Possum Dixon - Radio Comets

Name: Possum Dixon - Radio Comets
Uploaded: 1996-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Description: Released in 1996 as the second single from Possum Dixon's second album *Star Maps* on Interscope Records, 'Radio Comets' represents the band's attempt to consolidate a cult following built in the LA indie coffeehouse and art-rock underground into mainstream alternative radio traction. The band—fronted by Rob Zabrecky, with Celso Chavez…

1996 · Mid-90s Alternative Rock / Post-Grunge Transition (1996) · music video

1996Mid-90s Alternative Rock / Post-Grunge Transition (1996)Mid-90s neo-new wave / LA indie alternative rock scene

What this video is

Released in 1996 as the second single from Possum Dixon's second album *Star Maps* on Interscope Records, 'Radio Comets' represents the band's attempt to consolidate a cult following built in the LA indie coffeehouse and art-rock underground into mainstream alternative radio traction. The band—fronted by Rob Zabrecky, with Celso Chavez on guitar and Robert O'Sullivan on electric piano—embodied a neo-new wave,…

Why it matters

Possum Dixon occupied a crucial but underexamined node in mid-90s alternative rock: a Los Angeles-based neo-new wave band on a major label whose sound predated and paralleled the power-pop revival associated with Weezer, yet retained a rawer, art-punk lineage traceable through X, Wall of Voodoo,…

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