If anything, Sheffield, England's Arctic Monkeys are a harbinger of the second coming of Brit pop. Hailing from the same geographical terrain that gave the world Jarvis Cocker and Def Leppard, this four-piece outfit combines high and low culture with dash and a snotty confidence that belie a band that began life in a college classroom. Alex Turner and Matt Helders found common cause at Barnsley College in 2002, after discovering that they both had unreasonable devotio! n to the musi...
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