Someday you will ache like I ache. Welcome (or welcome back) to Vinyl Monday! This is my weekly series where I give the who/what/when/where/why and how I feel about classic albums in my collection. My thoughts on Hole’s Live Through This, released 30 years ago this week. Subscribe for more […]
1993 was quite the year for Alternative Rock. Still in the afterglow of Nevermind changing everything, weird and wonderful music that only a couple of years prior would’ve gone unheard, then a product of the underground, now controlling the airwaves and taking over MTV. [“Start Choppin’,” “Today,” “Creep,” “No Rain,” […]
The early 90s was a boom time for getting rich off Alternative Rock. Due to the breakout commercial success of REM, Nirvana and Green Day, major labels grabbed any band that could approximate their sounds in the hopes of them becoming the next big thing. If there was one band […]
Follow us on Twitter, Instagram & Tik Tok: @moremiddle8 We all know Nirvana, right? They brought alternative rock to the mainstream with their groundbreaking album “Nevermind” and the iconic single “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” But what if I told you that Nirvana actually stole their sound from another band? In […]
Sonic Youth are a band perhaps known more for their influence than their music. Formed in New York in 1981, they made their name on swirling avalanches of noise and guitars with odd tuning, breathing in a mix of no wave, hardcore, 60s pop, pulp sci-fi and b-movies. Their love […]
If you came of age in the late 1980s or early 1990s, the speed at which Nirvana rose to cultural relevance was breathtaking. They literally saved rock and roll. This episode of Poetic Wax looks back at the band and their 1991 release Nevermind, from the wall scribble misunderstanding that […]
