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The Lemonheads
From their roots as a snotty Boston punk band in the mid-1980s to their status as media darlings in the early-'90s, the Lemonheads always revolved around frontman Evan Dando. With his movie-star looks and much-publicized love of drugs and booze, Dand…
Belly
Based in Newport, Rhode Island, USA, Belly was the brainchild of the mercurial Tanya Donelly (b. 14 July 1966, Newport, Rhode Island, USA; vocals/guitar). Donelly, along with half-sister Kristin Hersh, was a founding member of Throwing Muses. She was…
The Pixies
Led by Black Francis (AKA Charles Thompson), this Boston band reveled in the raw, loud energy of punk, but harnessed it in service of catchy melodies laced with bizarre lyrics. Their 1989 album, DOOLITTLE, is widely considered to be one of the best a…
Juliana Hatfield
b. 2 July 1967, Duxbury, Massachusetts, USA. Formerly with the Blake Babies, Hatfield is a singer-songwriter and guitarist who became a favourite of the early 90s indie media through her on-off liaisons with the Lemonheads' Evan Dando, her self-profe…
Buffalo Tom
Buffalo Tom were one of the sturdiest bands of the Massachusetts college rock scene of the late 1980s and early '90s. Offering a sound that encompassed the main sonic aspects of nearly the whole of alternative and underground rock during the era--jan…
Throwing Muses
The spacey, jangly dual-vocal/dual-guitar attack of Boston-via-Providence's Throwing Muses helped define the American college rock sound of the 1980s. Step-sisters Tanya Donnelly and Kristin Hersh would continue to craft their smart, quirky, guitar-d…
