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Everything’s Blue In This World: Nine Inch Nails’ Further Down The Spiral Turns 25

June 12, 2020June 12, 2020 Raymond Cummings 0 Comments 1995, Aphex Twin, Coil, Further Down The Spiral, Marilyn Manson, nin, Nine Inch Nails, Pretty Hate Machine, Rick Rubin, The Downward Spiral, Trent Reznor

The Downward Spiral remix album is so much more than a remix album

Alternative Rock Rock

Phones, Letters and Frustration: Soul Asylum Meditates On Communication With Hurry Up and Wait

June 5, 2020June 5, 2020 Jedd Beaudoin 0 Comments 2020, Dave Pirner, Hurry Up and Wait, Loud Fast Words, Michael Bland, Minneapolis, Ryan Smith, Soul Asylum, Winston Roye

Dave Pirner talks exclusively with the Rock & Roll Globe about a busy year put on hold

Alternative Rock Experimental Noise

Death Poems for the Living Gods of America: Sonic Youth’s NYC Ghosts and Flowers Turns 20

May 21, 2020May 22, 2020 Dan Weiss 0 Comments 2000, Geffen, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, NYC Ghosts & Flowers, Sonic Youth, Steve Shelley, Thurston Moore

Where Pitchfork went wrong about SY’s most underrated LP

Alternative Rock Pop

“Over My Hot Head, The Wire Was Sparking”: The Breeders’ Pod At 30

May 20, 2020 Zachary Corsa 0 Comments 1990, 30th Anniversary, Belly, Josephine Wiggs, Kelley Deal, Kim Deal, Pod, Tanya Donnelly, The Beatles, The Breeders, The Pixies, Throwing Muses

Many great albums are defined by a singular theme or context, but finally unleashed, Kim Deal feels everything at once on her quintessential band’s debut LP

Alternative Rock

Tubthumping Through The Apocalypse: Chumbawamba’s ‘WYSIWYG’ at 20

May 4, 2020May 4, 2020 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments 2000, Alice Nutter, Chumbawamba, Danbert Nobacon, Dunstan Bruce, Frank Zappa, Lou Watts, The Mothers of Invention, Tubthumper, Tubthumping, WYSIWYG

Looking back at the UK anarchist rockers’ unsung follow-up to their biggest hit

Alternative Rock New Wave Pop

Full Of Artificial Sweetener: No Doubt’s Return Of Saturn at 20

April 27, 2020April 26, 2020 Jordan Blum 0 Comments 2000, Adrian Young, Eric Stefani, Glen Ballard Tony Kanal, Gwen Stefani, No Doubt, Return Of Saturn, Simple Kind Of Life, Tom Dumont, Tragic Kingdom

Gwen and the fellas ushered in the new century with a fussy and fantastic new wave classic

Alternative Rock Hip Hop Punk

WATCH: Post Malone and Co. Blast Through Nirvana Tribute

April 25, 2020April 26, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments Coronavirus, COVID-19, Nirvana, Post Malone, Travis Barker, World Health Organization

If you had any doubt about this kid being the real deal, dig this performance to aid the World Health Organization

Alternative Rock Dub/Reggae Psychedelics

SUSU Deliver New Single “Let’s Get High”

April 24, 2020April 24, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments Ella Warren, Let's Get High, Liza Colby, Liza Colby Sound, Marcia Griffiths, Revel In Dimes, The Breeders, Tricky

Sparks of seductive riddims roll like waves on the NYC group’s sexy new song

Alternative Rock Blues Dance Rock Electronics New Wave Pop

Vows Are Spoken To Be Broken: Thirty Years Of Depeche Mode’s ‘Violator’

April 23, 2020 Zachary Corsa 0 Comments 1990, Alan Wilder, Andy Fletcher, Dave Gahan, Depeche Mode, Enjoy The Silence, Flood, Martin Gore, Personal Jesus, Violator

Looking back at when the world’s biggest synth band plugged in and played the blues

Alternative Rock New Wave Post-Punk

Oh How Their Favours Change: Elastica at 25

April 13, 2020April 13, 2020 Eric Davidson 1 Comment 1995, Blur, Brett Anderson, Catatonia, Damon Albarn, Elastica, Geffen, Justine Frischmann, Kinickie, Powder, Republica, Sleeper, Suede, Wire

if you were around to enjoy it’s streamlined pleasures, Elastica was actually a fairly important album in 1995

Alternative Rock Pop

Building Quirky Birdhouses: They Might Be Giants’ Flood at 30

April 6, 2020April 18, 2020 Jordan Blum 1 Comment 1990, Arto Lindsay, Elektra, Elvis Costello, Flood, John Flansburgh, John Linnell, Madness, Malcolm In The Middle, Paul McCartney, Pete Townshend, Quentin Tarantino, The Teardrop Explodes, They Might Be Giants, Tiny Toons Adventures

Why we need the levity of John Flansburgh and John Linnell’s college radio classic now more than ever

Alternative Rock Music Journalism

Pop Top 40: Modern Rock Tracks for the Week Ending March 24, 1990

April 1, 2020April 1, 2020 Thomas Inskeep 1 Comment Adam Ant, Cowboy Junkies, Depeche Mode, Electronic, Michael Penn, Midnight Oil, Oingo Boingo, Peter Murphy, Pop, Robert Palmer, Sinead O'Connor, Social Distortion, The Beloved, The Blue Nile, The Church, The Cramps, The Creatures, The Smithereens

This is as peak “Poppy Bush Interzone” as it gets

Alternative Rock Emotional Punk Rock aka Emo New Wave Pop Punk Rock

The Racing Pulses: Something To Write Home About

March 30, 2020March 30, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2020, Bon Iver, Fall Out Boy, Kristian Iliev, Panic! At the Disco, Paramore, The Racing Pulses, Violent Femmes

The sharped dressed pop auteurs out of Madison, Wisconsin are one to watch in 2020 as they prep their first new LP in three years

Alternative Rock Country and/or Western North Americana

Dropped To The Sun Alone: Wilco’s A.M. At 25

March 26, 2020March 26, 2020 Zachary Corsa 2 Comments 1995, AM, Jeff Tweedy, John Stirratt, Ken Coomer, Sire, Uncle Tupelo, Wilco

The largely forgotten and much-maligned debut LP from the Chicagoland heroes was not everyone’s cuppa back in 1995

Alternative Rock Pop

The Ballad of Minneapolis Matt

March 25, 2020March 25, 2020 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments Dan Wilson, Jacques Wait, Matt Wilson, Matt Wilson and his Orchestra, Phala Tracy, Quillan Roe, Trip Shakespeare

From Trip Shakespeare to his Orchestra, Matt Wilson is as important to the fabric of Twin Cities pop as Paul Westerberg, Dave Pirner and Bob Mould combined

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