Roundtable Discussions

Another year and more new music to celebrate as 2024 as we host our fifth annual Music We're Thankful For roundtable with our patrons

Before their 90s hit "Runaway Train," Soul Asylum spent the 80s warping Husker Du hardcore and Replacements punk into their unique sound

Nü Metal rose to prominence in the mid 1990s and brought a cross-pollinated sound to a generation raised equally on hip-hop and metal

While less commercially dominant than the 80s, Bruce Springsteen's commitment to evolving as an artist makes the 90s output worth revisiting

We revisit and discuss the overlooked, under-appreciated, forgotten, and not so forgotten albums of 1994

Another year and more new music to celebrate as 2023 as we host our fourth annual Music We're Thankful For roundtable with our patrons

For episode 666 we gather around the table and discuss controversial albums, videos, artwork, live performances, and more of the 1990s

Artistic highs and personal lows define Depeche Mode in the 90s, who balanced commercial success without sacrificing their mystique

We revisit and discuss the overlooked, under-appreciated, forgotten, and not so forgotten albums of 1993

Another year and more new music to celebrate as 2022 as we host our third annual Music We're Thankful For roundtable with our patrons

We revisit the late 90s Garage Rock Revival by bands like The White Stripes and trace the lineage back to the 60s until the 2000s

Evolving out of their teenage hardcore roots, Dinosaur Jr. forged a noisy path that reinvigorated guitar leads with indie-rock flair

Around for most of the 20th century, the EP format took off in the 1990s with the help of Nine Inch Nails, Ugly Kid Joe, and Alice In Chains

What is Madchester? A sound? A scene? We talk The Stone Roses, Factory Records, Inspiral Carpets, the Hacienda, and more to figure it out

The Cure released possibly their most popular single and their most uneven album as they rocketed into the mainstream in the 1990s

We revisit and discuss the overlooked, under-appreciated, forgotten, and not so forgotten albums of 1992

Another year and more new music to celebrate as 2021 as we host our second annual Music We're Thankful For roundtable with our patrons

We follow up our 2015 episode on bands from the 90s reuniting with more bands, their new material, and who's left from our reunion wish list

What is a Guilty Pleasure? We discuss the various interpretations, whether they still exist, and some of our 90s Guilty Pleasures

Deftones combined hardcore, thrash, metal, and more in the 90s as they became one of the most interesting and ambitious bands of the 2000s

In the 1990s some artists could not contain their output to a single compact disc - we revisit the double albums of the decade

For the 30th anniversary of the first Lollapalooza, we revisit 90s touring festival with the fans who were there

Before they became one of defining alternative bands of the 1990s, Soundgarden started in the 1980s fusing Sabbath riffs and punk chaos

Tape hiss, four-tracks, and more - we explore the world of lo-fi in the 90s and ask if it's just a recording technique or a genre of music

Is the Gin Blossoms' 1996 sophomore album Congratulations, I'm Sorry a worthy follow-up or an actual miserable experience?

In the 90s Neil Young sounded reinvigorated revisiting his past while finding collaborators in the exploding alternative rock scene

We revisit and discuss the overlooked, under-appreciated, forgotten, and not so forgotten albums of 1991

We spent Thanksgiving Eve with our listeners and shared the music we were thankful for during the unrelenting dumpster fire that was 2020

90s Film and television were full of fictitious bands and musical artists - some worthy of revisiting, some best left on dusty VHS cassettes

Our patrons join us to discuss their favorite record labels of the 1990s, including Touch and Go, Estrus, Revelation, Lookout, and many more

Author Grace Elizabeth Hale and Love Tractor guitarist Mark Cline take us on a tour of the 1980s and 90s Athens, Georgia music scene

For our 500th episode of the podcast, we've convened our biggest roundtable ever to discuss Nirvana's legendary 1991 album Nevermind

In the 1990s B-sides were much more than just one song - we revisit the various compilations, maxi-singles, covers, remixes and more

What makes a great tribute album? We sort through over a hundred released in the 1990s to highlight the best collections of curated covers

We revisit the early formative years of Muse, a band that would go on to become a global powerhouse of touring, album sales and singles

We revisit Lilith Fair with a roundtable of performers and concert-goers to discuss the musical and cultural impact of the festival