While their slacker neighbors in late-'90s Austin were busy toiling in obscurity making Gordian prog-punk or bluegrass covers of Snoop Dogg, Spoon obsessed over the Pixies, over-achieved, and got a major indie (and then a major) deal out of it. But even as they quickly got dropped from Elektra and dropped a single dissing their a&r man in response, so too did the band begin shedding those unwanted pounds—first thing to go was frontman Britt Daniel's Black Francis fatsuit, resulting in Spoon's svelte and wiry (hell, they even covered... More >>>