90 Day Men is a progressive rock

Progressive rock

Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...

 band formed in 1995 in St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis, Missouri

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 and later based out of Chicago, Illinois. Their name is a slang

Slang

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 term used by corrections officers to refer to prison

Prison

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 inmates who are slated to undergo psychiatric examination.

History

The group began as an early post-hardcore

Post-hardcore

Post-hardcore is a genre of music that developed from hardcore punk, itself an offshoot of the broader punk rock movement. Like post-punk, post-hardcore is a term for a broad constellation of groups...

 band, similar to that of Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville, Kentucky

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 groups such as Slint

Slint

Slint was an American rock band consisting of Brian McMahan , David Pajo , Britt Walford , Todd Brashear and Ethan Buckler...

 and June of 44

June of 44

June of 44 was an American rock band which was formed in 1994 from ex-members of Rodan, Lungfish, Rex, and Hoover. The band's music is often described as 'math rock'. The band's name refers the period during which erotic fiction writers Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin corresponded.The band toured...

. Formed as a trio in 1995 by Brian Case, Cayce Key and Chandler McWilliams, they released their first 7" single in 1996 entitled, "Taking Apart the Vessel"

Robert Lowe joined the group in 1997 on trumpet and vocals but later moved to bass when McWilliams departed. Their first recording with this lineup was the 1997 7" single "If You Can Bake a Cake, You Can Build a Bomb", followed by an EP

Extended play

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 on Temporary Residence in 1998. In late 1998 they signed with Southern Records

Southern Records

Southern Records is an independent record label closely associated with Crass Records, Corpus Christi Records and Dischord Records. It is based in London and previously had offices in Chicago , Le Havre and Berlin .Southern was originally a recording studio owned and operated by John Loder...

, who released their first full-length, entitled (It (Is) It) Critical Band, in 2000; by this time keyboardist Andy Lansangan had joined the group. Two further LPs followed; 2004's Panda Park was the subject of significant critical acclaim.

Bandmember Robert Lowe now has a solo project called Lichens

Lichens (musician)

Lichens is the name of Robert A.A. Lowe's musical project, created for performance and recording solo and with collaborators.Lowe was previously a member of 90 Day Men before beginning his solo project. In live performances, Lichens commonly features looping wordless vocals, acoustic and electric...

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Guitarist Brian Case played in the Chicago garage rock band The Ponys and now plays in Disappears

Disappears

Disappears is a rock band from Chicago formed in 2008. The band plays a mixture of shoegaze, krautrock and garage rock.The band was formed by Brian Case and Graeme Gibson and fleshed out with guitarist Jonathan Van Herik and bassist Damon Carruesco. They played Pitchfork Music Festival in 2009.In...

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Drummer Cayce Key now plays in Bloodiest.

Discography

• Taking Apart the Vessel EP (Self-Released, 1996)
• If You Can Bake a Cake, You Can Build a Bomb EP (Action Boy, 1997)
• 1975-1977-1998 EP (Temporary Residence, 1998) This CD contains the "If You Can Bake a Cake, You Can Build a Bomb 7"
• Split with GoGoGoAirheart (Box Factory Records, 2000)
• (It (Is) It) Critical Band (Southern Records
  Southern Records
  Southern Records is an independent record label closely associated with Crass Records, Corpus Christi Records and Dischord Records. It is based in London and previously had offices in Chicago , Le Havre and Berlin .Southern was originally a recording studio owned and operated by John Loder...
  
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• To Everybody (Southern, 2002)
• Too Late or Too Dead EP (Southern, 2003)
• Panda Park (Southern, 2004)

External links

• 90 Day Men Myspace Page