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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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Can We Be Mature: The Dismemberment Plan’s Change Turns 20

December 22, 2021December 22, 2021 Ted Miller 0 Comments 2001, Change, Emergency & I, Rilo Kiley, The Dismemberment Plan, Travis Morrison, Travistan

Looking back on the time these DC indie heroes swapped sarcasm for sincerity

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Watching Grunge Leg Drop New Jack Through A Press Table: Pinkerton at 25

September 29, 2021September 30, 2021 Kara Tucker 0 Comments

Reckoning with the complex legacy of the LP everyone thinks is the best Weezer album

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Before Every Second Act, There Must Be A First Act: Nada Surf’s High/Low at 25

July 29, 2021July 29, 2021 Jason Thurston 0 Comments 25th Anniversary, Barsuk Records, High/Low, Matthew Caws, Nada Surf, Ric Ocasek, Semisonic

A look at the band’s more than just “Popular” debut LP

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‘Enough To Hold You To The Brightest Of Lights’: Celebrating 20 Years Of Atmosphere’s ‘Lucy Ford’

February 16, 2021February 16, 2021 Zachary Corsa 0 Comments 2001, 20th Anniversary, Ant, Atmosphere, Husker Du, Lucy Ford, Minneapolis, Prince, Rhymesayers, Slug, The Replacements

Originally intended as a tour-only special release, its national distribution changed everything for the premier Minneapolis hip-hop crewalmost immediately

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Millennium Tension: Jupiter is the OK Computer of Heavy Metal

September 10, 2020September 13, 2020 Nathan Carson 0 Comments 2000, Antenna, Caleb Scofield, Cave In, Explosions in the Sky, Foo Fighters, Green Day, Hydra Head Records, J.R. Conners, Jupiter, Nirvana, RCA Records, Steve Brodsky

Cave In’s breakout album turns 20

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History To The Defeated: Left and Leaving at 20

July 31, 2020July 31, 2020 Lee Zimmerman 2 Comments 2000, 20th Anniversary, Greg Smith, Jason Tait, John K. Samson, Left and Leaving, Propagandhi, Red Fisher, Stephen Carroll, The Weakerthans

On their classic second album, The Weakerthans shored up on their strengths as a prominent band in their own right

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The Racing Pulses: Something To Write Home About

March 30, 2020March 30, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2020, Bon Iver, Fall Out Boy, Kristian Iliev, Panic! At the Disco, Paramore, The Racing Pulses, Violent Femmes

The sharped dressed pop auteurs out of Madison, Wisconsin are one to watch in 2020 as they prep their first new LP in three years

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Le Tigre and the Dismemberment Plan Took Punk Into the Next Millennium

October 28, 2019October 28, 2019 Dan Weiss 0 Comments 1999, 20th Anniversary, DeSoto, Kathleen Hanna, Kill Rock Stars, Le Tigre, The Dismemberment Plan, Travis Morrison, Travistan

How two of indie-rock’s greatest albums broke down every remaining barrier in one day

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