About Acetone
Hometown
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Formed
1987
Genre
Alternative
Largely passed by in the alternative music sweepstakes of the mid-'90s, Acetone pursued indie rock with influences from two of their Southern California forebears, the Beach Boys and Gram Parsons, with plenty of the Velvet Underground thrown in as well. The band's early material -- such as their self-titled debut EP and the album Cindy, both released in 1993 -- was built around simple song structures and plenty of noisy guitar tracks. By 1996's If You Only Knew, they'd turned down their amps and taken on a warmer, more languid sound. 2000's York Blvd., which would prove to be their final LP, saw their noisy and contemplative sides peacefully coexisting, sometimes within the same songs. The death of bassist Richie Lee in 2001 led to the band's breakup, but the 2023 box set I'm Still Waiting collected their recorded catalog in loving homage to their legacy.
Members of Acetone include, or have included, Richie Lee.
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