This was early '90s and in New York hip-hop was coming on really strong; that was the sort of urban folk music that was almost threatening to eclipse rock music and indie rock music in terms of popularity, which it has certainly gone on to do. But you know, this is the end of the 1980s, beginning of the '90s. The whole independent label thing has really evolved to this incredible point from the early '80s when we started, and there wasn't one record label at all, until a couple people started forming these small labels.
This was early '90s and in New York hip-hop was coming on really strong; that was the sort of urban folk music that was almost threatening to eclipse… - Lee Ranaldo
This was early '90s and in New York hip-hop was coming on really strong; that was the sort of urban folk music that was almost threatening to eclipse…
- Lee Ranaldo
We've been around long enough that there have certainly been people at every stage of our career telling us about one or another record being influen… - Lee Ranaldo
We've been around long enough that there have certainly been people at every stage of our career telling us about one or another record being influen…
And for me, I think of the group as one in which there's always this pendulum swinging back and forth between writing shorter, more concise pieces un… - Lee Ranaldo
And for me, I think of the group as one in which there's always this pendulum swinging back and forth between writing shorter, more concise pieces un…
In a certain way, we felt almost like spies in the major label world. We were coming from some other world, and we somehow got our foot in the door a… - Lee Ranaldo
In a certain way, we felt almost like spies in the major label world. We were coming from some other world, and we somehow got our foot in the door a…
Of course you want to keep making good records, but I think there were certain aspects to the indie rock situation at that point where we were pushin… - Lee Ranaldo
Of course you want to keep making good records, but I think there were certain aspects to the indie rock situation at that point where we were pushin…
Certainly our records could be found in most of the mom and pop indie stores, but we still found there were a lot of major stores that weren't on the… - Lee Ranaldo
Certainly our records could be found in most of the mom and pop indie stores, but we still found there were a lot of major stores that weren't on the…
We're obviously not a platinum-selling band, and yet we've managed to maintain a career on a major label through all this time, and I think we always… - Lee Ranaldo
We're obviously not a platinum-selling band, and yet we've managed to maintain a career on a major label through all this time, and I think we always…
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