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Portland’s Taylor Malsey presents listeners with some warbled tunes and an inviting, warm blanket of melancholia on the excellent Wilt debut Hand Mirror, out now on Good Cheer Records. And,…
I’m now two weeks late in delivering my opening statements on Do Make Say Think’s Stubborn Persistent Illusions, out since May on Constellation Records and the instrumental giant’s first record…
Toad the Wet Sprocket’s Glen Phillips is on the podcast this week to talk about the 25th anniversary of Fear and his upcoming solo album.
Singer-songwriter John Hampson of Nine Days joins us to talk about the band’s new album, Snapshots, which is being released July 8.
We dip into the interview archives this week for a previously unheard chat from June of last year with ’90s alternative veteran Matthew Sweet
From the first tub thumps of the drums into the guitar sludge on the opening track, you know you’re in for a good ride on this, the long-awaited new album…
Succeeding in the late-night talk show business is no easy feat. Just ask the ten hosts of these famously failed programs.
Most unfortunate pop culture trends from the ’90s are dead and gone, but here are nine that live on like annoying zombies.
Let’s review the top 10 songs from Ben Folds Five, shall we?
A look at the 15 best songs written by Brian May and performed by the legendary hard rock band Queen.
The third Platters That Matter podcast looks at the third album from this great trio. Whoooooa!
In the wake of Scott Weiland’s firing from Stone Temple Pilots, Chris Holmes counts down the top ten songs from STP’s six albums.
With the renewed popularity of female-fronted alternative rock, New Found Glory guitarist Chad Gilbert saw a window of opportunity to bring 90s alt-rocker Lisa Loeb, a noted influence for many…
Want to relive the world of mediocre ’90s alternative rock? No? What if you could do so on a boat?!
Let’s take a look back at the 10 finest moments from XTC’s catalog as written by Colin Moulding.
In part 2 of our look at the career of Bob Mould, we examine his output in the ’90s, from his early solo work to the short-lived greatness of his band Sugar.
You know that one song, but there’s a lot more that you should also know about Dada.
Now that Rush is at long last in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, it’s as good a time as any to look at their best material… from the ’90s to today.
Many moons ago (by which we mean until the mid-90s), there existed mystical Shangri-La’s in shopping malls all across Americas, where quarters flowed, laughter resounded, and countless beefs were settled by joysticks and four buttons. Where …
Food Network changed the way we’re entertained by food and those who cook it.
Video games are signs and symbols of information technology as a whole
To come of age in a time when few young people actually cared about rock was thrilling.
Daria, the show that best captures the tone of American culture in the ’90s.
Genuinely bizarre stuff that belongs in its own, special, thoroughly un-ironic corner of human artistic expression.
There are TV themes you remember. “All In The Family,” with its way-back talk of President Hoover and LaSalle cars. Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams cooing together, “What would we…
They’re too sexy for Milan, New York, and Japan. But is Right Said Fred’s “Up” too sexy for this installment of Beyond the Wonder? Chris Holmes investigates.
Thirty years in, no one would have been surprised if the Rolling Stones simply ground to a halt in the 1990s. Instead, they managed a small, very late career resurgence.
Britpop lovers will be intrigued to hear about the 20th-anniversary reissue of the seminal Ride album Nowhere. Annie Zaleski dips into the contents of the set.