I just spent dispirited snippets of an hour at work refreshing a StubHub tab and struggling with how much I would pay to see the pair of bands who were my reason for being for the better part of the last two decades. They are, Lush and LCD Soundsystem.
Lush’s tranquil and melodic reverb helped define type of pop music (shoegazer) that they’ve struggled to disassociate themselves from since it was coined by a snarky Brit scribe who liked to piss off his contemporaries in the ‘90s—because the ‘90s were good for nothing if not pissing people off and starting a movement without trying. Lead singer/guitarist Miki Berenyi on the genre: The term was coined specifically to dismiss the bands as shit-boring to watch and imply that we couldn’t be bothered to lift our foppish fringes to make the effort to entertain an audience. It was…
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