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Earlimart

Earlimart is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Elliott Smith, Pavement, Pixies, Sonic Youth and Sparklehorse. Those roots explain a lot about how Earlimart arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Jason Lytle, White Rabbits, Eels, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and The Rosebuds, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Grandaddy, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 27 connections around Earlimart, reaching back through Elliott Smith and forward to Grandaddy. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Earlimart is an American indie rock band formed in 1998 in Los Angeles, California, United States, and named after the town of Earlimart, California. The main members are Aaron Espinoza and Ariana Murray. Their early sound has been described as "post-punk", and compared to that of Pavement, Pixies, Sonic Youth and Sparklehorse; later music has been compared to that of Grandaddy and Elliott Smith. In 2009, Espinoza and Murray joined with Jason Lytle and Aaron Burtch of Grandaddy to record an album entitled I Heart California, which was released in 2010 under the name Admiral Radley.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
EarlimartElliott SmithPavementPixiesSonic YouthSparklehorseGrandaddyGrandaddyJason LytleWhite RabbitsEelsClap Your Hands Say …The RosebudsStephen MalkmusSomeone Still Loves …Shearwater

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Earlimart grew out of Elliott Smith, Pavement, Pixies and Sonic Youth, shares an orbit with Jason Lytle, White Rabbits, Eels and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, went on to shape Grandaddy. 27 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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