Paul Weller (born John William Weller on 25 May 1958) found his voice early, bellowing rock ‘n’ roll covers in working men’s clubs as a…
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Pavement were three friends from California: laconic singer Stephen Malkmus, guitarist Scott Kannberg, and unruly hippie drummer Gary Young, who would hand out free cabbages…
Edward Louis Severson III was born in Evanston, a northern suburb of Chicago, on 23 December 1966. The eldest of four stepbrothers, he would not…
Under their own steam Pendragon released half a dozen albums between 1985 (The Jewel) and 2001 (Not Of This World). Their first two albums offered…
Having dropped out of the University of Massachusetts while on a college exchange program, Frank Black (real name Charles Michael Kitteridge Thompson IV) teamed up…
This American band was formed by Frank Orrall in Hawaii in 1984. The band relocated to Austin, Texas, in 1988, where they recorded 2 EPs…
This irreverent quartet from Stourbridge in the West Midlands, with a style best described as hardcore pop with psychedelic and metal overtones, began gigging around…
Pop star provocateur and entrepreneur Perry Farrell (real name Bernstein) started Jane’s Addiction in Los Angeles in 1986, dissolving the band shortly after 1990s Ritual de…
Formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1993, The Presidents of the United States of America became a massive fixture of the 1990s post-grunge era by intentionally…
Originally a guitar pop band formed by early Jesus & Mary Chain drummer Bobby Gillespie, Primal Scream got harder, wilder and heavier as the decade wore on,…
The Prodigy seemed like just more hood rats in the 1990s at a time when white Brits took so many drugs that they believed they…
This Sheffield (Yorkshire) band formed in 1978 at The City School and played their first public gig at Rotherham Arts Centre in July 1980. In…
Canadian band The Pursuit of Happiness was formed in 1985 by frontman Moe Berg and drummer Dave Gilby, who were soon joined by bassist Johnny…
In Athens, Georgia (USA), Michael Stipe and Peter Buck met in 1978 in the record store where Buck worked and discovered they shared an interest…
Formed while attending school in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in 1985 – originally using the name ‘On a Friday’ – Radiohead changed their name after signing with…
The Red Hot Chili Peppers came together in Los Angeles in 1983, formed by high school friends Anthony Kiedis and Michael ‘Flea’ Balzary. The naughty…
Barely teenagers at the time, Redd Kross was one of the first bands in So Cal to pick up guitars and lash out at their…
Formed in Brisbane, Queensland, in 1993, Australian band Regurgitator (affectionately known by their fans as “The ‘Gurge”) became famous for their witty, genre-mashing collision of…
Danny Wilde had been pursuing a solo career for five years and Phil Solem had been trying to get his own band off the ground.…
Back in the early 1990s, there was a joke in the UK music papers that referred to an imaginary indie band called Slowdriveride – an…