{"id":740,"date":"2012-08-15T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/08\/indie-rockers-finding-second-wind.html"},"modified":"2012-08-15T17:02:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T00:02:00","slug":"indie-rockers-finding-second-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/08\/indie-rockers-finding-second-wind.html","title":{"rendered":"Indie Rockers Finding Second Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"

IT seems, sometimes, that every awful band from the past is back together again for a lame-ass shed tour. And it’s also started to seem, at least since the heavenly Go-Betweens reunion of about a decade ago, that some of the groups reuniting were not only good, they were better — or close to it — the second time around.<\/p>\n

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How can both of these things be true at the same time? It took me 2,000 words to figure it out.<\/p>\n

For a story<\/a> that just went up on Salon, I look at the awfulness alongside four bands that never had time to go bad — Spain, the Feelies, Mission of Burma and the dBs — and are now back in force.<\/p>\n

And I try to make sense of the whole never-say-die phenomenon. Why did bands used to break up when the time was right, but then began staying together for years, or getting back together, over and over again?<\/p>\n

Lovers of Spain<\/a>, the LA “slowcore” band of ’90s fame, should be aware of their August 28 show at the Bootleg Theater.<\/p>\n

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Wondering:\u00a0Who are your favorite — and least favorite — reunited bands?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Spain mach 2, Photo Steven Dewall<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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