Originally called The Bottlegarden, The Bluetones formed in Hounslow, London in 1994. In 1995, they released two singles, Are You Blue or Are You Blind?…
Browsing: Music – 1990s
Formed in London in 1988 via Colchester, Essex, Blur (initially called ‘Seymour’) started on the lower rungs of the gig circuit. Within a year they…
Five years after forming as shoegaze wannabes in 1988, The Boo Radleys issued their third album, Giant Steps (1993), which took them into the Top 20 and…
Boston leader and guitarist Tom Scholz got a masters degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked as a researcher and product…
The 80s had seen the New Jack Swing sound of R&B acts like New Edition and Keith Sweat sell massively, but it took Boyz II…
Father and Son was Boyzone’s closest brush with #1 to date when it hit the charts at the end of 1995. 18-year-old Ronan Keating sang lead…
Formed in 1990 when Kim Deal was still the bassist for The Pixies, The Breeders gave her an outlet to play the guitar and write…
Always a little bit different, Leeds band The Bridewell Taxis (named after the slang term for a police van) featured a trombone player and were…
On record, The Cardigans followed in the exalted Swedish rock & roll tradition of fellow countrymen ABBA: bubbly smooth Euro-pop buoyed by the breathy vocals…
Formed in South London, Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine began in 1987. Guitarist Fruitbat (born Les Carter) and singer Jim Bob (born James Morrison), then…
Cast was formed in Liverpool in 1992 by John Power after he left The La’s. Emerging from the Britpop movement of the mid-1990s, Cast signed…
Welsh band Catatonia mastered the art of the perfect hook on their third album (Equally Cursed and Blessed) with the addictive She’s a Millionaire. Rolling Stone described…
The Charlatans came into existence after Jon Baker and Martin Blunt (ex-Makin’ Time) were crushed between Morrissey and Marr’s monitors at a Smiths gig in the 80s.…
Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons first met at Manchester University, bonding over a shared love of old-school Hip Hop and My Bloody Valentine. The duo…
Brothers Garry and Russell Christian – formerly an a cappella soul trio with Roger, another sibling from their family of 11 – and ex-Yachts and…
Chumbawamba formed in the early 1980s and were closely allied with anarcho-punk collective Crass (their first release was a track on the Crass Records compilation Bullshit…
In the late 80s, Cinderella had triple-platinum hits in the US with debut album Night Songs (1986) and follow-up Long Cold Winter (1988). Night Songs was released a year after the…
Australian indie band, The Clouds, was formed in Sydney in December 1989 around Jodi Phillis (guitar and vocals) and Patricia “Trish” Young (bass and vocals).…
Formed in San Francisco in 1991, Counting Crows released their Van Morrison-inspired tunes on the multiplatinum-selling debut album August and Everything After on DGC in…
On their first (and best) album, the earnest, Celtic-tinged shimmer of The Cranberries struck the ear as almost trance music, powered by Dolores O’Riordan’s honeyed…
