Possum Dixon - Emergency's About To End

What this video is

Emergency's About to End is drawn from Star Maps (Interscope, 1996), the second full-length album by Los Angeles quartet Possum Dixon. The band occupied a distinct niche in the mid-90s alternative landscape: while grunge dominated mainstream radio, Possum Dixon pursued a neo-new wave, post-punk pop idiom influenced by Talking Heads, Wall of Voodoo, and the Dream Syndicate, filtered through the East LA coffeehouse…

Why it matters

Represents the overlooked neo-new wave/power-pop current within 90s US alternative rock — a strand distinct from grunge or Britpop that drew on 80s post-punk formalism. Possum Dixon's Interscope output documents the brief window in which LA art-coffeehouse acts received major-label distribution…