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Candlebox- You
Candlebox rode the grunge bandwagon to multi-platinum success in the early '90s, despite howls of protest from the Seattle faithful who considered their music a watered-down version of the genuine article. To be sure, Candlebox's take on grunge diluted the punk and indie elements inherent in its original form; instead, they were rooted in the bluesy, classic-style hard rock that grunge had ostensibly replaced. Their resulting commercial appeal made them highly suspect in the minds of authenticity-obsessed scenesters, and it didn't help matters that the band hadn't formed until well after the Seattle hype machine had begun.
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Fastball was formed in 1994
by native Texans Joey Shuffield and Miles
Zuniga along with So-Cal transplant Tony
Scalzo. Originally called Magneto USA, they
were signed in 1995 to
Cracker- Low
During
Cracker's heyday in the 1990s, the
Virginia-based band molded elements of
alternative pop/rock and country into
several irreverent, buzzworthy anthems.
Singer/guitarist
David Lowery made no attempt to mask his
affinity for traditional roots music, but
his own background was far from traditional,
as he spent the '80s fronting the quirky
alternative outfit
Camper Van Beethoven. Shortly after
Camper Van Beethoven embarked on a long
hiatus in 1990,
Lowery began demoing new material with
guitarist
Johnny Hickman and bassist
Davey Faragher. The three musicians
named the project
Cracker
White Town- Your Woman
The "band"
White Town
consists of
Jyoti Mishra,
who writes and records the
music
almost entirely on his own, with occasional
help from other musicians. Although best --
in fact, almost entirely -- known for the
fluke 1997 hit "Your Woman,"
White Town's mix
of musical, political, and social influences
makes
Mishra
one of the more intriguing, although
frustratingly inconsistent, musicians in
'90s
indie
Screaming Trees- Nearly Lost You
Where many of their
Seattle-based contemporaries dealt in
reconstructed
Black Sabbath and
Stooges riffs,
Screaming Trees fused '60s psychedelia
and garage rock with '70s hard rock and '80s
punk. Over the course of their career, their
more abrasive punk roots eventually gave way
to a hard-edged, rootsy psychedelia that
drew from rock and folk equally. After
releasing several albums on indie labels
like SST and Sub Pop,
Screaming Trees moved to Epic Records in
1989. Though they were one of the first
Seattle bands to sign with a major label,
the group never attained the popularity of
fellow Northwestern bands (and friends) like
Nirvana and
Soundgarden
The Cranberrries- Zombie
Combining the melodic jangle
of post-Smiths
indie
guitar
pop with the lilting, trance-inducing sonic
textures of late-'80s dream pop and adding a
slight Celtic tint, the Cranberries became
one of the more successful groups to emerge
from the pre-Britpop U.K. indie scene of the
early '90s. Led by vocalist
Dolores O'Riordan, whose keening,
powerful voice is the most distinctive
element of the group's sound, the group
initially made little impact in the United
Kingdom. It wasn't until the lush ballad
"Linger" became an American hit in 1993 that
the band also achieved mass success in the
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