The 1996 album Local by Ho-Hum mines 70s and 80s power pop and new wave with a Midwestern twist for a catchy if overlong debut

Joe Pernice talks 90s alt country with the Scud Mountain Boys, reissuing the Pernice Brothers 1998 debut Overcome by Happiness, and more

On their fourth record Fight Songs, the Old 97s refined their alternative country rock sound with a cleaner, genre-hopping sound

On his fourth album Burn To Shine, Ben Harper swings the pendulum between darkly brooding 70s-inflected blues rock and radio-friendly pop

Always out of step with the 90s alternative rock explosion, The Black Crowes released their most confident album with 1994's Amorica

Can southern rock jam band Widespread Panic successfully capture their legendary live performance on the studio album Bombs and Butterflies?

On Less Is More, Melbourne trio Even competently integrate 90s alternative and grunge sounds with power pop and British invasion melodies

The Walkabouts 1993 album Satisfied Mind collects a wide variety of artists for folk, country, and Americana covers for a timeless album

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

On the 1998 album Since, Richard Buckner crafts an album that manages to sound grounded in tradition but timeless in execution

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

The band expands upon Vaughan’s blues template and mildly dips its toes in more pop and radio friendly territory.

With The Replacements and Husker Du, the twin cities were an 80s punk rock mecca , but the story of the 90s is much deeper.

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

Marko DeSantis of Sugarcult, The Ataris and more joins us for an indepth discussion on growing up in Santa Barbara, Sweet Relief and more.

As with all tributes, artists stay close to the original version while others radically reinterpret, and that’s the case with Twisted Willie

After scoring a hit “Fly Me Courageous," Drivin' N Cryin' returned with an ode to the classic rock riffage of AC/DC, Aerosmith & Hendrix.

Twenty years since being released, we revisit the 1995 debut of Jay Farrar's post-Uncle Tupelo band Son Volt

The 90s were influential, but which bands became influential we didn't expect? And which should have been influential but faded away?

Acetone's 1997 album recalls the slow and deliberate sound of Low, causing extreme disagreement in every aspect of our review

Sit down in a comfortable chair or hop in the car for a long drive, because Matthew Sweet is here and we've got a lot of questions

Neil Finn may be known for his two hit singles with Crowded House in the 1980s, but Together Alone may be his best overall album

Steeped in the alt-country that rose to prominence with bands like Uncle Tupelo and The Jayhawks, we check out Faithless by Whiskeytown

Can the youth appreciate power pop? Can music be too good for radio? Those are questions as we discuss Prize by Wanderlust

The varied styles of Uncle Tupelo's co-lead singers/songwriters Jeff Tweedy and Jay Farrar helped define Alt-Country and create a classic