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Growing up in Florida during the ’70s, I always understood provincial music. Southern rock was the soundtrack to my childhood. So when I got into punk in the ’80s, the idea of regional scenes made ...

The UK band Elastica released one self-titled album of ridiculously catchy, close-to-perfect new wave in 1995. Then, they took five years to record The Menace, the pretty-good follow-up, and promptly ...

Originality in pop is an overly-fetishised concept, especially by music critics. I have probably caught that bug a little myself, which is why I hadn’t found myself revisiting Elastica’s two albums ...

The Elastica implosion: how Britpop's bright young things became its biggest casualty Twenty-five years ago, Elastica were Britain's coolest band. Five years later, fame, drugs and touring had crushed ...

Fans of ’90s UK shoegaze and indie take note: Miki Berenyi of Lush has formed a new band called Piroshka which also features KJ McKillop of Moose, Justin Welch of Elastica, and Michael Conroy of ...

In this month's essay, Jeanette Leech seeks to reclaim the legacy of Elastica's vastly underrated second album from prurient mutterings about drug addiction and the collapse of Britpop, celebrating ...

Her band were one of the leading lights of Britpop – but when it all fell apart Frischmann regrouped in a quieter corner of the US and is now a visual artist Jarvis Cocker has got his radio show, ...

How one era-defining classic—Elastica’s Britpop-bombing 1995 debut—spawned another: M.I.A.’s Arular, which turns 10 this year. Elastica died without incident—no dramatic onstage announcement, no ...

Elastica could be set to reform after the band were recently pictured at Abbey Road Studios. The studio’s mastering engineer Sean Magee also tweeted that he had “cut a record for Elastica,” adding ...