The dB’s
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Influential Debut Album by the dB’s To Be Reissued and Available on Vinyl for the First Time
[Magnet] Stands For deciBels, the 1981 debut from the dB’s, didn’t make much of a commercial impression, but it enthralled a small legion of college-rock loyalists soon to swoon over bands like R.E.M., whose members are among the many who cite the LP as an inspiration. Ask a dB why the record has endured, and you […]
Indie-Rock Icons The dB’s Oversee a Quite Welcome and Long-Overdue First-Time U.S. Vinyl Release of Their Highly Influential 1981 Debut LP, Stands For deciBels
By Mark Smotroff [Analog Planet] After the global onslaught of post-punk new-wave artists in the late 1970s like Elvis Costello, Blondie, Television, The B-52s, and Talking Heads, a barrage of U.S. groups like R.E.M., The Bongos, The Feelies, Let’s Active, Pylon, Mission of Burma, and Love Tractor started shaping the next waves (if you will) as the […]