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The Hugs

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The Hugs are an indie pop and psychedelic garage rock band from Portland, Oregon, United States. [1]

50 relations: Alternative rock, American Broadcasting Company, Awkward (TV series), Bloc Party, British Invasion, Carl Barât, Cleveland High School (Portland, Oregon), Columbia Records, Franz Ferdinand (band), Gap Inc., Garage rock, Girls (TV series), Guns N' Roses, Gus Van Sant, HBO, Indie pop, Interview (magazine), KNRK, Lena Dunham, Liam Watson (record producer), London, Mike Smith (A&R man), MTV, Myspace, Neo-psychedelia, New York Post, NME, Noel Fielding, Oasis (band), Pavement (band), Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, Post-punk revival, Psychedelic rock, Slednecks, Sony BMG, The Guardian Weekly, The Kingsmen, The Kinks, The Lemonheads, The Libertines, The Lying Game (season 1), The Monkees, The Portland Mercury, The Strokes, The Yardbirds, Toe Rag Studios, Willamette Week, Wipers, 1965 Records.

Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Awkward (TV series)

Awkward is an American teen comedy series created by Lauren Iungerich for MTV.

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Bloc Party

Bloc Party are an English rock band, currently composed of Kele Okereke (lead vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards, sampler), Russell Lissack (lead guitar, keyboards), Justin Harris (bass guitar, keyboards, saxophones, backing vocals) and Louise Bartle (drums, percussion).

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British Invasion

The British Invasion was a cultural phenomenon of the mid-1960s when rock and pop music acts from the United Kingdom and other aspects of British culture, became popular in the United States and significant to rising "counterculture" on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Carl Barât

Carl Ashley Raphael Barât (born 6 June 1978) is a British musician, best known for being the co-frontman with Peter Doherty of the garage rock band The Libertines.

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Cleveland High School (Portland, Oregon)

Cleveland High School is a public high school in inner southeast Portland, Oregon, United States.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Franz Ferdinand (band)

Franz Ferdinand are a Scottish indie rock band, formed in 2002 and based in Glasgow.

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Gap Inc.

The Gap, Inc., commonly known as Gap Inc. or Gap, (stylized as GAP) is an American worldwide clothing and accessories retailer.

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Garage rock

Garage rock (sometimes called 60s punk or garage punk) is a raw and energetic style of rock and roll that flourished in the mid-1960s, most notably in the United States and Canada, and has experienced various revivals in the last several decades.

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Girls (TV series)

Girls is an American HBO television series created by and starring Lena Dunham and executive produced by Judd Apatow.

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Guns N' Roses

Guns N' Roses, often abbreviated as GNR, is an American hard rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1985.

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Gus Van Sant

Gus Green Van Sant, Jr. (born July 24, 1952) is an American film director, screenwriter, painter, photographer, musician and author who has earned acclaim as both an independent and more mainstream filmmaker.

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HBO

Home Box Office (HBO) is an American premium cable and satellite television network of Home Box Office, Inc..

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Indie pop

Indie pop (also typeset as indie-pop or indiepop) is a music genre and subculture that combines guitar pop with DIY ethic in opposition to the style and tone of mainstream pop music.

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Interview (magazine)

Interview was an American magazine founded in late 1969 by artist Andy Warhol and British journalist John Wilcock.

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KNRK

KNRK is a commercial, modern AC-leaning Alternative rock music radio station broadcasting to the Portland, Oregon area on 94.7 FM.

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Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham (born May 13, 1986) is an American actress, writer, producer, and director.

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Liam Watson (record producer)

Liam Watson is a British record producer and owner of Toe Rag Studios.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Mike Smith (A&R man)

Mike Smith is Managing Director at Warner/Chappell Music UK, part of the global music publishing arm of Warner Music Group.

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks (a division of Viacom) and headquartered in New York City.

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Myspace

Myspace (stylized as MySpace) is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos.

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Neo-psychedelia

Neo-psychedelia is a genre of psychedelic music that originated in the 1970s as an outgrowth of the British post-punk scene, also called acid punk.

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New York Post

The New York Post is the fourth-largest newspaper in the United States and a leading digital media publisher that reached more than 57 million unique visitors in the U.S. in January 2017.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.

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Noel Fielding

Noel Fielding (born 21 May 1973) is an English comedian, writer, actor, artist, musician and television presenter.

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Oasis (band)

Oasis were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1991.

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Pavement (band)

Pavement was an American indie rock band that formed in Stockton, California in 1989.

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Portland State University

Portland State University (PSU) is a public research university located in the southwest University District of downtown Portland, Oregon, United States.

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Portland, Oregon

Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County.

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Post-punk revival

Post-punk revival (also known as "new wave revival", "garage rock revival"J. Stuessy and S. D. Lipscomb, Rock and roll: its History and Stylistic Development (London: Pearson Prentice Hall, 5th edn., 2006),, p. 451. or "new rock revolution") is a genre of alternative rock and indie rock that developed in the late 1990s and early 2000s, inspired by the original sounds and aesthetics of garage rock of the 1960s and new wave and post-punk of the 1980s.

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Psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock is a diverse style of rock music inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelic culture, which is centred around perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs.

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Slednecks

Slednecks is an American reality television series about a group of friends living in Wasilla, Alaska that premiered on MTV on October 30, 2014.

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Sony BMG

Sony BMG Music Entertainment was a multinational record label, which was a 50–50 joint venture between the Sony Corporation of America and Bertelsmann Music Group.

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The Guardian Weekly

The Guardian Weekly is an internationally focused English-language newspaper based in London, UK.

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The Kingsmen

The Kingsmen are a 1960s beat/garage rock band from Portland, Oregon, United States.

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The Kinks

The Kinks are an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, North London, in 1964 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies.

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The Lemonheads

The Lemonheads are an American alternative rock band formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1986 by Evan Dando, Ben Deily, and Jesse Peretz.

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The Libertines

The Libertines are an English rock band, formed in London in 1997 by frontmen Carl Barât (vocals/guitar) and Pete Doherty (vocals/guitar).

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The Lying Game (season 1)

The first season of The Lying Game, based on the books of the same name by Sara Shepard, premiered on August 15, 2011 and concluded on March 5, 2012 on ABC Family.

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The Monkees

The Monkees were an American rock and pop band originally active between 1966 and 1971, with reunion albums and tours in the decades that followed.

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The Portland Mercury

The Portland Mercury is an alternative weekly newspaper and media company founded in 2000 in Portland, Oregon.

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The Strokes

The Strokes are an American rock band from New York City.

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The Yardbirds

The Yardbirds are an English rock band, formed in London in 1963.

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Toe Rag Studios

Toe Rag Studios is an analogue recording studio located in Hackney, London, England.

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Willamette Week

Willamette Week (WW) is an alternative weekly newspaper and a website published in Portland, Oregon, United States, since 1974.

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Wipers

Wipers was a punk rock group formed in Portland, Oregon in 1977 by guitarist Greg Sage, along with drummer Sam Henry and bassist Dave Koupal.

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1965 Records

1965 Records is a London-based subsidiary record label of SonyBMG.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hugs

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