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The Raincoats, the Glossary

The Raincoats are a British experimental post-punk band.^[1]

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English experimental rock groups
Proto-riot grrrl bands
ROIR artists

!K7 Music

!K7 Music is a music company based in Berlin, Germany that focuses mostly on electronic music.

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A & C Black

A & C Black is a British book publishing company, owned since 2002 by Bloomsbury Publishing.

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Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track or cassette), or digital.

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All Tomorrow's Parties (festival)

All Tomorrow's Parties (ATP) was a UK organisation based in London that promoted music festivals, concerts and records throughout the world for over 10 years.

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All-female band

An all-female band is a musical group in popular music that is exclusively composed of female musicians.

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Ana da Silva

Ana da Silva is a musician, best known as a founding member of post-punk rock band the Raincoats.

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Angel Olsen

Angel Olsen (born Angelina Marie Carroll; January 22, 1987) is an American singer-songwriter from St. Louis, Missouri who lives in Asheville, North Carolina.

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Balafon

The balafon (pronounced, or, by analogy with xylophone etc.) is a gourd-resonated xylophone, a type of struck idiophone.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family.

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BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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Blast First

Blast First is a sub label of one-time independent record label Mute Records, founded in approximately 1985.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

Bloomsbury Publishing plc is a British worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction.

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British Film Institute

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom.

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The British folk revival incorporates a number of movements for the collection, preservation and performance of folk music in the United Kingdom and related territories and countries, which had origins as early as the 18th century.

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Britpop

Britpop was a mid-1990s British-based music culture movement that emphasised Britishness.

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Buzzcocks

Buzzcocks are an English punk rock band that singer-songwriter-guitarist Pete Shelley and singer-songwriter Howard Devoto formed in Bolton in 1976. The Raincoats and Buzzcocks are English new wave musical groups, English punk rock groups and ROIR artists.

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C81 (album)

C81 was a cassette compiled for the British music paper NME in 1981 (hence (C)assette 81) and released in conjunction with the record label Rough Trade.

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Charles Hayward (drummer)

Charles Hayward (born 1951) is an English drummer and was a founding member of the experimental rock groups This Heat and Camberwell Now.

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Chicks on Speed

Chicks on Speed is a feminist music and fine art ensemble, formed in Munich in 1997 at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts.

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Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, cover song, remake, revival, or simply cover is a new performance or recording by a musician other than the original performer or composer of the song.

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Danny Baker

Danny Baker (born 22 June 1957) is an English comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and screenwriter.

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DGC Records

DGC Records (an initialism for the David Geffen Company) was an American record label that operated as a division of Interscope Geffen A&M Records, which is owned by Universal Music Group.

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DJ-Kicks: Chicken Lips

DJ-Kicks: Chicken Lips is a DJ mix album, mixed by Chicken Lips.

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Don't Look Back (concert series)

Don't Look Back was a yearly series of concerts in which London-based promoters All Tomorrow's Parties would ask artists and bands to play one of their seminal albums live in its entirety.

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Donaufestival

The Donaufestival is an annual festival of music and performance that takes place each April in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.

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Dub music

Dub is an electronic musical style that grew out of reggae in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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Ed Buller

Edmund Wilbur Hudson "Ed" Buller is an English record producer and former musician.

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Equinox Publishing (Sheffield)

Equinox Publishing Ltd is an independent academic publisher incepted in 2003 by Janet Joyce and based in Sheffield.

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Experimental rock

Experimental rock, also called avant-rock, is a subgenre of rock music that pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre.

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Faber & Faber

Faber and Faber Limited, commonly known as Faber & Faber or simply Faber, is an independent publishing house in London.

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Free jazz

Free jazz, or Free Form in the early to mid-1970s, is a style of avant-garde jazz or an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when musicians attempted to change or break down jazz conventions, such as regular tempos, tones, and chord changes.

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Gamelan

Gamelan (ꦒꦩꦼꦭꦤ꧀, ᮌᮙᮨᮜᮔ᮪, ᬕᬫᭂᬮᬦ᭄) is the traditional ensemble music of the Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese peoples of Indonesia, made up predominantly of percussive instruments.

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Geffen Records

Geffen Records (formerly Geffen Records Inc. until 2004) is an American record label, founded in 1980 by David Geffen.

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Geoff Travis

Geoff Travis (born 2 February 1952) is the founder of both Rough Trade Records and the Rough Trade chain of record shops.

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Gina Birch

Gina Birch (born 1955) is an English musician and filmmaker, best known as a founding member of post-punk rock band, The Raincoats.

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Greil Marcus

Greil Marcus (born June 19, 1945) is an American author, music journalist and cultural critic.

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Guitar

The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings.

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Hornsey College of Art

Hornsey College of Art, also known as HCA, founded in 1880 as the Hornsey School of Arts, was an art school in Crouch End, part of Hornsey, Middlesex, England.

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Incesticide

is a compilation album by the American rock band Nirvana.

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Islington Assembly Hall

Islington Assembly Hall is a live music venue and events space on Upper Street, Islington, London.

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Jeff Mangum

Jeffrey Nye Mangum (born 24 October 1970) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who gained prominence as the founder, songwriter, vocalist and guitarist of Neutral Milk Hotel, as well for his co-founding of The Elephant 6 Recording Company.

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John Lydon

John Joseph Lydon (born 31 January 1956), also known by his former stage name Johnny Rotten, is a singer.

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John Peel

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), better known as John Peel, was an English radio presenter and journalist.

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Kill Rock Stars

Kill Rock Stars is an independent record label founded in 1991 by Slim Moon and Tinuviel Sampson, and based in both Olympia, Washington, and Portland, Oregon.

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Kim Gordon

Kim Althea Gordon (born April 28, 1953) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and rapper best known as the bassist, guitarist, and vocalist of alternative rock band Sonic Youth.

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Kitty, Daisy & Lewis

Kitty, Daisy & Lewis are a British band fronted by the siblings of the Durham family. The Raincoats and Kitty, Daisy & Lewis are rock music groups from London.

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Kurt Cobain

Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994) was an American musician who was the lead vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter, and a founding member of the grunge band Nirvana. The Raincoats and Kurt Cobain are DGC Records artists.

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Ladyfest

Ladyfest is a community-based, not-for-profit global music and arts festival for feminist and women artists.

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Leeds

Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England.

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Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the '80s Underground

Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the '80s Underground is a four-disc alternative rock compilation album released by Rhino Records in 2004.

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LiLiPUT

LiLiPUT, initially known as Kleenex, were a Swiss punk rock band formed in Zürich in 1978. The Raincoats and LiLiPUT are all-female punk bands and Rough Trade Records artists.

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Looking in the Shadows

Looking in the Shadows is the fourth studio album by British alternative rock group the Raincoats, released in 1996 by Rough Trade and DGC.

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Lyon

Lyon (Franco-Provençal: Liyon), formerly spelled in English as Lyons, is the second largest city of France by urban area It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, northeast of Saint-Étienne.

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Matt Groening

Matthew Abram Groening (born February 15, 1954) is an American cartoonist, writer, producer, and animator.

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Mayo Thompson

Mayo Thompson (born February 26, 1944) is an American musician and visual artist best known as the leader of the experimental rock band Red Krayola.

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Mbira

Mbira are a family of musical instruments, traditional to the Shona people of Zimbabwe.

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Meltdown (festival)

Meltdown is an annual festival held in London, featuring a mix of music, art, performance and film.

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Minehead

Minehead is a coastal town and civil parish in Somerset, England.

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Mo-dettes

Mo-dettes were an English all-female post-punk band, formed in 1979 by guitarist Kate Korris, an original member of the Slits and brief member of the Raincoats, and bassist Jane Crockford, a former member of Bank of Dresden. The Raincoats and mo-dettes are all-female punk bands, English post-punk music groups and Underground punk scene in the United Kingdom.

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Mojo (magazine)

Mojo (stylised in all caps) is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom, initially by Emap, and since January 2008 by Bauer.

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Moving (The Raincoats album)

Moving, released by Rough Trade Records on 27 January 1984, is the third studio album by the Raincoats.

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Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

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Mute Records

Mute Records is a British independent record label owned and founded in 1978 by Daniel Miller.

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Neutral Milk Hotel

Neutral Milk Hotel were an American band formed in 1989 by musician Jeff Mangum in Ruston, Louisiana.

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Nick Turner

Nick Turner, sometimes credited as Nicky Turner, is a drummer who briefly played with The Raincoats and became a founding member of The Barracudas.

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Nirvana (band)

Nirvana was an American rock band formed in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1987. The Raincoats and Nirvana (band) are DGC Records artists.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand.

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Nuits Sonores

Nuits Sonores is an electronic music festival based in Lyon, France.

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Odyshape

Odyshape is the second album by the Raincoats, originally released on 1 June 1981 by Rough Trade.

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Palmolive (musician)

Paloma McLardy (née Romero, born 26 December 1954), known as Palmolive, is a Spanish drummer and songwriter who was a member of influential early punk bands.

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Patrick Keiller

Patrick Keiller (born 1950) is a British film-maker, writer and lecturer.

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Pete Shelley

Pete Shelley (born Peter Campbell McNeish; 17 April 1955 – 6 December 2018) was an English singer, songwriter and guitarist.

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Polyrhythm

Polyrhythm is the simultaneous use of two or more rhythms that are not readily perceived as deriving from one another, or as simple manifestations of the same meter.

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Post-punk

Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad genre of music that emerged in 1977 in the wake of punk rock.

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Public Image Ltd

Public Image Ltd (abbreviated and stylized as PiL) are an English post-punk band formed by lead vocalist John Lydon (previously, as Johnny Rotten, lead vocalist of Sex Pistols), guitarist Keith Levene (a founder member of The Clash), bassist Jah Wobble, and drummer Jim Walker in May 1978. The Raincoats and Public Image Ltd are English experimental rock groups, English new wave musical groups, English post-punk music groups and rock music groups from London.

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Pulp (band)

Pulp are an English rock band formed in Sheffield in 1978.

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Razor & Tie

Razor & Tie was an American entertainment company that consisted of a record label and a music publishing company.

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Record producer

A record producer or music producer is a music creating project's overall supervisor whose responsibilities can involve a range of creative and technical leadership roles.

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Red Krayola

Red Krayola (originally Red Crayola) is an American avant rock band from Houston, Texas formed in 1966 by the trio of singer/guitarist Mayo Thompson, drummer Frederick Barthelme, and bassist Steve Cunningham. The Raincoats and Red Krayola are Rough Trade Records artists.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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Rhino Entertainment

Rhino Entertainment Company (formerly Rhino Records Inc.) is an American specialty record label and production company founded in 1978.

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Richard Dudanski

Richard "Snakehips" Dudanski, also known as Richard Nother, is an English drummer who was a member of a number of seminal British proto-punk, punk and post-punk bands, including The 101ers, The Raincoats, Public Image Ltd., Tymon Dogg and the Fools, and the Martin Hannett produced roots-rock dub outfit, Basement 5.

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Rip It Up and Start Again

Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984 is a book by Simon Reynolds on the post-punk musical genre and era.

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Robert Wyatt

Robert Wyatt (born Robert Wyatt-Ellidge, 28 January 1945) is a retired English musician. The Raincoats and Robert Wyatt are Rough Trade Records artists.

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ROIR

ROIR (pronounced "roar"), or Reachout International Records, is a New York City-based independent record label founded in 1979 by Neil Cooper.

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Rough Trade (shops)

Rough Trade is a retail chain of record shops in the United Kingdom and the United States with headquarters in London.

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Rough Trade Records

Rough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London, England.

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Scala (club)

Scala is a former cinema turned nightclub and live music venue in Pentonville Road, London, England, near King's Cross railway station.

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Sensationalism

In journalism and mass media, sensationalism is a type of editorial tactic.

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Shirley O'Loughlin

Shirley O'Loughlin, photographer, is a principal lecturer and course leader of BA (Hons) Photography at the University of Westminster, London, UK.

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Silver Monk Time

Silver Monk Time is a tribute album inspired by the German-American beat band the Monks.

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Singing

Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice.

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Single (music)

In music, a single is a type of release of a song recording of fewer tracks than an album or LP record, typically one or two tracks.

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Smells Like Records

Smells Like Records is an independent record label based in Hoboken, New Jersey, formed by Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley in 1993.

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Soft Machine

Soft Machine are a British rock band from Canterbury formed in mid-1966 by Mike Ratledge, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Daevid Allen and Larry Nowlin.

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Somerset

Somerset (archaically Somersetshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth was an American rock band based in New York City and formed in 1981. The Raincoats and Sonic Youth are Blast First artists and DGC Records artists.

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Steve Shelley

Steven Jay Shelley (born June 23, 1962) is an American drummer.

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Suede (band)

Suede (also known in the US as the London Suede) are an English rock band formed in London in 1989 by singer Brett Anderson, guitarist Justine Frischmann, and bass player Mat Osman.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.

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The 101ers

The 101ers were a pub rock band from the 1970s playing mostly in a rockabilly style, notable as being the band that Joe Strummer left to join The Clash.

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The Barracudas

The Barracudas are an English surf rock band formed in late 1978. The Raincoats and The Barracudas are English new wave musical groups and rock music groups from London.

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The Garage (London)

The Garage is a live music and club venue in Highbury, North London.

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The Kinks

The Kinks were an English rock band formed in London in 1963 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies. The Raincoats and The Kinks are rock music groups from London.

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The Kitchen (art institution)

The Kitchen is a non-profit, multi-disciplinary avant-garde performance and experimental art institution located at 512 West 19th Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

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The Kitchen Tapes (The Raincoats album)

The Kitchen Tapes, released by ROIR in 1983, is the only live album by the Raincoats.

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The Monks

The Monks, referred to by the name monks on record sleeves, were an American rock band formed in Gelnhausen, West Germany, in 1964.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Raincoats

The Raincoats are a British experimental post-punk band. The Raincoats and The Raincoats are 1977 establishments in England, all-female punk bands, Blast First artists, DGC Records artists, English experimental rock groups, English new wave musical groups, English post-punk music groups, English punk rock groups, female-fronted musical groups, musical groups established in 1977, proto-riot grrrl bands, ROIR artists, rock music groups from London, Rough Trade Records artists and Underground punk scene in the United Kingdom.

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The Raincoats (album)

The Raincoats is the debut studio album by English rock band the Raincoats.

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The Slits

The Slits were a punk rock band based in London, formed there in 1976 by members of the groups the Flowers of Romance and the Castrators. The Raincoats and the Slits are English post-punk music groups, English punk rock groups, proto-riot grrrl bands and Underground punk scene in the United Kingdom.

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The Tabernacle, Notting Hill

The Tabernacle is a Grade II-listed building in Powis Square, Notting Hill, west London, England, built in 1887 as a church.

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The Velvet Underground

The Velvet Underground was an American rock band formed in New York City in 1964.

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This Heat

This Heat were an English experimental rock band, formed in early 1976 in Camberwell, London by multi-instrumentalists Charles Bullen (guitar, clarinet, viola, vocals, tapes), Charles Hayward (drums, keyboards, vocals, tapes) and Gareth Williams (keyboard, guitar, bass, vocals, tapes). The Raincoats and This Heat are English experimental rock groups, English post-punk music groups, Rough Trade Records artists and Underground punk scene in the United Kingdom.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raincoats

Also known as Ingrid Weiss.

, LiLiPUT, Looking in the Shadows, Lyon, Matt Groening, Mayo Thompson, Mbira, Meltdown (festival), Minehead, Mo-dettes, Mojo (magazine), Moving (The Raincoats album), Museum of Modern Art, Mute Records, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nick Turner, Nirvana (band), NME, Nuits Sonores, Odyshape, Palmolive (musician), Patrick Keiller, Pete Shelley, Polyrhythm, Post-punk, Public Image Ltd, Pulp (band), Razor & Tie, Record producer, Red Krayola, Reggae, Rhino Entertainment, Richard Dudanski, Rip It Up and Start Again, Robert Wyatt, ROIR, Rough Trade (shops), Rough Trade Records, Scala (club), Sensationalism, Shirley O'Loughlin, Silver Monk Time, Singing, Single (music), Smells Like Records, Soft Machine, Somerset, Sonic Youth, Steve Shelley, Suede (band), Switzerland, The 101ers, The Barracudas, The Garage (London), The Kinks, The Kitchen (art institution), The Kitchen Tapes (The Raincoats album), The Monks, The Observer, The Raincoats, The Raincoats (album), The Slits, The Tabernacle, Notting Hill, The Velvet Underground, This Heat, Tim/Kerr, UK Independent Singles and Albums Charts, V2 Records, Vice Cooler, Vicky Aspinall, Violin, Virago Press, Volksbühne, Wanna Buy a Bridge?, WFMU, World music, X-Ray Spex, 20th Century Women, 33⅓, 35 Denton.

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See also

Blast First artists

DGC Records artists

English experimental rock groups

Proto-riot grrrl bands

ROIR artists

References