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___MASK75___ is a UK based ___MASK56___ and ___MASK74___ movement in the mid 1990s which emphasised " Britishness ", and produced bright , catchy pop ___MASK56___ partly in reaction to the US led ___MASK9___ ___MASK56___ and the UK ' s own shoegazing ___MASK56___ scene . The most successful bands associated with the movement are Oasis , Blur , Suede and Pulp ; those groups would come to be known as its " big four ". The timespan of ___MASK75___ is generally considered to be 1993 - 1997 , with 1994 - 1995 , and a chart battle between Blur and Oasis dubbed " The Battle of ___MASK75___ ", being the epicentre of activity . While ___MASK56___ was the main focus , fashion , art , and politics also got involved , with artists such as Damien Hirst being involved in creating videos for Blur , and being labelled as Britart or ___MASK75___ artists , and Tony Blair and New Labour aligning themselves with the movement . Beasts of Bourbon are an Australian ___MASK58___ , blues rock band formed in August 1983 , with James Baker on drums ( ex - Hoodoo Gurus ), Spencer P . Jones on guitar ( The Johnnys ), Tex Perkins on vocals ( Dum Dums ), Kim Salmon on guitar and Boris Sujdovic on bass guitar ( both ex - The Scientists ). Except for mainstays , Jones and Perkins , the line - up has changed as the group splintered and reformed several times . Their debut album , " The Axeman ' s Jazz " ( July 1984 ), was the best selling Australian ___MASK58___ album for 1984 . Their debut single , " Psycho ", is a cover version of the Leon Payne original , and was the best selling Australian ___MASK58___ single for that year . However the group disbanded by mid - 1985 and each member pursued other musical projects . They reformed in 1987 and issued a second album , " Sour Mash ", in December 1988 on Red Eye Records . According to rock music historian , Ian McFarlane , it " virtually redefined the parameters of guitar - based rock ' n ' roll . The Cramps - influenced swamp - rock of old had been discarded for a more adventurous slab of gutbucket blues and avant - garde weirdness . Perkins ' voice had matured into an authentic blues growl ". Their fifth studio album , " Gone " ( January 1997 ), reached the Top 50 ARIA Albums Chart . Their seventh studio album , "" Little Animals " ( 21 April 2007 ) on Albert Productions , which also peaked into the Top 50 . Post - punk ( originally " new musick ") is a broad type of ___MASK82___ that emerged from the punk movement of the 1970s , in which artists departed from punk rock ' s raw , accessible style to pursue a ___MASK65___ of avant - garde sensibilities . Attempting to break from rock tradition , post - punk artists experimented with sources such as electronic music , black dance music and the avant - garde , as well as novel recording technology and production techniques . The movement also saw the frequent intersection of music with art and politics , as artists incorporated ideas from sources such as modernist literature , critical theory , cinema , and performance art . Accompanying these musical developments were communities that produced independent record labels , visual art , multimedia performances and fanzines in conjunction with the music . ___MASK98___ is a subgenre and subculture of alternative / ___MASK68___ that originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s . The style is inspired by punk ' s DIY ethic and related ideologies , and it generated a thriving fanzine , label , and club and gig circuit . ___MASK98___ differs from ___MASK68___ to the extent that it is more melodic , less abrasive , and relatively angst - free . Its substyles include chamber pop and twee pop . The City of New York , often called New York City or simply New York , is the most populous city in the United States . With an estimated 2015 population of 8 , 550 , 405 distributed over a land area of just , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States . Located at the southern tip of the state of New York , the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area , one of the most populous ___MASK28___ agglomerations in the world . A global power city , New York City exerts a significant impact upon commerce , ___MASK77___ , media , art , ___MASK23___ , research , technology , education , and ___MASK20___ , its fast pace defining the term " New York minute ". Home to the headquarters of the United Nations , New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world . ___MASK68___ is a genre of ___MASK58___ that originated in the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1980s . ___MASK68___ encapsulates ___MASK98___ and lo - fi , among others . Originally used to describe record labels , the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with ___MASK58___ . As grunge and punk revival bands in the US , and then Britpop bands in the UK , broke into the mainstream in the 1990s , it came to be used to identify those acts that retained an outsider and underground perspective . In the 2000s , as a result of changes in the music industry and the growing importance of the Internet , some indie rock acts began to enjoy commercial success , leading to questions about its meaningfulness as a term . Ian McFarlane ( born 1959 ) is an Australian ___MASK56___ journalist , ___MASK56___ historian and author , whose best known publication is the " Encyclopedia of Australian ___MASK88___ and Pop " ( 1999 ). As a journalist he started in 1984 with " Juke ", a ___MASK82___ newspaper . During the early 1990s he worked for Roadrunner Records while he published a ___MASK56___ guide , " The Australian New Music Record Guide Volume 1 : 1976  1980 " ( 1992 ). He followed with two fanzines , " Freedom Train " and " Prehistoric Sounds ", both issued during 1994 to 1996 . McFarlane ' s " The Encyclopedia of Australian ___MASK88___ and Pop " is described by the " Australian Music Guide " as " the most exhaustive and wide - ranging encyclopedia of Australian ___MASK56___ from the 1950s onwards ". Subsequently , he was a writer for " The Australian " and worked for Raven Records , a reissue specialist label , preparing compilations , writing liner notes and providing research . He fulfilled a similar role at Aztec Music from 2004 to March 2012 . From July 2013 he has been a contributor to " Addicted to Noise ", writing a column . Kim Salmon and the Surrealists are an Australian ___MASK68___ band formed by Kim Salmon in 1987 when he was living in Perth between the final two tours by The Scientists . When the Scientists stopped , Salmon continued the Surrealists as his main band , while also playing in The Beasts Of Bourbon . Kim Leith Salmon ( born 1957 , Bunbury ) is an Australian ___MASK68___ musician and songwriter from Perth . He has worked in various groups including The Scientists , Beasts of Bourbon , Kim Salmon and the Surrealists , Kim Salmon and the Business , and Darling Downs . Australian rock musicologist , Ian McFarlane , described Salmon as one of the first Australians to " embrace wholeheartedly the emergent punk phenomenon of the mid - to - late 1970s " with The Scientists . He declared that Beasts of Bourbon were " masters of uncompromising gutbucket blues and hard - edged rock ' n ' roll ". In 2004 Salmon was inducted into the West Australian Music Industry Association Hall of Fame . The Scientists are an influential post - punk band from Perth , Australia , led by Kim Salmon , initially known as the Exterminators and then the Invaders . The band had two primary incarnations : the Perth - based punk band of the late 1970s and the Sydney / London - based swamp ___MASK88___ band of the 1980s . The Scientists were much more influential than their minimal commercial success would indicate , lending their influence to artists such as Mudhoney and New York City ' s downtown indie scene of the early 1990s . ___MASK9___ ( sometimes referred to as the Seattle sound ) is a subgenre of ___MASK58___ that emerged during the in the American state of Washington , particularly in Seattle . The early grunge movement revolved around Seattle ' s independent record label Sub Pop , but by the early 1990s its popularity had spread , with grunge acts in California and other parts of the U . S . building strong followings and signing major record deals . ___MASK58___ ( also called alternative music , alt - rock or simply alternative ) is a genre of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s and 2000s . In this instance , the word " alternative " refers to the genre ' s distinction from mainstream rock music . The term ' s original meaning was broader , referring to a generation of musicians unified by their collective debt to either the musical style or simply the independent , D . I . Y . ethos of punk rock , which in the late 1970s laid the groundwork for alternative music . At times , " alternative " has been used as a catch - all description for music from underground rock artists that receives mainstream recognition , or for any music , whether rock or not , that is seen to be descended from punk rock ( including some examples of punk itself , as well as new wave , and post - punk ). Mudhoney is an American ___MASK58___ band . Formed in Seattle , Washington in 1988 following the demise of Green River , Mudhoney ' s members are singer and rhythm guitarist Mark Arm , lead guitarist Steve Turner , bassist Guy Maddison and drummer Dan Peters . Original bassist Matt Lukin left the band in 1999 . Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of ___MASK96___ Australia . It is the fourth - most populous city in Australia , with an estimated population of 2 . 04 million living in Greater Perth . Perth is part of the South West Land Division of ___MASK96___ Australia , with the majority of the metropolitan area of Perth located on the Swan Coastal Plain , a narrow strip between the Indian Ocean and the Darling Scarp , a low coastal escarpment . The first areas settled were on the Swan River , with the city ' s central business district and port ( Fremantle ) both located on its shores . The Perth Metropolitan Region includes 30 local ___MASK57___ areas , which themselves consist of a large number of suburbs , extending from Two Rocks in the north to Rockingham in the south , and east inland to The Lakes .