Biography
Like the Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, and the Jesus & Mary Chain before them, My Bloody Valentine redefined what noise meant within the context of pop songwriting. Led by guitarist Kevin Shields, the group released several EPs in the mid-'80s before recording the era-defining Isn't Anything in 1988, a record that merged lilting, ethereal melodies of the Cocteau Twins with crushingly loud, shimmering distortion. Though My Bloody Valentine rejected rock & roll conventions, … » Read more
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- The Beach Boys
- The Birthday Party
- Cocteau Twins
- The Cramps
- Sonic Youth
- The Velvet Underground
- The Beatles
- The Durutti Column
- Hüsker Dü
- The Kinks
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- Throbbing Gristle
- Wire
- Chrome
- Burt Bacharach
- Brian Eno
- Pink Floyd
- Jimi Hendrix
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- Frank Lenz
- Sweet Trip
- Garbage
- Manitoba
- Pia Fraus
- Autodrone
- Amnesia
- Cranes
- Fennesz
- The Raveonettes
- The Boo Radleys
- Run Run Run
- Chapterhouse
- Giant Drag
- Asobi Seksu
- Amp
- The Swirlies
- Serena Maneesh
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