Regulator Watts was a
rock
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band
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from
Washington, D.C.
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from 1996 to 1998. When the band broke up, Dunham formed a new band,
Abilene, and Sless-Kitain joined
Bluetip
Bluetip was an American rock band from Washington, D.C., forming in March 1995 by ex-members of Swiz. They released four albums, an EP, and a number of singles before splitting up in January 2002. Originally, the band was to be named The Ohio Blu ...
.
Style
The band's music resembles that of illustrious predecessor
Hoover, with more of an emphasis on taut, mechanical basslines and feedback-laden, spare guitar lines, as opposed to Hoover's fluid, jazzy basslines and contrasting guitar styles.
Members
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Alex Dunham (guitar/vocals)
*
Areif Dasha Sless-Kitain (drums)
*
Cret Wilson (bass/vocals)
Discography
Albums
*''The Aesthetics of No-Drag'' (
Dischord
Dischord Records is a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label specializing in punk rock. The label is co-owned by Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson, who founded Dischord in 1980 to release ''Minor Disturbance'' by their band The Teen Idles ...
/Slowdime LP/CD, 1997)
*''The Mercury CD'' (Slowdime CD, 1998)
Singles
*"New Low Moline" (Dischord/Slowdime 7", 1997)
References
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Dischord Records artists
Punk rock groups from Washington, D.C.
American post-hardcore musical groups