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Spoon are a quartet from Austin with roots in what now seems like a distant golden era: the early-Nineties zenith of alternative rock. In 1993, the year singer-guitarist-songwriter Britt Daniel and drummer Jim Eno founded the group, Nirvana were still a working band, Beck was hot with “Loser” and Smashing Pumpkins were in the Top 10 with Siamese Dream. Daniel, Eno, keyboard player Eric Harvey and bassist Rob Pope are now in a mainstream of their own. Their records don’t go platinum or anywhere near Top 40 radio, but albums such as 2002’s Kill the Moonlight and 2005’s Gimme Fiction are routinely plundered for film scores and TV shows. With that exposure, hardy touring and the loyalty of indie-rock fans, Spoon are big enough to be in the Top 10 themselves — 2007’s Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga debuted there — and headline rooms as big as New York’s Radio City Music Hall.
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