Old 97s, Hüsker Dü, & Morphine
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New Reviews
Alain Johannes - Hum
After releasing a pair of soundtrack albums for Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon video game series, Chilean-American multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Alain Johannes is back with Hum …
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James Dean Bradfield - Even In Exile
Manic Street Preachers lead singer/guitarist James Dean Bradfield's second solo album, Even In Exile, is a collection of songs about …
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New 80s Episode
Hüsker Dü - Flip Your Wig
What is hardcore? What is punk? What is thrash? Does it even matter if it's good? While so many of their contemporaries failed to evolve beyond their first or second album, Hüsker Dü seemed to relish the challenge of reinvention, forgoing the trappings and expectations of punk and hardcore and evolving on each record. With their second release of 1985, Flip Your Wig might be the band at its songwriting peak, with Bob Mould and Grant Hart writing anthemic choruses backed by searing guitar lines and urgent rhythms that would inspire a generation of musicians to come. But while the songwriting matured to inspirational heights, the spotty production of the early years remains, leaving us scratching our heads as to why the drums are soaked in reverb and bass tone is dulled. Does it mean we can't enjoy the record? Tune in to find out.
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New 90s Episode
Morphine - Cure for Pain
Morphine's unique instrumentation and influences are the true alternative to 90s guitar rock, as evidenced by their 1993 album Cure For Pain
New Releases
Erasure - The Neon
Eighteenth studio album from English synth-pop duo.
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Bright Eyes - Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was
Tenth studio album by the Nebraska band of Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nate Walcott. The release marks the band's first project in nearly a decade, following The People's Key
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Guided by Voices - Mirrored Aztec
Thirty-first album by the Dayton, Ohio indie rock legends.
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Old 97's - Twelfth
Produced by Vance Powell, who also produced Graveyard Whistling, it was recorded in Nashville during the tornadoes right before the pandemic hit
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Coming Soon on Dig Me Out 90s
VOTE: 90s Album Review - August 2020
Let's do this. We've got 8 albums suggested by Dig Me Out listeners and need your help deciding which one would make the best episode.
Gary Miron: 💿 Daniel Johnston - Artistic Vice | ✔️ Vote
Joshua Robles: 💿 Deconstruction - Deconstruction | ✔️ Vote
Richard Waterman: 💿 Replicants - Replicants | ✔️ Vote
Mike Steinmetz: 💿 Black Lab - Your Body Above Me | ✔️ Vote
Lars: 💿 Goodness -Goodness | ✔️ Vote
Doug Auld: 💿 Chamberlain - The Moon, My Saddle | ✔️ Vote
Maria Michelangelo: 💿 Portishead - Dummy | ✔️ Vote
Pedro Pereira: 💿 Nada Surf - High/Low | ✔️ Vote
Suggest a 90s album we should feature on the podcast.
We’re always looking for lost and forgotten albums that deserve another listen. Tell the Dig Me Out listeners what they’ve missed.
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🎙 From the podcast archive
Alain Johannes of Eleven - Artist Interview - Part One
A discussion about the history of Eleven and his 30+ years in the music industry as a singer, guitarist and producer.
Guided by Voices - Do The Collapse
Bob Pollard abandoned his trademark lo-fi sound to release a major label album, produced by the legendary Cars leader Ric Ocasek, Released: 1999 Label: TVT Records Producer: Ric Ocasek
Dayton in the 90s - Digging Your Scene - Roundtable
Dayton, Ohio may be the birthplace of aviation, but it's also the home of Guided By Voices, The Breeders, Brainiac and more
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