Arson Garden

Arson Garden -- Alternative Rock Band. Arson Garden was a popular Bloomington band from 1987 to 1994. The five-piece band was fronted by dynamic singer April Combs. Her brother James Combs played guitar in the group and wrote most of the songs. Produced by Paul Mahern, a self-titled cassette in 1988 fell into the hands of Albert Garzon, who signed Arson Garden to the Brooklyn-based Community 3 Records. The debut album, Under Towers (1990), was critically acclaimed and placed them on the College Media Journal charts and on MTV's 120 Minutes. Tours of the U.S. and Europe followed, and the band appeared at the Lollopalooza Festival in 1992. The band's third and last album, the Belle Stomp (1994), was recorded at Pachyderm Studios in Minnesota, where Nirvana recorded. Although more ambitious than the previous two, the last album did not help the band reach a mainstream audience, so the group broke up in the same year.