After frontman Bob Mould departed from Hüsker Dü , he released two solo albums, Workbook , which was critically acclaimed, and Black Sheets of Rain . Mould parted ways with Virgin Records in 1991, and toured the world as a solo performer while writing and performing dozens of new songs.…
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They also toured intermittently in the United States between July and December 1991, playing primarily at hard rock and punk clubs, including CBGB and the Whisky a Go Go , where they opened for the Smashing Pumpkins .
Local H released Drum , their first extended play , in 1991.
In mid-1991, the band signed to Columbia Records / Sony Music UK
In mid-1991, the band began to get the attention of the major labels. The first to court them was Maverick — a Warner subsidiary founded by Madonna and music executive Freddy DeMann . Love, however, was uninterested: “[They] would have me riding on elephants. They don’t know what I am.…
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NME magazine wrote in 1991, “[Blur] are [the] acceptable pretty face of a whole clump of bands that have emerged since the whole Manchester thing started to run out of steam.”
In October 1990, after their tour was over, Blur released the single ” She’s So High “, which reached number 48 in the UK singles chart .
Local H was formed in 1990, performing their first show on April 20, 1990, at the University of Wisconsin in Whitewater .
Hole released their no wave -influenced debut single ” Retard Girl ” in April 1990
Food Records finally signed the rechristened band in March 1990.