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Blue Museum

Image

Blue Museum, an alternative rock band comprised of two white women and four white men, stand outside a boarded up doorway of a rock building.

Date Published
1990
1991
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Bob Mould

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Rock guitarist Bob Mould in a close-up, head-shot photograph, seriously looks slightly to the left. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Bob...

Date Published
1989
1990
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Firehose

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Firehose, an alternative and punk rock band comprised of three white men, sit together on the loading panel of a moving truck as Ed Crawford looks up...

Date Published
1986
1989
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Firehose

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Firehose, an alternative and punk rock band comprised of three white men, sit together as Ed Crawford holds an electric guitar. Printed in the margin...

Date Published
1986
1989
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Firehose

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Firehose, an alternative and punk rock band comprised of three white men, stand by a doorway holding their instruments. Printed in the margin below...

Date Published
1986
1989
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Jack Wright & Dwight Frizzell & Tom Aber

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Jack Wright and Dwight Frizzell and Tom Aber, alternative instrument musicians, perform on stage at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri. A...

Date Published
April-1987
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Junk Monkeys

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Junk Monkeys, an alternative rock band comprised of four white men, stand in a hallway looking up at the camera as a poster of the four of them in gas...

Date Published
1989
1992
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Kustom Kar Kommandos

Image

Kustom Kar Kommandos, an alternative rock band comprised of three white men and one African American man, sit in front of paned windows each wearing a...

Date Published
1989
1996
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Meat Puppets

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The Meat Puppets, an alternative rock band comprised of three white men, stand on stage playing their instruments. It is dark behind the stage except...

Date Published
1982
1989
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Mojo Nixon

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Alternative rock musician Mojo Nixon plays guitar straddling on two messy twin beds in a spatially distorted photograph. Printed in the margin below...

Date Published
1990
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

National People's Gang

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National People's Gang, an alternative rock band comprised of four white men, sit together and look off to the left. Printed in the margin below the...

Date Published
1988
1990
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

National People's Gang

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National People's Gang, an alternative rock band comprised of four white men, mug for the camera. Two wear tank tops. Two wear not shirts. One is...

Date Published
1988
1990
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Over the Rhine

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Over the Rhine, an alternative rock band comprised of three white men and one white woman, stand in a gravel parking lot of an institutional-type...

Date Published
1990
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Screaming Trees

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Screaming Trees, an alternative rock / psychedelic rock band comprised of one white woman and three white men, in a split photograph. In the...

Date Published
1987
1989
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Shy Strangers

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The Shy Strangers, an alternative rock band comprised of three white men, crouch down among tall weeds. Printed in the margin below the photograph,...

Date Published
1985
1986
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Sonic Youth

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Sonic Youth, an avant-garde rock band comprised of three white men and one white woman, stand in front of a brick wall and look seriously at the...

Date Published
1986
1987
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Swamp Zombies

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Swamp Zombies, an alternative rock, punk band comprised of four white men, squat in a field of flowers and smile up at the camera. Three of the four...

Date Published
1988
1993
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

They Might Be Giants

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They Might Be Giants, an alternative rock band comprised of two white men, stand on stage playing their instruments and singing with stage lights...

Date Published
1986
1991
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Thin White Rope

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Thin White Rope, an alternative rock band comprised of four white men, in a close-up photograph as they stand in front of a reservoir bridge with...

Date Published
1990
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Toad the Wet Sprocket

Image

Toad the Wet Sprocket, an alternative rock band comprised of four white men, stand outside one behind the other, each wearing a dark shirt, in a close...

Date Published
1990
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Toad the Wet Sprocket

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Toad the Wet Sprocket, an alternative rock band comprised of four white men, stand outside one behind the other, each wearing a dark shirt, in a close...

Date Published
1990
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Volcano Suns

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Volcano Suns, an alternative rock band comprised of three white men, are in the dark holding different varieties of lights under their faces in a...

Date Published
1988
1989
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Will and the Bushmen

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Will and the Bushmen, an indie rock band comprised of four white men, stand in a line leaning on a wall with a chair rail and look at the camera...

Date Published
1989
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Yo

Image

Yo, a garage rock, alternative rock band comprised of two white men and one white woman, sit on a tree branch and laugh as all slant to the left to...

Date Published
1984
1985
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection
  • Clear selected
  • Alternative rock musicians
  • 1981-1990

Member of

  • Grand Emporium Collection (24)

Types

  • photographs (24)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (24)
  • Gelatin silver prints (24)
  • Publicity photographs (23)
  • Group portraits (21)
  • Portrait photographs (2)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (6)
  • (-) 1981-1990 (24)

Subjects

  • Men, White (24)
  • Bands (Music) (19)
  • Women, White (5)
  • Punk rock musicians (4)
  • Rock musicians (4)
  • Guitarists (2)
  • Singers (2)
  • African American men (1)
  • Garage rock music (1)
  • Older men (1)
  • Psychedelic rock music (1)
  • (-) Alternative rock musicians (24)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Crawford, Ed (Guitarist) (3)
  • Hurley, George, 1958- (3)
  • Watt, Mike (3)
  • Dinning, Dean (2)
  • Guss, Randy (2)
  • Nichols, Todd (Guitarist) (2)
  • Phillips, Glen, 1970- (2)
  • Aber, Tom (1)
  • Baylor, Sam (1)
  • Conner, Gary Lee (1)
  • Dresch, Donna (1)
  • Frizzell, Dwight (1)
  • Gordon, Kim, 1953- (1)
  • Kimbrough, Will (1)
  • Lanegan, Mark (1)
  • Moore, Thurston (1)
  • Mould, Bob, 1960- (1)
  • Nixon, Mojo (1)
  • Owings, Bryan (1)
  • Pfaff, Mark (1)
  • Pickerel, Mark (1)
  • Renaldo, Lee (1)
  • Shelley, Steve, 1962- (1)
  • Wright, Jack (Musician) (1)

Date Published

  • 1989 (10)
  • 1990 (9)
  • 1986 (6)
  • 1988 (4)
  • 1985 (2)
  • 1987 (2)
  • 1991 (2)
  • 1982 (1)
  • 1984 (1)
  • 1987-04 (1)
  • 1992 (1)
  • 1993 (1)
  • 1996 (1)
  • 2004 (1)

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