There's something about bands with three guitarists that just gives you that extra sumpin sumpin when it comes to good bands. Radiohead, Lynyrd Skynyrd, recent Built to Spill, Drive-By Truckers, early Hole....Mariachi Bands(?) all have that layered punch that you can only get by having three people strumming madly with their heads down staring at their feet. Juno is one of those bands. Or were. They broke up in 2001 after two excellent albums. 1999's _This Is The Way It Goes and Goes and Goes_ was perhaps the last bastion of authentic shoegaze, or perhaps the very first of the post-shoegaze/post-rock bands along with Mogwai and Arab Stap, which also formed in 1995. Either way the music they created was vast, smoldering and grand but diverse enough as to not immure them inside the walls of whatever obscure sub-genre they hovered in. I discovered them about a year too late and regrettably they haven't jumped on the bandwagon of mid-90's band reunions with Pixies, Harvey Danger, Presidents of the USA, etc. A few of the members have some sort of collaboration happening on Myspace (shudder) by the name of Ghost Wars but as it is on Myspace (shudder) I haven't looked at it.Anyway, that's my little nugget about Juno. If you've never heard them I recommend you check them out, their "website":http://bosski.com/juno/ is still functioning for some reason and there's a free mp3 on there somewhere.
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