But the most exciting January release, at least for me, is also a blast from the past: No Cities to Love, the first new album in 10 years from Sleater-Kinney, a key band in the riot grrrl feminist punk subculture that emerged from the Pacific north-west in the early Nineties.
His fateful decision in 1974 remains one of rock's most unexpected line-up changes ever, a departure from the usual 'creative differences', the typical excuse when a key band member is kicked to the curb.
The only thing holding back a reunion might be one key band member -- Posh Spice, aka Victoria Beckham. .
They were one of the key bands on Factory Records, inspiring the title of the film 24 Hour Party People.
Along with the Kingsmen they were one of the key bands of the American garage rock scene and have been cited as a key influence on punk and proto-punk bands such as the Stooges.
On Sunday Night At 10, Laycock spend the first half-hour on British dance band music from the 1920s and 1930s, which included such key bands as Ambrose and Lew Stone and the vocalists, Al Bowlly and Sam Browne.
"Jeff's a very private person," says fellow Elephant 6 mainstay Bill Doss, co-founder of one of E6's other key bands, the Olivia Tremor Control, "and kids were freaking out over him.
The Scientists, one of the key bands in Australia's late-70s punk and garage-rock explosion, have slowly developed a cult reputation out of all proportion to their popularity first time around, especially as heroes to scores of Seattle grunge bands.
Uriah Heep One of key bands who inspired the Tap, the long-lived and resolutely unfashionable Heep enjoyed commercial success, especially in America, for three decades, and plodded on despite critical indifference or scorn, enduring more than 30 changes in personnel (particularly with drummers) and two deaths.
Fig. 8 Representative Raman spectra of samples from the Jokhang temple wall paintings, with key bands labelled for the identification of pigments.
To those who tracked key bands and artists on the punk and post-punk timeline – the Ramones, The Clash, The Replacements, Fugazi, Dinosaur Jr., the Pixies – the arrival of Nevermind and its 30 million-selling ascent to world domination represented a triumph of these values.
