PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateSoundField ↓ More info below ↓ The banjo was, at one time, the most popular instrument in America, with tens of thousands manufactured and sold between 1910 and 1930. Nahre talks to Béla Fleck and […]
The self-titled debut album by Glasgow post punk art rock band Franz Ferdinand, released in 2004, turns 20 this year! In this video, I take a look back at the seminal album by the artsy quartet in a documentary style album history. From exploring the cover art to touching on […]
The first 1,000 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/trashtheory12211 By 1997 Britpop was winding down. But Brit Rock had a new wave of bands that preferred heaviness to cribbing from the Beatles. Amongst this lot were Feeder, framed as the plucky […]
Few genres have had the lasting impact of punk. 1976 is one of those seismic dividing lines in popular music. A history destroying year zero. The point after which everything changed. It was the year that The Ramones debut was released, the year that the first singles from the UK […]
Van Halen’s David Lee Roth once said: “Rock critics love Elvis Costello because rock critics look like Elvis Costello.” When he first appeared on Top of the Pops in September 1977, beyond Buddy Holly and Hank Marvin, there had been few rock stars with the nerd aesthetics of Elvis Costello. […]
PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateSoundField ↓ More info below ↓ Canadian DJ collective The Halluci Nation (formerly known as A Tribe Called Red) combine Native American drum circle sounds with electronic music to create Electric Pow wow. Nahre Sol […]
For those that adored the Manic Street Preachers in the early 90s, no other band will ever compare. At first mixing political rhetoric and literary wit with populist glam punk, they kicked back against the impartial shoegaze, baggy and acid House scenes, and, for the first time since the Smiths, […]
Get Surfshark VPN at https://Surfshark.deals/TRASHTHEORY and enter promo code TRASHTHEORY for 83% off and 3 extra months for FREE! The British Indie Disco has a long tradition. Dating back to the days of Orange Juice and New Order, through The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays, it was Guitar Pop that […]
PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateSoundField ↓ More info below ↓ The black church is a musical bootcamp. Beyonce, Aretha Franklin, Anderson .Paak all found their start singing in the church. LA and Nahre travel to Chicago, the birthplace of […]
In the 70s, there was metal – Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple. And then there was punk, Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Damned. Two separate entities that rarely if ever mixed. However a band both subcultures could agree on was Motörhead. Led by the hoarse rumble of Lemmy, with […]
