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The band Violent Femmes was founded in 1980. Before coming to fame, the band got it’s start in Milwaukee. Generally, music journalists would define Violent Femmes’s style within the genre/s of alternative rock, and other rock music.
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Pixies
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Cake
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Frank Black
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Meat Puppets
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Minutemen
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Weezer
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Hüsker Dü
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Throwing Muses
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They Might Be Giants
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