Queensrÿche, The Cult, & Salmonblaster
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Queensrÿche - Digital Noise Alliance
📦 Vinyl & CD | 🎧 Apple Music • Spotify
Queensryche's 16th full-length and fourth with vocalist Todd La Torre, who joined in 2012 in place of Geoff Tate.
Bush - The Art Of Survival
📦 Vinyl & CD | 🎧 Apple Music • Spotify |
A ninth full-length album, re-teaming with Erik Ron (PANIC! AT THE DISCO, GODSMACK) and producer Tyler Bates ("300", "Guardian Of The Galaxy").
The Cult - Under the Midnight Sun
📦 Vinyl & CD | 🎧 Apple Music • Spotify
The LP was inspired by frontman Ian Astbury’s experience at the Provinssirock festival in Finland, held at a location so far north that during the summer, the sun doesn’t set.
Ginger Wildheart & The Sinners - Ginger Wildheart & The Sinners
📦 Vinyl & CD | 🗳 Bandcamp | 🎧 Apple Music • Spotify
The new album and band from The Wildhearts frontman and guitarist described as "from roots country to rock n roll and Americana."
New 90s Podcast
Salmonblaster - Salmonblaster
On their lone self-titled release, Salmonblaster make good on half their name as they dial up the volume and energy, recalling early Nirvana
The line between influence and blatant copying is thin, but bands like Salmonblaster fall more towards the former on their 1996 self-titled and only officially released album. The howling vocals and chugging guitar riffs easily recall Nirvana but in a way that pays respect rather than simply aping the sound, and it's not the only trick the band has up their sleeves. Guitars are big and occasionally chaotic in a shoegaze way that makes the more restrained elements shine brighter, while the band shifts between sounds as easily as their lead vocalist jumps from cathartic screams to melodic harmonies.
Coming Soon
October Album Review Tournament - Group 2 of 3
Which album should we feature in a future episode of Dig Me Out? Here's how it works. We'll post a group of suggested albums from the hopper weekly. Cast your vote to decide on the albums to move forward. The top two winners from each group face off in a final poll at the end of the month.
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Richard Waterman: One Dove-Morning White Dove
Dreamy Electronica Ambient
Willie Dillon: June of 44 -Four Great Points
Album #3 from these Louisville post-rockers.
Kyle Bittner: SPURGE-Tri-Ball Ready
Funky Alt rock from Montana
Gary Miron:O-Matic-Dog Years
Dog Years was the Midwest punk band O-Matic's only album. It is full of swagger, noisy guitars and snarl. Singer Michelle Bodine just oozes attitude and charisma which holds the cacophony together, making for a fun, gasoline soaked good time.
Grady Heid: Dag-Apartment #635
Play that funky music white boy
Eric Peterson: Sheryl Crow-Tuesday Night Music Club
this was one of the hit albums of the early 90s that really seems to have vanished from discussion of big albums of the era.
Martin: Belle and Sebastian-The boy with the Arab strap
Emma Wilson : Daisy Chainsaw-Eleventeen
Perhaps more known for her early 2000's work with Queenadreena, Daisy Chainsaw's debut album features Katie Jane Garside as chaotic, charismatic lead vocalist, whispering childlike or screaming alongside noisy, piercing guitar work. Interesting, abrasive and immediate, this record is a shining example for me of the experimentalism in rock of the early 90s. Pity Katie Jane became a recluse for a few years after it and didn't feature on the follow up in 1994! Would love to hear you guys thrash this one out.
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