Prolapse

The year 1993 might not have seemed an auspicious time for new initiatives in post-Sonic Youth noise pop. A motley gaggle of archaeology students and practitioners of experimental drama might not have seemed the people for the job, and English sleaze-rock backwater Leicester was definitely not the place. Somehow, Prolapse made this kind of activity…

Cardigans

Five winsome young Swedish beatniks sharing a house in Malmo and a penchant for wistful melodies with light, sophisticated lounge arrangements: meet the Cardigans. The cherubic Nina Persson’s cool vocals (in English) are matched by the deft instrumental touch of her male colleagues; what they offer is a distance from rock’n’roll, something they cheerfully profess…

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Sleater-Kinney

Formed in Olympia, Washington in 1994 by two Evergreen State College students, guitarist/vocalists Corin Tucker of Heavens to Betsy and Carrie Brownstein of Excuse 17 (listed as Carrie Kinney on the band’s first two records), Sleater-Kinney was originally intended as a side-project, although it wouldn’t be long before the new band became its members’ primary…

Heavenly

Innocence is so inimical to the basic principles of rock’n’roll — the very term is a sexy refutation of unspoiled youth — that bands who hie to it as their creative calling must face an over-under shotgun of culture and nature in their willful resistance to musical and emotional progress. Clinging to a coy, joyful…