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New Reviews
Beachy Head - Beachy Head
Slowdive guitarist Christian Savill, along with Ryan Graveface of Dreamend and The Casket Girls, Steve Clarke of The Soft Cavalry, Matt Duckworth of the Flaming Lips, and bandmate Rachel Goswell, form Beachy Head, named after the highest chalk cliff on the southern coast of Britain …
Guided by Voices - Earth Man Blues
Bob Pollard and Guided By Voices are back with their thirty-third release, a loose concept album "focused on the growth of young Harold Admore Harold through a coming of age and a reckoning with darkness." …
New Releases
Weezer - Van Weezer
The arena rock album Weezer shelved because of the pandemic is released.
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The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - When God Was Great
Band’s first album since 2018’s While We’re At It.
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Lisa Gerrard and Jules Maxwell - Burn
Dead Can Dance co-founder Lisa Gerrard's new album with Jules Maxwell, who has toured with the band as a keyboard player.
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Annie Zaleski - Duran Duran's Rio (33 1/3)
Via extensive new interviews with band members and other figures who helped Rio succeed, this book explores how and why Rio became a landmark pop-rock album and examines how the LP was both musical inspiration and a reflection of a musical, cultural, and technology zeitgeist.
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New 90s Podcast
Tribe - Abort
The 1991 major-label debut Abort by Tribe puts its five members to good use exploring every aspect of late 80s alternative and indie rock
Eclectic bands can be a tricky proposition. Too much genre-switching and musical diversity can strip a band of identity, with the disparate parts not adding up too much. But done right, and finding a unified sound in the song-to-song evolution, can make for an exciting listen. Luckily, with Boston's Tribe and their 1991 album Abort, it's the latter. While chronologically they're at the start of the emerging 90s rock scene, their sound harkens back to the 80s in a variety of ways, weaving in new wave, jangle pop, and underground college rock with layered harmonies nods to shoegaze, and dream pop while keeping the arrangments tight. Special guest: David Gorgos - PATRON
Coming Soon
May Roundtable - Vote for an "Origins" Band
Our Board of Directors picked "Origins" for our next roundtable, but with a twist. Instead of revisiting the 90s output of a band that became big in the 2000s (i.e. Muse, Modest Mouse, etc)., they asked to do a band that was big in the 90s, but underground in the 80s. A flip on our "In the 90s" episodes! We're intrigued, so we choose three of their options.
Which bands early output from the 80s would you like us to revisit to see where they started before becoming big bands in the 90s alternative scene?
Poll ends next Friday, May 14th at 12:00 Noon EST.
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