Pearls Before Swine Band Mastermind Tom Rapp Dead at 70

Tom Rapp, the leader of the beloved psych rock outfit Pearls Before Swine and a longtime civil rights lawyer, died in hospice at his home in Melbourne, Florida. He was 70.A representative for the record label Drag City, reissued Pearls Before Swine's debut One Nation Underground last year, confirmed the musician's death.Rapp was born in North Dakota and grew up in the upper midwest. He received his first guitar at age six. He took to the instrument immediately and in a 1998 interview w