Podcast Episodes

1986: The Year Glam and Thrash Both Peaked at the Same Time

On daytime MTV, Bon Jovi was becoming the biggest pop-rock act on the planet. Poison was setting the blueprint for everything pop culture now calls h…

5 hours ago

Black Roses Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1988): The King Kobra Album Hidden Inside a B-Movie

In 1988, a straight-to-VHS satanic panic horror film called Black Roses went nowhere fast. The movie itself is, by any honest assessment, terrible: b…

2 weeks ago

Gang of Four’s Entertainment!: Punk, Funk, and the Politics of Rhythm

Gang of Four’s Entertainment! is the moment post‑punk stopped being a scene and started sounding like a threat. This 1979 debut didn’t just tweak pun…

4 weeks ago

The Hummingbirds Gave the Lemonheads Their Biggest Hit

Returning Dig Me Out Union patron Josh Page is back from Australia with his second pick, and this one is geo-locked to his home country for most of t…

1 month, 1 week ago

Stevie Wright's Hard Road Is the AC/DC Prequel Nobody Told You About

The name Stevie Wright probably doesn't ring a bell. It should. Wright was the lead singer of The Easybeats, Australia's first international rock act…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Metal Church's The Dark: The Album That Got Buried By 1986

You Opened for Metallica. You Got MTV Airplay. So Why Does Nobody Know Your Name?

The strange disappearance of Metal Church and The Dark

The Dark earne…

2 months, 1 week ago

Skyhooks’ Living in the 70s: The Most Important Australian Rock Album You’ve Never Heard

Skyhooks – Living in the 70s (1974) | 70s Rock Deep Dive

What if the most important rock album of 1974 never made it out of its home country? In Austr…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

The Secret Handshake: Why Dangerous Toys Never Became a Household Name

Dangerous Toys (self-titled, 1989) was brought to the show by Dig Me Out community member Keith Miller, who nominated it for the December 2025 Patreo…

3 months, 1 week ago

The 1973 Album by The Sensational Alex Harvey Band That Sounds Like Rocky Horror Meets AC/DC

A Scottish cult hero. A seven-minute pseudo-electronic epic. A song literally called “Gang Bang.” This episode dives into Next (1973) by the Sensatio…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Before You Replay Master of Puppets, Hear This

When an Australian thrash band that never broke big in the U.S. gets compared to early Metallica, Slayer, and Maiden in the same breath, you know you…

4 months, 1 week ago