Criteria, Green Day, and Giants Chair
New music and the latest from the podcast
New Music Out Now
Green Day - Father of All... (Amazon)
Lisa Loeb - A Simple Trick To Happiness (Amazon)
Nada Surf - Never Not Together (Amazon)
Stone Temple Pilots - Perdida (Amazon)
Sepultura - Quadra (Amazon)
Mark Kozelek with Ben Boye and Jim White - Mark Kozelek with Ben Boye and Jim White 2 (Amazon)
Drive-By Truckers - The Unraveling (Amazon)
Wire - Mind Hive (Amazon)
Supergrass - The Strange Ones: 1994 - 2008 (Amazon)
Criteria - Years (Amazon)
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - X: The Godless Void and Other Stories (Amazon)
Anti-Flag - 20/20 Vision (Amazon)
Of Montreal - Ur Fun (Amazon)
Sons of Apollo - MMXX (Amazon)
Apocalyptica - Cell-0 (Amazon)
New music coming soon
February 21
Greg Dulli - Random Desire (Amazon)
Guided by Voices - Surrender Your Poppy Field (Amazon)
Mondo Generator - Fuck It (Amazon)
Lee Ranaldo and Raül Refree - Names Of North End Women (Amazon)
Ozzy Osbourne - Ordinary Man (Amazon)
February 28
Mondo Generator - Shooters Bible (Amazon)
March 6
Body Count - Carnivore (Amazon)
Cornershop - England Is A Garden (Amazon)
Moby - All Visible Objects (Amazon)
Stephen Malkmus - Traditional Techniques (Amazon)
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - Blue Moon Rising (Amazon)
Giants Chair - Red And Clear
We unexpectedly undercover a 90s Kansas City post-punk math rock scene with Steve Muczynski, DMO Union member
It took twenty-three years for Giants Chair to follow-up their 1996 sophomore album Purity And Control with the 2019 album Prefabylon, which we discussed briefly in our 2019 New Albums Roundtable. Though we've covered plenty of 90s bands reuniting a decade or two later to make new records, prior to Prefabylon Giants Chair weren't on our radar. Thanks to one of our patrons we got the chance to revisit this Kansas City, Missouri band's 1995 debut. While the post-punk math-rock sounds fit nicely into our previously expressed admiration for bands such as Jawbox, Shudder To Think and Quicksand, as well as the neighboring Shiner, we didn't expect to unearth a local scene that included Season To Risk, Molly McGuire, Boys Life, and others all dishing out their own versions of angular guitars, tricky rhythms, and indie/emo vocals. Perhaps aDigging Your Scene episode is in the future, but on this one, we got to dive into this three-piece and their unique take on mid-90s post-punk.
So, We Had Another Tie
Our February roundtable poll ended in another of our infamous ties. Rather than drag this out, we took a look at the data, the exit polling information (i.e. your comments), and have come to the conclusion that, actually, you not only picked our February roundtable but our March roundtable as well. Good job!
So for February, we'll be doing "In The 90s" on R.E.M. To be honest, we should have had an R.E.M. episode in the books by now, but for whatever reason, that hasn't happened. Time to rectify!
That means for March we'll take the other half of the tie, Sophomore Slump Revisited, and revisit the 1994 Dada album "American Highway Flower." You may be asking, but guys, was Puzzle really successful enough to warrant a SSR episode, and we say... wait for the episode. Or check Wikipedia.
Episode Coming Soon: Satisfied Mind by The Walkabouts
Thanks to a selection by Peter M., coming soon we'll be checking out the 1993 album Satisfied Mind released on Sub Pop, the sixth release by The Walkabouts.