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J and Tim dig into the grunge, alt-rock, and indie albums that changed everything—the forgotten classics, the underappreciated masterpieces, and the legends worth hearing again. One album at a time. Let’s dig it out.
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It's been many years and many albums since our introduction to Denmark's Kashmir, and while the line-up stayed the same, the sound has evolved. This time we check out the 2005 album No Balance Palace, with a studio legend (Tony Visconti) behind the board, and two more legends (David Bowie and Lou Reed) making appearances. Kashmir didn't work for us the first time around, will maturity and a trio of big names help us connect with the band?
Songs In This Episode
Intro - Jewel Drop
9:14 - Kalifornia
11:26 - The Cynic
14:14 - The Curse Of Being A Girl
26:09 - She's Made Of Chalk
21:33 - Snowman
28:21 - Black Building
Outro - No Balance Palace
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Tuesday May 12, 2026
Tuesday May 12, 2026
Refused famously titled their landmark 1998 post-hardcore album The Shape of Punk to Come, a nod to the trailblazing Ornette Coleman avant garde/free jazz album The Shape of Jazz to Come released in 1959. The short-lived band Swedish band Purusam released their second and final album Daybreak Chronicles in 1997 on the Refused-connected Desperate Fight Records, though it could have been titled The Shape of Metal to Come. More than just a post-hardcore outfit, the band dabbled in Iron Maiden-style twin guitar attacks and galloping rhythms before shifting into progressive-ish mode with cello drenched interludes while balancing screaming male vocals and ethereal female vocals.
Songs In This Episode
Intro - Opening Theme/The Way of the Hero
15:47 - Leave and Forget
22:38 - Atma
35:23 - Starlit
Outro - Hourglass
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Tuesday Apr 28, 2026
Tuesday Apr 28, 2026
Good Health, the 2002 debut album by Pretty Girls Make Graves, packs punches in all the right places and in under thirty minutes. Angular guitars bounce off of a confident, inventive rhythm section in service of indie rock earworms and an anthemic opener.
Songs In This Episode
Intro - Ghost In The Radio
13:05 - Speakers Push Air
25:08 - The Get Away
31:12 - If You Hate Your Friends, You're Not Alone
Outro - More Sweet Soul
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Tuesday Apr 14, 2026
Tuesday Apr 14, 2026
Never heard of Reacharound? You're not alone, which is a shame, because this band of UK expats playing punked-up rockabilly and 60s Kinks and Who influenced garage rock deserved your attention. Their only album, 1996's Who's Tommy Cooper? is a charming, straight-up rock album with enough variety to keep fans of Reverend Horton Heat, Social Distortion, or The Living End interested.
Songs In This Episode
Intro - Big & Mean
22:22 - Big Chair
26:37 - Seen It Before
33:36 - Gene Autry
Outro - Shaking Like A Leaf
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Tuesday Mar 31, 2026
Tuesday Mar 31, 2026
2006 wasn't just any year in the 00s. It's the year Twitter launched, the year before the release of the iPhone, Nintendo debuted the Wii console, Borat burst into movie theaters, and Justin Timberlake made sure sexy was back. It was also when danceable post-punk, alternative metal, and UK post-Brit pop were making waves bubbling up to the underground, and much more. We've invited a group of our Patrons to revisit the year and discuss albums that stood the test of time (and a few that did not), overlooked and underappreciated albums, albums we were late to discover, and much more.
Songs In This Episode
Intro - Supermassive Black Hole by Muse, Young Folks by Peter, Bjorn and John, Crazy by Gnarls Barkley
22:00 - Unleashed by Front Line Assembly
31:53 - Family Band by The Tragically Hip
43:58 - Rockstar by The Fags
56:46 - Master Exploder by Tenacious D
1:00:39 - Tear You Apart by She Wants Revenge
1:17:39 - Star Witness by Neko Case
1:22:34 - Come Clarity by In Flames
1:32:26 - Standing In The Way Of Control - Gossip
Outro - Different World by Iron Maiden
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Tuesday Mar 24, 2026
Tuesday Mar 24, 2026
Released during the protracted second Iraq war, Josh Ritter's fourth album The Animal Years layers a singer/songwriter album with somber lyrical depth softened by effective melodies and thoughtful instrumentation.
Songs In This Episode
Intro - Wolves
17:04 - Girl In The War
18:58 - Monster Ballads
25:29 - Thin Blue Flame
32:36 - Good Man
Outro - Here at the Right Time
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Tuesday Mar 10, 2026
Tuesday Mar 10, 2026
Earnest without sliding into overwrought emo, Silkworm struck a balance between raw and refined on their fourth album, 1996's Firewater. Like most of their releases, the band turned to Steve Albini to engineer, capturing the live sound of the band crisp and clearly across the nearly hour running time. The band rarely overindulge, leaving those spare moments to the guitarist Andy Cohen, who channels the overdriven chaos of J. Mascis and Neil Young on tracks like "Wet Firecracker" and "Drag the River." The rhythm section, though never flashy, are tight and locked-in, with the bass taking melodic turns to support the sing-speak vocals that waver between understated and explosive. Though the band called Seattle home for the early part of the 1990s, the band eschews any grunge influence for post-punk and indie rock influences that helped separate the band from their homebase peers.
Songs In This Episode
Intro - Nerves
19:28 - Quicksand
21:28 - Drag the River
29:06 - Cannibal Cannibal
31:07 - The Lure of Beauty
Outro - Don't Make Plans This Friday
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Tuesday Feb 24, 2026
Tuesday Feb 24, 2026
Self-produced after parting ways with their major label, 12 Rods released the genre-bending Lost Time in 2002, combining elements of power pop, indie rock, 70s art rock and more. Eclectic songwriting, dynamic shifts, and a mixture of organic and treated sounds balance an album full of catchy hooks with inventive and occasionally straight-up weird choices, like the loungy-groove of "Fake Magic 8-Ball," falling somewhere between Eels and Ben Folds Five, or the relentlessly melodic "Twenty Four Hours Ago." The lack of cohesion is offset by the versatility of the material, never overstaying its welcome, and quality of the songwriting that welcomes repeated listens.
Songs In This Episode
Intro - Terrible Hands
17:12 - Fake Magic 8-Ball
21:19 - Summertime Vertigo
26:05 - Boy in the Woods
30:16 - Twenty Four Hours Ago
41:31 - The Time Is Right (To Be Wrong)
Outro - Accidents Waiting to Happen
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Tuesday Feb 10, 2026
Tuesday Feb 10, 2026
Is an industrial song ever really done? KMFDM’s 1993 release Naïve/Hell to Go asks that question, revisiting tracks from their 1990 release Naïve and offering new remixes and modified versions. Leaning heavily on sequenced aggression - pounding drum machines, serrated metal guitar loops, and chant-ready slogans that feel engineered as much for the dance floor as the mosh pit. Tracks like “Go to Hell” and “A Drug Against War” distill the band’s confrontational ethos into blunt, almost cartoonishly militant hooks that nonetheless hit with real force.
Songs In This Episode
Intro - Welcome/Naïve
19:10 - Got To Hell (Fuck MTV Mix)
24:57 - Godlike (Doglike Mix)
27:47 - Die Now Live Later (Born Again Mix)
Outro - Disgust (Live in Seattle)
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Tuesday Jan 27, 2026
Tuesday Jan 27, 2026
You Forgot It in People captures Broken Social Scene at their most expansive, an indie rock communal experience balancing meticulous arrangements and unhinged joyfulness. Layers of guitars, synths, horns, and rotating vocalists creates a warm chaos that rewards repeated listens, as new details constantly surface. Songs like “Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl” and “Cause = Time” balance intimacy and grandeur, pairing fragile emotion with sweeping crescendos. Two decades on, it still sounds like the 2000s blueprint for how indie rock bands like Arcade Fire, Godspeed, You Black Emperor, and many more could be messy, emotional, and deeply human without losing their ambition.
Songs In This Episode
Intro - Stars and Sons
12:15 - KC Accidental
20:29 - Cause = Time
26:03 - Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl
Outro - Pacific Theme
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