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Pop / Rock
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| Descriptive "tags": |
indie rock • indie • rock • american • favourites • pop-punk • hip • 90s alternative • jeremy macro somgs • all-male bands • pisda kak kruto • post grunge - punk pop
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| Decades Active: |
1990s
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| Links online: |
Wikipedia
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Biography
From the ‘coffee house scene’ of Los Angeles, California, USA, and named after a fugitive spotted on the US television programme America’s Most Wanted, Possum Dixon earned a good deal of international support based on their rangy, expressive musicianship and lyrics, and were compared to the Talking Heads, XTC and the Violent Femmes. Robert Zabrecky (vocals/bass) helped set up the Jabber Jaw club in the late 80s, which showcased local bands, as well as an unannounced Nirvana gig. Recruiting band members from this scene, Robert O’Sullivan (guitar/keyboards), Celso Chavez (guitar), and Byron Reynolds (drums), Zabrecky started to assemble the band and they released three independent singles. They eventually signed a recording contract with Interscope Records, releasing their self-titled debut album in 1993. Zabrecky described their music thus: ‘There’s a side that’s experimental music, a stream of consciousness, trying to mix poetry,...
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