Hit Man Dreams by the underappreciated San Diego band No Knife showcases the band's unique blend of post-hardcore, indie rock, and emo

Angular, dissonant guitars dominate Flu Thirteen's 1998 sophomore album in the post-hardcore territory of At The Drive-in, Cursive, and more

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

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

The intimate minimalism of Pinback's 1999 self-titled debut paralleled the downbeat post-hardcore of the era but left us wanting more

Ten years after disagreeing over Seaweed's 1993 album Four, we give the 1995 major label follow-up Spanaway a chance to mend the fracture

Can a band still make a masterpiece even as they're falling apart? We revisit the 1995 sophomore self-titled album by Sunny Day Real Estate

After a 3-year hiatus, R.E.M. started the 90s with Out Of Time and evolved musically throughout a turbulent decade of change for the band

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

On their 1999 debut, This Is The Way It Goes And Goes And Goes, Juno craft a layered album worthy of the format

We revisit the landmark 1991 Slint album Spiderland and ask - can an influential album be outshined by its influences?

The Promise Ring twist and turn pop structures to unique results on their 1997 album Nothing Feels Good

In another dimension, 1993's Frosting On The Beater elevated The Posies the biggest band in the world, instead of a masterful footnote

On their third album Tin Cans With Strings To You, Far become victims of the loudness wars while taking post hardcore in a new direction

Tim Kasher of The Good Life and Cursive stops by to talk about his new solo album No Resolution out on his new label 15 Passenger.

Building by Sense Field packs concise, urgent songs with guitar and vocal hooks that touch on indie, punk, emo and more.

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

Carnival Art experiment with new wave, metal and more, rarely staying one idea for very long, for better or worse.

The 1994 album Tatoonie by Blind Mr. Jones features several shoegaze touchtones but deeper listens reveal nods to power pop and Britpop

Stephen Brodsky of Cave In, Mutoid Man and other bands talks with us about learning guitar, metalcore, dealing with fan backlash and more

A unique story and influential band on emo and post-hardcore bands.

Clarity represents musical highpoint for not only emo, but rock music at the end of the 20th Century.

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Are they punk? Are the emo? Are they pre-emo? Are they post-punk?