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New Reviews
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - Letter To You (Documentary)
For the first time since 1984's Born In The USA, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band recorded live in the studio to make their newest album …
Jeff Tweedy - Love Is The King
Wilco leader Jeff Tweedy returns with a quarantine album recorded with his sons Spencer and Sammy …
New 90s Episode
Southern Culture on the Skids - Dirt Track Date
Combining old school rockabilly and country on 1995's Dirt Track Date, Southern Culture on the Skids filter it through 1980s college rock
For every obvious major label signing in the mid-90s trying to capitalize on the success of a variety of Seattle-sounding guitar bands, there was an equal number of head-scratchers that seem to make little sense in retrospect. Take Southern Culture on the Skids, a North Carolina rockabilly outfit that had kicked around since the mid-80s, but found a home on Geffen Records alongside Weezer, Sonic Youth, Veruca Salt, and White Zombie for their 1995 release Dirt Track Date. What the three-piece had going for them is a tight unit of skilled players steeped in American music history, smoothly transitioning from steel-pedal Hawaiian influenced ballads to B-52s-esque kitschy minimalist pop. Dirt Track Date may have only made the slightest dent thanks to its quirky single "Camel Walk," but like the swing revival, the attempt at recapturing the sounds of the past comes across as earnest rather than nostalgic. Eric Peterson - DMO Union
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New Releases
Elvis Costello - Hey Clockface
Elvis Costello's 31st album recorded in Helskini, Paris and New York with multiple musical combos featuring players that include longtime sideman Steve Nieve, guitarist Bill Frisell and Wilco’s Nels Cline.
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Mr. Bungle - The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny Demo
The 11-song release features tracks written by the band for their 1986 cassette only demo as well as a reimagined cover of "Hypocrites / Habla Español O Muere" by S.O.D. and CORROSION OF CONFORMITY's "Loss For Words".
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Goo Goo Dolls - It's Christmas All Over
Holiday album from the veteran Buffalo, NY alternative rock band.
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Eels - Earth To Dora
Thirteenth studio album from the Mark Oliver Everett led band.
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Midnight Oil - The Makarrata Project
A themed mini-album of collaborations with Indigenous artists. The band will donate its share of any proceeds it receives from this release to organizations which seek to elevate The Uluru Statement From The Heart in particular and Indigenous reconciliation more broadly.
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Puscifer - Existential Reckoning
Four album from Tool's Maynard James Keenan. Featuring Greg Edwards (Failure and Autolux) and English singer/songwriter Carina Round.
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Ken Andrews - What's Coming
New digital solo EP from Failure frontman.
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🎙 From the podcast archive
Son Volt - Trace
Twenty years since being released, we revisit the 1995 debut of Jay Farrar's post-Uncle Tupelo band Son Volt Released: 1995 Label: Warner Bros Producer: Brian Paulson, Son Volt
Alternative Country in the 90s - Genre Dissection - Roundtable
What is alternative country an alternative to? Country? Rock?
Chicago in the 90s - Digging Your Scene - Roundtable
Our first Digging Your Scene roundtable takes us to the bands, venues, record stores, legacy and more of Chicago in the 1990s
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