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Mazzy Star: She Hangs Brightly

David Cavanagh, Select, July 1990

MAZZY STAR is the latest project of David Roback, a seminal, limelight-shunning Los Angeles underground figure who put together the original Rain Parade in the early '80s only to be ousted just before their '84 debut album by a disgruntled cartel that included his bass-playing brother Steven.

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