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Black Box Recorder Black Box Recorder included Auteurs main man Luke Haines, former Jesus and Mary Chain member John Moore, and vocalist Sarah Nixey. Like the...
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Blur Initially, Blur was one of the multitude of British bands who appeared in the wake of the Stone Roses, mining the same swirling,...
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Cousteau Cousteau debuted in 1999 with a self-released, eponymous effort showcasing their chocolate-smooth mix of Bacharach-style songwriting with...
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PJ Harvey During the early-'90s alternative rock explosion, several female singer/songwriters rose to prominence, but few were as distinctive or as widely...
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The London Suede Suede kick started the Britpop revolution of the '90s, bringing English indie pop/rock music away from the swirling layers of shoegazing and...
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Oasis Oasis shot from obscurity to stardom in 1994, becoming one of Britain's most popular and critically acclaimed bands of the decade in the process....
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Pet Shop Boys Postmodern ironists cloaked behind a veil of buoyantly melodic and lushly romantic synth pop confections, Pet Shop Boys' cheeky, smart, and...
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Radiohead Radiohead was one of the few alternative bands of the early '90s to draw heavily from the grandiose arena rock that characterized U2's early...
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Saint Etienne Like most bands formed by former music journalists, Saint Etienne were a highly conceptual group. The trio's concept was to fuse the British pop...
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Spiritualized Formed from the ashes of the trance-rockers Spacemen 3, singer/guitarist Jason Pierce's group Spiritualized did not break away from his prior...
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Stereolab Combining an inclination for melodic '60s pop with an art rock aesthetic borrowed from Krautrock bands like Faust and Neu!, Stereolab were one of...
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Stereo Total Though they're based in Berlin, the witty pop group Stereo Total draw bandmembers and musical influences from across Europe....
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Supergrass Like many other British bands of the '90s, Supergrass' musical roots lie in the infectiously catchy punk-pop of the Buzzcocks and the Jam, as well...
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Tindersticks Tindersticks were one of the most original and distinctive British acts of the '90s, standing apart from both the British indie scene and the rash...
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The Verve Long acclaimed as one of the most innovative and spellbinding bands on the contemporary British pop scene, the Verve finally broke through to a...
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David Bowie The cliché about David Bowie says he's a musical chameleon, adapting himself according to fashion and trends. While such a criticism is too glib,...
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Elbow Injecting a wider range of emotions into their music than most of their guitar-based peers in England, Elbow referred to themselves as "prog...
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Maximo Park Maximo Park seem to come from the strong tradition of British social realism, of the kind embodied in Sixties black and white films by Alan Bates...
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