Word: britpop
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...Whew. From punk-pop to Britpop to hard rock to hip-hop. And that's not even the half of it. Time to get moving to a ticket agents...
...Saturday, the Push Stars turn up, while Elastica (led by the inimitably cool Justine Frischmann, left), perhaps the best of the groups of the so-called Britpop invasion of the mid-'90s, will perform at Avalon. (Incidentally, the version of Trio's '80s hit "Da Da Da" that closes The Menace, Elastica's latest album, is pure genius...
...episode of VH1's Behind the Music. In 1995, Elastica's self-titled debut CD topped the British charts with a caustic but catchy blend of late '70s new wave and '90s pop. Front woman Justine Frischmann's romantic relationship with Damon Albarn, the lead singer for the Britpop band Blur, attracted even more attention in the British press. Then Elastica's single Connection became a big hit in the U.S., and the album eventually sold a million copies worldwide...
Carnival 2000, by Britpop group Prefab Sprout, was the music I chose for my sound track. It clocks in at less than 4 min.--short enough, I thought, for me to go mad with tons of MTV-style quick cuts spliced together with the professional-looking transitions (such as fade-in and cross-dissolve) that iMovie provides...