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…
Browsing: Music – 1990s
Hailing from Rochester, New York, The Chesterfield Kings (named after a brand of unfiltered cigarette) began as a retro 1960s-inspired garage band evoking the sounds…
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 their debut album Night Songs (1986) and follow-up, Long Cold Winter (1988). Night Songs was released…
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 London in 1997, having met at University College London (UCL), Coldplay became the most-played British group of the 21st century. Their debut album…
The Corr siblings first officially banded together in 1991 to try out for roles in Alan Parker’s musical comedy/drama film The Commitments. All four won…
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…
Formed in 1990 in Limerick, Ireland, The Cranberries rose to fame with their first (and best) album when their earnest, Celtic-tinged shimmer struck the ear…
This Canadian band evolved from a Winnipeg bar band called Bad Brad Roberts and the St. James Rhythm Pigs. Possessed of a highly-distinctive bass-baritone voice, vocalist/guitarist…
Garage punk band Crazyhead formed in 1986 in Leicester, England, and the music press almost immediately lumped them under the banner of ‘grebo rock’. The…
Neil Finn – a native of Te Awamutu, a small town in the volcanic region of New Zealand – decided to form what would become…
A Leeds band who specialised in absurdist takes on pop classics and po-faced indie styles with a groovy funk backbeat. They released a Peel Session in 1988…
This contrived but fun pop-punk outfit suddenly appeared on the UK independent scene in the early 90s with their debut EP LoveSickPleasure, which shot into the…
The Dandy Warhols formed in 1994 in Portland, Oregon. Gigs involving heavy drinking, fighting, and striptease by various band members (with Ms McCabe’s most eagerly…
Although they generated reams of coverage in the late-80s weekly music press, Newport’s Darling Buds never became the mainstream sensation that their jaunty guitar pop…
Scottish band Deacon Blue were named after the track Deacon Blues from Steely Dan’s 1977 album, Aja. Frontman Ricky Ross (a youth worker by profession) had been submitting demo…
Both of Anglo-Irish descent, Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry met in Melbourne, Australia in 1980 (the duo worked in a Lebanese restaurant together in East…
Def Leppard formed in Sheffield, England in 1977 as Atomic Mass with original members Rick Savage, Pete Willis and Tony Kenning. Frontman Joe Elliot came…