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The Hair the TV the Baby and the Band

So about that title. Hair: Jone Stebbins tours with her styling scissors. TV: Roddy Bottum scored the defunct ABC series Help Me Help You. Baby: Lynn Truell, nee Perko, is pregnant in her booklet photo. Which leaves Will Schwartz as the band, still harboring dreams that these veteran art-pop...

2007 RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

2002

What Is Not to Love

1999

Seasick

1996

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The members of Imperial Teen have some loud, crashing noises in their backgound -- keyboardist Roddy Bottum was in Faith No More, and drummer Lynn Perko played with the Dicks -- but now they specialize in old-school pop-rock and relatively mature themes, making them a happy indie rock oddity. Like bands such as Yo La Tengo or the Go-Betweens, Imperial Teen promise that love among consenting adults...

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