Tuscadero - Step Into Wiggle Room (1995) and similar items

Catalog Number: teenbeat179LP Condition Details: Vinyl plays nicely (play-graded). Cover has a few creases near edges; light-scuffing, surface impressions (front/back). Inner-sleeve is original (generic white). Spine is clean and easy-to-read. Minor shelf-wear along top-edge, slightly heavier across bottom-edge and corners. Opening shows signs of use and divots. (Not a cut-out.) Tracks: Holidays R' Hell Angel In A Half Shirt Poster Boy Palmer: The All-Star Jam Given Up Sonic Yogurt The Sways Dreams Of The Tanker About The Record: Step Into My Wiggle Room, by Tuscadero, is the second studio album by the Washington, D.C.-based indie rock band, released in 1995 on the influential TeenBeat Records label. The album features eight tracks, including Holidays R' Hell, Angel in a Half Shirt, Poster Boy, Dreams of the Tanker, The Sways, Given Up, Sonic Yogurt, and Palmer: The All-Star Jam, showcasing the band's signature cutesy punk-pop style inspired by '70s junk culture, television nostalgia, teenage crushes, and parental conflicts. Led by vocalists and guitarists Melissa Farris and Margaret McCartney, along with bassist Steve Fett and drummer Bill Morrison, the record blends poetic lyrics with a cool, energetic vibe that resonated in the indie underground scene. Historically significant as part of the mid-1990s wave of all-female-fronted indie bands, it contributed to Tuscadero's cult following and directly led to their signing with Elektra Records in 1996, marking a transition from indie to major label status amid the era's burgeoning alternative rock movement. Tracks like Angel in a Half Shirt and Poster Boy?re-recorded from earlier 7-inch singles?stand out as fan favorites and key examples of the band's playful, infectious sound.