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Of Sweaty Basements, Short Skirts and the Paisley Underground: Vicki Peterson of the Bangles
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Of Sweaty Basements, Short Skirts and the Paisley Underground: Vicki Peterson of the Bangles

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 / 1 July 2016
The Bangles surveyed Los Angeles in the aftermath of punk and forged a new way. A new compilation looks back on that time as Vicki Peterson remembers the thrill of hearing herself on the radio for the first time and the terror of the group's first tour.
It’s My Life: Peter Holsapple on the Life and Death of the Continental Drifters
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It’s My Life: Peter Holsapple on the Life and Death of the Continental Drifters

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 / 13 October 2015
Peter Holsapple made some of the best records of the 1980s with the dB's. Then he joined and left R.E.M. Then he joined the Continental Drifters by accident and made some of the music he considers the most important of his life.