Acetone

Largely passed by in the alternative music sweepstakes of the mid-'90s, Acetone pursued indie rock with influences from two of their Southern California forebears, the Beach Boys and Gram Parsons, with plenty of the Velvet Underground thrown in as well. The band's early material -- such as their self-titled debut EP and the album Cindy, both released in 1993 -- was built around simple song structures and plenty of noisy guitar tracks. By 1996's If You Only Knew, they'd turned down their amps and taken on a warmer, more languid sound, and 2000's York Blvd., which would prove to...