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Medicine is an alternative noise-pop/rock band from Los Angeles, USA. They were formed in 1991 by guitarist Brad Laner and signed to Rick Rubin's American Recordings label the following year. Medicine was/is considered the American response to such shoegazing bands such as My Bloody Valentine, Ride and Chapterhouse. With a signature guitar tone, created by running guitarist's Brad Laner's guitar through a Yamaha 8-track recorder, Medicine's music managed to distinguish itself from some of the noisier and more ambiguous endeavours of the shoegazing movement.

Medicine performed Thursday night, May 5th, 1994 at CBGB in New York City.

Medicine made a brief appearance as themselves in the film The Crow.

1990s lineup

• Brad Laner: Guitars, Vocals, Keyboards, Bass, Noise.
• Jim Putnam: Guitar
• Annette Zalinskas: Vocals
• Beth Thompson: Vocals
• Jim Goodall: Drums
• Eddie Ruscha: Bass on Shot Forth Self Living
• Justin Meldal-Johnsen: Bass on Her Highness

2000s lineup

• Brad Laner: Guitars, Programming
• Shannon Lee: Vocals

• Shot Forth Self Living (Def American/Creation, 1992)
• The Buried Life (American, 1993)
• Her Highness (American, 1995)
• The Mechanical Forces of Love (Wall of Sound, 2003)

• Aruca (Creation 1992)
• 5ive (a.k.a. Come Here To Drink Milk) (Creation, 1993)
• Never Click (Beggars Banquet, 1993)
• Sounds Of Medicine (American, 1994)
• Time Baby 3 (Beggars Banquet, 1994)
• Off The Vine (double 7") (Ectoplasm, 1995)
• Wet on Wet EP (Wall of Sound, 2002)
• I Smile To My Eyes (Wall of Sound, 2003)
• As You Do (Wall of Sound, 2004)

• The Crow OST (Atlantic, 1994)
• The Doom Generation OST (American, 1994)
• Tigerbeat6 Inc. (Tigerbeat6, 2001)
• The Faint - Danse Macabre Remixes (Astralwerks, 2003)
• Themroc - Into the Light (Wall of Sound, 2003)
• Wall of Sound 10th Anniversary (Wall of Sound, 2003)

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