Nü Metal rose to prominence in the mid 1990s and brought a cross-pollinated sound to a generation raised equally on hip-hop and metal

On their 1997 sophomore album In It for the Money, Supergrass arguably made the most interestingly consistent album of the Britpop era

The Verve tightened the songwriting on their 1995 sophomore album A Northern Soul while perfecting their brand of psychedelic Britpop

We revisit Elastica's self-titled 1995 debut with help from music journalist Rob Harvilla, host of 60 Songs That Explain the '90s podcast

After helping define the Britpop sound, Blur turned to American indie rock to find inspiration for their challenging 1997 self-titled album

Jangly American and Australian indie rock meets UK shoegaze and dream pop on Glide's 1995 debut album Open Up and Croon

On her 1997 album Impossible Princess, Kylie Minogue explores trip-hop, trance, Britpop, and unexpected experiments on this uneven release

On their 1993 sophomore and final album Hideout, Antenna crafted a drowsy but melodic guitar rock album made for 1990s college radio

On their sophomore album Dishwalla tried to break the 90s one-hit-wonder with a bigger studio sound and touches of industrial and Britpop

What is Madchester? A sound? A scene? We talk The Stone Roses, Factory Records, Inspiral Carpets, the Hacienda, and more to figure it out

Shaun Ryder picked up the broken pieces of the Happy Mondays for a creative reboot with Black Grape and their 1995 debut album

Tape hiss, four-tracks, and more - we explore the world of lo-fi in the 90s and ask if it's just a recording technique or a genre of music

On their album Split, Lush created a pop-friendly mix of shoegaze and dream pop, but are the layers of reverb and delay dated or timeless?

Who are producers and what do they do? We discuss their impact on albums, varying styles, and more of 1990s music producers

On their fourth album Odyssey Number Five, Powderfinger expertly craft an alternative rock album for rock radio and headphone audiophiles

New Order entered the 90s with a number one record, then split into three different directions, but did it help revitalize the band?

We dive into the 90s phenomenon known as Pop Punk and discuss the distinct sounds, the bands, the albums, and legacy of this Punk offshoot

On his second album as Sparklehorse, Mark Linkous expertly combined painful intimacy and pop exuberance on Good Morning Spider

In the 90s, the Power Pop resurgence etched some mainstream success while firmly holding onto its underdog origins

Mansun expanded the sound on their expansive sophomore album Six, but was it to detriment of the songwriting?

English post-punk cult band The Fall embraced electronic music in the early 90s, creating an uneasy combo with Mark E. Smith's unique vocal

On the Jesus And Mary Chain's 1998 album Munki, is there a great album buried in an overlong and inconsistent seventy minutes of music?

Spacehog scored a massive hit single off their debut, but their follow-up failed to chart, is it a sophomore slump worth revisiting?

Is there more to James 1993 album Laid than a quirky and catchy radio single?

What is Desert Rock? A scene? A sound? We chat with the Desert Age filmmaker to understand what made it so unique.

On their fifth album This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, the Manic Street Preachers process death and depression with radio friendly sheen

The album shifts between rhythm driven “Hindi Pop” and jarring, dissonant indie guitar rock.

What is alternative country an alternative to? Country? Rock?

The third album from Spiritualized is a headphone album of sprawling proportions one moment and cacophony worthy of a stadium the next

We look back at the origins of Electronica, revisit four pivotal albums from 1997, and how this all evolved into the ‘00s.

Scotty Morris of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy talks Swingers, the 1999 Super Bowl and the arc of swing music in the 90s.

We're talking the evolution of Metal in the 1990s, from Metallica to Helmet, Ozzy to Tool, and Kyuss to Pantera

What is Emo? We try to figure that out by diving into the history, the bands, the unique sounds and more

Pioneers of the Britpop sound, we revisit the 1994 sophomore album Dog Man Star by The London Suede

We explore shoegaze - the bands, sounds, albums, guitar pedals and much more that made up this loosely defined sound and group of artists

Who's punk, what's the score? That's what we try to figure out on our roundtable talking punk rock in the 1990s

Sing to God, the 1996 double album by Cardiacs, wants to defy classification, but we're crazy enough to tackle it and try

Mansun's 1997 debut Attack of the Grey Lantern crosses Britpop influences with older American influences in a wildly interesting combination

Your Arsenal by Morrissey is one of the highlights of a hit or miss solo career, but can it match or even exceed his worth with The Smiths?

For better or worse, the uneven 1996 debut The Sun Is Often Out by the Longpigs lands smack dab in the middle of Britpop hysteria

This project frees Bernard Sumner to explore more pop melodies, while Johnny Marr can get lost in the layers of loops and synths.

They are among 90s bands and artists who either surpassed expectations on their second album or sank like the proverbial stone.

Travel back over twenty years in their catalog and tackle the most challenging album of their career.

The lead track and single, Lenny Valentino, gets rave reviews from both of us, but how does the rest of the not-so-similar album stack up?

Dabbling equally in Britpop and American alternative, Nu-Clear Sounds bounces from delicate ballads to fuzzed-out rave-ups in an instant

Chrome hinted at a heavier sound from the band though their earlier shoegaze influences were still evident - not so on Happy Days

Travis combine the brit-pop guitar bombast with the melodies and hooks of the Kinks, topped off with stellar Steve Lillywhite production

As fans of Vanishing Point, XTRMNTR and Screamadelica can tell you, Give Out... is a hard one to figure out.

Combining the long-form jams of The Verve with the attitude and pop-sensibility of Oasis.

The Wendys were a part of the early 90s Madchester scene, but do The Wendys stack up to those legendary bands?

In the thirteenth episode of the Dig Me Out Podcast, Tim and Jason review the 1996 album This World and Body by Marion.