Uncle Tupelo was an alternative country music group from Belleville,
Illinois, active between 1987 and 1994. Jay Farrar (pictured), Jeff
Tweedy, and Mike Heidorn formed the band after the lead singer of their
previous band, The Primitives, left to attend college. The trio recorded
three albums for Rockville Records, before signing with Sire Records and
expanding to a five-piece. Shortly after the release of the band's major
label debut album Anodyne, Farrar announced his decision to leave the
band due to a soured relationship with his co-songwriter Tweedy. Uncle
Tupelo split on May 1, 1994, after completing a farewell tour. Following
the breakup, Farrar formed Son Volt with Heidorn, while the remaining
members continued as Wilco. Although Uncle Tupelo broke up before they
achieved commercial success, the band is renowned for its impact on the
alternative country music scene. The group's first album, No Depression,
became a byword for the genre and was widely influential. Uncle Tupelo's
sound was unlike popular country music of the time, drawing inspiration
from styles as diverse as the hardcore punk of The Minutemen and the
country instrumentation and harmony of the Carter Family and Hank
Williams. Farrar and Tweedy lyrics frequently referred to Middle America
and the working class of Belleville.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tupelo>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1782:
Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail made its
premiere, after which Emperor Joseph II anecdotally made the complaint
that it had "too many notes".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Entf%C3%BChrung_aus_dem_Serail>
1790:
U.S. President George Washington signed the Residence Act,
selecting a new permanent site along the Potomac River for the capital
of the United States, which later became Washington, D.C.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.>
1945:
Manhattan Project: "Trinity", the first nuclear test explosion,
was carried out near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test)>
1951:
The Catcher in the Rye, an American coming-of-age novel by J.
D. Salinger, was first published.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye>
1994:
Fragments of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 began hitting the planet
Jupiter (impact site pictured), with the first one causing a fireball
which reached a peak temperature of about 24,000 K.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker%E2%80%93Levy_9>
2007:
A magnitude 6.6 MW earthquake struck Niigata Prefecture,
Japan, causing a leak of radioactive gases from the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa
Nuclear Power Plant.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Ch%C5%ABetsu_offshore_earthquake>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
quisling:
(pejorative) A traitor who collaborates with the enemy.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quisling>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous
absolutists, the sooner we can move along.
--Sheri S. Tepper
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sheri_S._Tepper>
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