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The Exciters were a band comprised of four women formed in Queens, New York City, in 1961. They are known for ushering in the heyday of the girl group sound via the 1962 classic, "Tell Him”.

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Sweep the Leg Johnny was a band founded in Chicago in 1996. They combined a variety of musical styles, including rock, progressive, jazz, and funk, to create their own unique sound. Members consisted of Steve Sostak, Chris Daly, Matt Alicea, and Scott Anna.

The band’s debut album, 4.9.21.30, debuted in 1997 and was followed with a 57 day tour. Their last album was Live September 9th, 2000, which was released in 2003.

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Crowding Up Your Visual Field was a DVD video compilation released in 2004 by the band Superchunk. It consisted of twelve of the band’s music videos, each including commentary by the band, as well as a “tour diary” called Quest for Sleep that documented their 2001 tour. The DVD concludes with ten additional videos of songs recorded live during various tours.

Superchunk originated in 1989 in Chapel Hill, NC and continues to tour and produce albums today. The members consist of Mac McCaughan, Jim Wilbur, Jon Wurster, and Laura Ballance.

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Sleater-Kinney is an indie rock band that formed in 1994 in Olympia, Washington. The band members are Corin Tucker, Janet Weiss, and Carrie Brownstein, who stars on the television show Portlandia. Sleator-Kinney was influenced by the feminist punk movement in the early 1990s. They recorded 7 studio albums in Portland and Seattle before going on hiatus for several years and returned to record another album together in 2015. 

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One of the "Fab Four," Ringo Starr was the drummer for The Beatles in the 1960s. He occasionally sang lead vocals and wrote the Beatles' songs "Don't Pass Me By" and "Octopus's Garden." After The Beatles broke up in 1970, Ringo went on to have a very successful solo career releasing 18 solo albums and entering the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo musician in 2015. Today he tours the globe, playing to sold out crowds.

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Reggie and the Full Effect is an American rock band created by keyboardist James Dewees. The band has been active from 1998–2008, 2010, 2013–present (May 2020) and has also been known as Common Denominator or Fluxuation. The other band names are representative of Dewees various styles by his alternate personalities. Dewees plays every instrument on the albums and frequently records joke tapes handed out freely including cassette tapes and CD albums with the CD found under the tray.

This design was about the 470th design created by the Busy Beaver Button Co.

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Formed in March of 1979, The English Beat (or, The Beat as they were originally known as in the U.K.) had their first chart hit, a cover of the Smokey Robinson hit "Tears of a Clown" that same year. Known for inclusivity, their musical influences included soul, reggae, pop, and punk. During the 1980s, they toured with contemporaries like The Talking Heads, David Bowie, R.E.M., and The Clash. 

"Psychedelic Rockers," a song from their second studio album, 1981's Wha'ppen, was released as a single in 1980. The graphics seen here feature Ranking Roger, one of the band's vocalists and a pioneer of British Ska. Ranking Roger was known as a "toaster," a reggae DJ or musician who raps over instrumental music sections.

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Offcell was a five-song album released by the alternative rock band Pinback in June of 2003. Pinback  was founded in San Diego in 1998 by Armistead Burwell Smith IV and Braden Diotte, both of whom have remained the only consistent members of the band since its inception. Other members currently include Cameron Jones and Chris Prescott.

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PigBag is a post-punk instrumental band that began in Cheltenham (a town in Gloucestershire, England) in 1980 by Chris Hamlin and ended in 1983. Roger Freeman was the multi-instrumentalist, Chris Lee played the trumpet, and James Johnstone was the guitarist. The band played in parks and at Hamlin's house for jam sessions. They added a rhythm section with drummer Andrew "Chip" Carpenter and bassist Mark "Miff" Smith. Mark was soon replaced by Sam Underwood who was a former member of the band The Pop Group. Another member joined the ensemble, Ollie Moore, who was the tenor sax player.

Their first gig was opening for The Slits at Romeo and Juliet's in Bristol on October 21st 1980. Their band name was originally Us Corporation but after their first show they changed their name to PigBag inspired by Hamlin's cloth bag which displayed an image of a warthog. Their set included twenty minutes of a positively received song later titled, "Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag," which was recorded the next day at Y Records.