WTSH Shoegaze Spotlight
on the Strangeways Radio Blog:
A Weekly Gaze.
About this week's spotlight:
Who: MEDICINE
What: WTSH Shoegaze Spotlight feature
Where: Strangeways Radio blog
When: Weekly
A Weekly Gaze.
About this week's spotlight:
Who: MEDICINE
What: WTSH Shoegaze Spotlight feature
Where: Strangeways Radio blog
When: Weekly
Every week WTSH will present a shoegaze/dream pop band on Strangeways' blog, highlighting how very awesome the band is and how you should be listening to them and buying their music and supporting them because they deserve it.
This week's focus:
Medicine is a
shoegaze/noisepop band from Los Angeles, CA. The band is generally considered
to have had two distinct incarnations. The band was first formed in 1991 by
guitarist, vocalist and programmer Brad Laner (aka Electric Company), based on
some four track recordings Laner was working on in 1990. After showing the
tapes to some industry people, he was told that if he formed a band that
sounded like the tapes, he could get a record deal. Laner then assembled a band
of musicians from the L.A. music scene. Medicine’s early lineup included Laner,
drummer Jim Goodall, guitarist Jim Putnam, bassist Eddie Ruscha, and singer
Annette Zilinskas, an original member of The Bangles. Putnam, Ruscha, and
Zilinskas eventually left; the latter was replaced by former Fourwaycross
singer Beth Thompson. On the basis of the original demo, the band got signed to
Creation Records, becoming the first American band to do so... CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE
