On the surface Negative Example can be confounding to new audiences. They're a rock band at the core, but the songs are often shaded with dissonant chord voicings and unpredictable arrangements that are buffered by a two guitar, electric piano front line. The Stones with Thelonious Monk sitting in? The songs have big hooks but you sometimes don't feel them coming till hit you in the heart. Neg Ex write some crazy music, but if it don't kill you it'll make you stronger. “In the mid-’80s, Bucky Pope was the singer and guitarist in Tar Babies, a band from Ma…
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