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From the Archives

February 10, 2005

M.I.A.'s Rebel Yell

London streets meet South Asian beats on "Arular"
October 4, 2001

Elastica Call It Quits

British pop group breaks up after nearly a decade
September 21, 2000

Elastica Snap Back Live

Britpop becomes a lovable mess in San Francisco tour opener for Elastica
August 29, 2000

Elastica "Menace" North America

After three years of silence, Elastica return to U.S.

Recordings and Reviews

The Radio One Sessions

For a brief moment during the mid-Nineties, this female-fronted U.K. pop-punk band was the toppermost of the poppermost in England, and deservedly so. This twenty-one-track collection finds the group rocking all over the place -- short songs and shambling, sassy hooks rule the roost.
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2001 RS: 3of 5 Stars

The Menace

2000

Elastica

1995

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Biography

Elastica would?ve been the finest punk-pop album of 1979, had it not been recorded 16 years later. In fact, songwriters Justine Frischmann and Donna Matthews raided their favorite records of that era for attitude, speed, energy, and, very often, riffs -- the hit single "Connection" is basically Wire?s "Three Girl Rhumba" with new words, and other songs borrow ideas from Blondie, New Order, and the...

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