Lotus Eaters

They weren’t New Romantic, but they were certainly romantic. The Lotus Eaters were an integral part of Liverpool’s second wave of post-punk youth, arriving a few years after Echo & the Bunnymen and The Teardrop Explodes unleashed a psychedelic revival in the Beatles’ hometown. Fresh-faced and fragile, the Lotus Eaters formed in 1982, essentially the…

Famous

Bridging the gap between classic country and punk rock is no longer a radical idea; X and Social Distortion long ago proved that both genres have more in common than purists of either style would care to admit. Formed in San Francisco in 2003 by vocalist-guitarist-percussionist Laurence Scott and guitarist-bassist Victor Barclay, the Famous (not…