Hoover!

Hoover, formed in Washington, D.C., in the summer of 1992, may have only existed briefly (they broke up in the spring of 1994), but the band had a tremendous impact on post-hardcore music. Early on, Hoover was wrongly dubbed a Fugazi copycat, but played intense, angular, ominous music (to which late-'90s Fugazi may actually owe a debt) thanks to the otherworldly rhythm section of Fred Erskine on bass/vocals and Chris Farral on drums and the shattering dual guitar and vocal onslaught of Joe McRedmond and Al Dunham. With two explosive singles released in 1993, Hoover proved th...