Author: Ian King

Alternative Rock Rock 

How Dark Matter Ranks in the Pearl Jam Catalog

April 24, 2024April 24, 2024 Ian King 0 Comments 2024, Andrew Watt, Dark Matter, Eddie Vedder, Jeff Ament, Matt Cameron, Mike McCready, Monkeywrench Records, MUDHONEY, Pearl Jam, Republic Records, Steve Turner, Stone Gossard

Inside the band’s new album and what it says about them in 2024

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Future Boys: Catherine Wheel’s Adam and Eve at 25

July 30, 2022July 30, 2022 Ian King 0 Comments 1997, 25th Anniversary, Adam & Eve, Brian Futter, Catherine Wheel, Chrome, Dave Hawes, England, Ferment, Happy Days, Rob Dickinson, Shoegaze

Looking back on the English band’s classic penultimate album

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Emotional Punk Rock aka Emo Hardcore Heavy Metal Post-Hardcore 

Cosmopolitan Blood Loss: Glassjaw’s Worship & Tribute At 20

July 20, 2022July 20, 2022 Ian King 0 Comments 2002, 20th Anniversary, Daryl Palumbo, Emo, Glassjaw, Justin Beck, Long Island, Ross Robinson, Todd Weinstock, Warner Bros., Worship & Tribute

Looking back at the Long Island post-hardcore mavens’ complicated sophomore classic

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Alternative Rock Emotional Punk Rock aka Emo Post-Hardcore 

How Near How Far: 20 Years of Source Tags & Codes

March 5, 2022March 5, 2022 Ian King 0 Comments ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, 2002, 20th Anniversary, Interscope Records, Madonna, post-hardcore, Source Tags & Codes

The third LP from …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead bottled the band’s unstable but undeniable chemistry as they clawed upwards to their early 2000s peak

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Indie Rock 

Inside This Leather Terrarium: Brighten The Corners at 25

February 11, 2022February 11, 2022 Ian King 0 Comments 1997, Bob Nastanovich, Brighten The Corners, Fin, Geddy Lee, Magnet Magazine, Mark Ibold, Matador Records, MTV, Pavement, Shady Lane, Spiral Stairs, Starlings on the Slipstream, Stephen Malkmus, Stereo, Steve West, Transport Is Arranged

Looking back on the album that helped Pavement become a band again

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Britpop 

The Uncanny Auteurs

April 20, 2021April 20, 2021 Ian King 0 Comments 1996, 25th Anniversary, After Murder Park, album, Blur, Britpop, CMJ, Damon Albarn, Luke Haines, Melody Maker, The Auteurs

Looking back on 25 years of an underrated Britpop classic

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Alternative Rock Soul 

Night By Candlelight: Black Love At 25

March 31, 2021October 5, 2023 Ian King 0 Comments 1965, 1996, 25th Anniversary, AFGHAN WHIGS, Black Love, Gentlemen, Greg Dulli, John Curley, Paul Buchignani, Rick McCollum

Looking back at the balance of beauty and evil that imbues the Afghan Whigs’ greatest album

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Indie Rock Punk 

“They Want To Simplify Your Needs And Likes To Sterilize You”: A Quarter Century Of Call The Doctor

March 23, 2021March 24, 2021 Ian King 0 Comments 1996, Call the Doctor, Carrie Brownstein, Chainsaw Records, Corin Tucker, Donna Dresch, Kill Rock Stars, SLEATER-KINNEY

Looking back at 25 years of the second Sleater-Kinney LP

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Britpop 

Yer Twisting My Melon, Man! Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches at 30

November 30, 2020November 30, 2020 Ian King 1 Comment 1990, Black Grape, Bummed, Elektra, God's Cop, Happy Mondays, Kinky Afro, Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches, Shaun Ryder, Step On

On their essential third album, the Happy Mondays set the scene for Madchester’s never-ending rave going into the 90s

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Alternative Rock 

This Here Giraffe: The Flaming Lips’ Clouds Taste Metallic at 25

September 30, 2020December 19, 2025 Ian King 1 Comment 1995, Bee Thousand, Clouds Taste Metallic, Electr-O-Pura, Guided By Voices, The Flaming Lips, The Soft Bulletin, Yo La Tengo

A quarter century later, does the band’s 1995 classic still stand as the “Pet Sounds for the 90s”?

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Britpop 

I’m Hoping I Don’t Freeze Here: The Hour of Bewilderbeast at 20

July 11, 2020July 11, 2020 Ian King 0 Comments 2000, 20th Anniversary, Badly Drawn Boy, Beck, Damon Gough, Doves, Elliott Smith, The Hour of Bewilderbeast, Travis

How the first Badly Drawn Boy album set the scene for 21st Century Post Britpop

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Indie Rock 

Mighty Mouse: The Moon & Antarctica at 20

June 15, 2020June 15, 2020 Ian King 0 Comments 2000, Built To Spill, Epic Records, Eric Judy, Isaac Brock, Jeremiah Green, Modest Mouse, Pavement, Seattle, The Moon & Antarctica, Up Records

Why the third Modest Mouse LP remains the band’s quintessential creative statement

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Indie Rock Pop 

Death Cab For Cutie: “Indie Rock Is Dead”

March 27, 2020March 27, 2020 Ian King 0 Comments 2000, 764-Hero, Barsuk Records, Ben Gibbard, Chris Walla, Death Cab for Cutie, Modest Mouse, Sean Nelson

The band’s classic We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes at 20

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