that dog.

With a spiky yet vulnerable mix of punk, chamber pop, and singer/songwriter confessions, that dog. were a '90s cult favorite who continued their career more than 20 years later. On their 1994 self-titled album and the following year's Totally Crushed Out!, the duality between Anna Waronker's witty, heartfelt songwriting and surging guitars and Rachel and Petra Haden's graceful harmonies and strings was intriguing during the handful of years that the band was initially together, and remarkably influential as time passed. Though that dog. didn't find much success -- "Never Say N...