“Once upon a time in the land of San Francisco (1989, to be exact), there was a band called Swell. Those were heady times, they were. Grunge was still underground, and the Pixies were making a racket all the way across America from Boston. Swell managed to hear some Pixies records, and it forever changed the way they played music. At least, that's what I'm assuming, since that's the backstory for b”