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Looking California, Feeling Minnesota: Celebrating 30 Years of Badmotorfinger

September 24, 2021September 24, 2021 Rachel Linhart 4 Comments

Why the third Soundgarden album is still their best

Alternative Rock Hard Rock Indie Rock Noise Pop Post-Hardcore Post-Punk Power Pop Punk Rock

Oh Well, Whatever: ‘Nevermind’ at 30

September 23, 2021September 29, 2021 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments 1991, Breed, Dave Grohl, DGC, Garth Brooks, Geffen, In Bloom, Krist Noveselic, Kurt Cobain, Mariah Carey, MC Hammer, Nevermind, Nirvana, On a Plain, Polly, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Territorial Pissings

The breakout success of the second Nirvana album was both a gift and a curse for Kurt Cobain

Alternative Rock Country and/or Western Electronic Indie Rock Rock

Playing Kiss Covers Beautiful and Stoned: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot at 20

September 18, 2021September 28, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2001, Glenn Kotche, I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, Jay Bennett, Jeff Tweedy, Jim O'Rourke, John Stirratt, Nonesuch Records, Reprise Records, Stop Smiling, Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

I’ve got reservations about so many things, but not about my appreciation for Wilco’s complicated 2001 milestone

Alternative Rock Pop Power Pop

Fountains of Wayne Run Dry

September 7, 2021September 21, 2021 Robert Baird 0 Comments 10th anniversary, 2011, Adam Schlesinger, Brian Young, Chris Collingwood, Fountains of Wayne, Jody Porter, Sky Full Of Holes, Welcome Interstate Managers

A vinyl reissue celebrates the 10th Anniversary of the pop greats’ last studio album Sky Full Of Holes

Alternative Rock Irish Rock

Kirsty MacColl: They (Still) Don’t Know

September 1, 2021September 1, 2021 Steve Holtje 0 Comments 1991, 30th Anniversary, Desperate Character, Electric Landlady, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Marr, Kirsty MacColl, Steve Lillywhite, They Don't Know

It’s been 30 years since she released one of the best albums of 1991 with Electric Landlady; her flowers are long overdue

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Pearl Jam and Me: The First Six Years

August 29, 2021August 29, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1991, 1996, 25th Anniversary, 30th Anniversary, Alive, Dave Abbruzzese, Dave Kruzen, Eddie Vedder, Evenflow, Jack Irons, Jeff Ament, Mike McCready, No Code, Pearl Jam, Porch, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stone Gossard, Ten

Celebrating two key album-versaries from America’s most important rock band

Alternative Rock

Teenage Kicks at the First Lollapalooza

August 15, 2021August 15, 2021 Ron Hart 2 Comments 1991, Body Count, Butthole Surfers, Henry Rollins, Ice-T, Jane's Addiction, Living Colour, Lollapalooza, Nine Inch Nails, Rollins Band, Siouxsie and the Banshees

30 years ago, me and a bunch of my friends stood at the precipice of Perry Farrell’s “Alternative Nation” and lived to tell the tale

Alternative Rock Rock

Lunch With Sal Maida and Steve Wynn

July 27, 2021July 27, 2021 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments COVID-19, Ed Rogers, Linda Pitmon, Roxy Music, Sal Maida, Sparks, Steve Wynn, The Dream Syndicate

Over burgers and eggs benedict, the longtime friends and contemporaries let Rock & Roll Globe listen in as they catch up on how they kept busy during the past eighteen months – and what’s next for each of them

Alternative Rock Dance Electronic Pop

Walking In His Shoes: Martin Gore at 60

July 23, 2021July 23, 2021 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 1981, 1988, 60th birthday, Andy Fletcher, Dave Gahan, Depeche Mode, Martin Gore, New Order, The Cure, Vince Clarke

The Depeche Mode guitar great defies age by always moving forward

Alternative Rock

Make No Mistake (Fatal or Otherwise), Del Amitri Are Back

July 19, 2021July 19, 2021 Jason Perri 2 Comments 2021, Cooking Vinyl, Del Amitri, Fatal Mistakes, Justin Currie

Talking Nostalgia, Brexit and Bob Dylan with frontman Justin Currie as the U.K. alt-pop vets release their first new album in 19 years

Alternative Rock Hard Rock

Keep Your Hand On The Gospel Plow: 25 Years of Dust

July 2, 2021July 15, 2021 Jason Perri 0 Comments 1996, 25th Anniversary, All I Know, Barrett Martin, Dust, Epic Records, Gary Lee Conner, MARK LANEGAN, Pearl Jam, Screaming Trees, Soundgarden, Van Conner

The final Screaming Trees studio LP was the culmination of what the band had been yearning for since their humble beginnings

Alternative Rock Dream Pop Pop

Hope Sandoval Springs Eternal

June 24, 2021August 4, 2021 Jim Sullivan 12 Comments 55th Birthday, Bavarian Fruit Bread, Dave Roback, David Roback, Dream Pop, Fade Into You, Hope Sandoval, Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions, Mazzy Star, My Bloody Valentine, Opal

Celebrating the career of a key voice in the evolution of dream pop on her 55th birthday

Alternative Rock Britpop

Nineteen Forever: Ash’s 1977 at 25

June 9, 2021August 4, 2021 Jason Thurston 0 Comments 1977, 25th Anniversary, Ash, Blur, Britpop, Northern Ireland, Oasis, Star Wars, Supergrass, Tom Wheeler

Looking back at the auspicious debut from the (former) teen babes of Northern Ireland

Alternative Rock Hard Rock Heavy Metal Progressive Rock

‘Disintegrating As It Goes, Testing Our Communication’: 20 Years Of TOOL’s ‘Lateralus’

June 7, 2021 Zachary Corsa 0 Comments 2001, 20th Anniversary, AEnima, Lateralus, Maynard James Keenan, Schism, Tool

Was this the band’s last great album or the beginning of their slow slide into the mundane?

Alternative Rock New Wave Power Pop

Crab At The Booty: Weezer (Green Album) Turns 20

May 14, 2021May 14, 2021 Ted Miller 0 Comments 2001, 20th Anniversary, Brian Bell, Hash Pipe, Island In The Sun, Mikey Welsh, Pat Wilson, Rivers Cuomo, Weezer

The time has come for the band’s third LP to be deemed a masterpiece

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