guitarist James Stevenson, in Gene October’s Chelsea as bassist in March 1977…
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The Blackeyed Susans
Formed in Perth, Australia, in early 1989, the countrified alternative rock of the Blackeyed Susans gained a U.S. domestic release by the mid-’90s, when American Records signed the band to a contract. The first lineup of the band — vocalist/guitarist Rob Snarski, vocalist/guitarist David McComb (formerly of the Triffids), drummer Alsy McDonald (also ex-the Triffids), bassist Phil Kakulas, and organist Ross Bolleter — released the EP Some Births Are Worse Than Murders in 1990 on Waterfront Records. The record topped the Australian indie charts, and earned positive reviews …
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The Nolans
The Nolans were an Anglo-Irish girl group who formed in Blackpool in 1974 as the Nolan Sisters, before changing their name in 1980. From 1979 to 1982, the group had a run of hits, including “I’m in the Mood for Dancing”, “Gotta Pull Myself Together”, “Who’s Gonna Rock You”, “Attention to Me” and “Chemistry”. They are one of the world’s biggest selling girl groups…
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