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1995 · Mid-90s Sub Pop Indie / Post-Grunge Experimentalism (1995) — Chicago underground scene pivoting from grunge revivalism toward blues-drenched noise-rock and alternate-fidelity aesthetics, timed with the release of Bunny Gets Paid on Sub Pop Records · music video
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1995Mid-90s Sub Pop Indie / Post-Grunge Experimentalism (1995) — Chicago underground scene pivoting from grunge revivalism toward blues-drenched noise-rock and alternate-fidelity aesthetics, timed with the release of Bunny Gets Paid on Sub Pop RecordsMid-90s Chicago indie underground / Sub Pop blues-noise experimentalismDir. Tim Rutili & Jeff Economy

What this video is

Released in 1995 on Sub Pop Records as a single and track from Bunny Gets Paid, Red Red Meat's third album and widely regarded as their artistic peak. The band emerged from Chicago's Wicker Park indie underground, recorded by producer Brad Wood at Idful Studios. The mid-90s moment captured here sits between the commercial apex of grunge and the band's own dissolution into the more experimental Califone project. The…

Why it matters

Key artifact of the Chicago mid-90s indie underground: a blues-and-noise hybrid that anticipated the loose, experimental rock of Califone, Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot era, and American primitivism in rock. The visual language of the video — DIY Super 8 collage directing, rapid editing, warm…

The director

Tim Rutili is the singer, guitarist, and primary songwriter of Red Red Meat and its successor project Califone. He attended film school in Chicago in the mid-1980s and has maintained a parallel career as a visual artist and filmmaker. Jeff Economy…

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