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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...band would be Beckphish. But that would detract from the fact that this is a genuinely original band that plays better live than on tape. The almost two hour set included all the songs off their touted debut, Irresistible Bliss and a few knucklers thrown in by lead singer M. Doughty...

Author: By Khoa Le, | Title: If You're White Bread And You Know It, Cough! | 10/24/1996 | See Source »

...Life" drew the applause and whistles of many slightly older members of the crowd. Songs like "Super Bon Bon" with its wicked uptempo chorus forced many others and me into that head-nodding-and-shaking-back-and-forth motion. Doughty's onstage mannerisms mimic Rage lead singer Zack De La Rocha, and if the lyrics were about some abused people somewhere, I wouldn't have noticed the difference...

Author: By Khoa Le, | Title: If You're White Bread And You Know It, Cough! | 10/24/1996 | See Source »

...rock stars have fretted more about the fallout of such instant success than Adam Duritz, the Crows' lead singer and chief songwriter. "I couldn't go out. I couldn't go to bars. Everybody had to give their opinion of me," he recalls. Once, he says, "for seven days in a row, someone walked up to me on the street and said something shitty. Just out of the blue, people I didn't know. 'Hey--are you Adam Duritz?' 'Yeah.' 'You're in Counting Crows?' 'Yeah.' 'Man, you ought to be counting your blessings. You guys suck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: FIRST-CLASS FLYERS | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

...Since other African-Americans had been marshals individually before, it wasn't seen as that big of a deal," said Stewart, now a corporate lawyer in New York City. "I was involved in student government, and Fiona was a singer; so a lot of people knew...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: Marshals Say Race Not Issue | 10/16/1996 | See Source »

...there anything left to say about Nirvana? The punk-rock trio, which helped define the sound of alternative rock before disbanding after the 1994 suicide of its lead singer, Kurt Cobain, has been written about, figuratively speaking, to death. In the liner notes to Nirvana's newly released live CD, From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah, bassist Krist Novoselic even declares, "Let all the analysis fall away like yellow, aged newsprint." If it were that easy, would O.J. still be in the news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: LAST BLAST | 10/14/1996 | See Source »

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