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The Origins of Alternative Music - The Stooges
Season 1 Episode 77
In this episode we take a look back to another origin artist of alternative music, The Stooges. Regarded as a seminal proto-punk band, The Stooges we…
7 months, 1 week ago
XTC - Making Plans for Drums and Wires
Season 1 Episode 76
By the end of the 1970’s, XTC had evolved from a quirky punk type of band into an intelligent and elaborate art-rock post-punk band with pop sensibil…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
The Charlatans - Some Friendly Baggy
Season 1 Episode 75
The English band The Charlatans were one of the most successful artists from the "Madchester" and "Baggy" music and cultural scene of late 80s and ea…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
The Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always
Season 1 Episode 74
The Sisters of Mercy rose from the UK post-punk scene after forming in Leeds in 1980. The band’s sound was characterized by gloomy and dark atmospher…
8 months ago
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights to Never for Ever
Season 1 Episode 73
In 1978, Kate Bush hit number one on the UK singles chart with her debut song, “Wuthering Heights”. This was of the start of the unique, creative and…
8 months, 1 week ago
Psychic TV - Thee Music Collective Temple
Season 1 Episode 72
After pioneering industrial music greats Throbbing Gristle broke-up in 1981, founding member Genesis P-Orridge started Psychic TV along with former b…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
The Church - Beyond the Milky Way
Season 1 Episode 71
After The Church formed in Sydney in 1980, the band would begin to develop a distinctive ethereal and psychedelic indie rock sound with atmospheric a…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Jane's Addiction - Building the Alternative Nation
Season 1 Episode 70
Jane's Addiction was one of the most influential bands of the alternative rock movement that helped usher in alternative rock of the 1990’s.
The band …
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Spandau Ballet - Before True Gold
Season 1 Episode 69
Years before the hit songs "True" and "Gold", the English band Spandau Ballet had formed in 1979 inspired by the local post-punk underground dance sc…
9 months ago
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
Season 1 Episode 68
Although the band Young Marble Giants created only one full length studio album, that one album from 1980, Colossal Youth, would be a post-punk tone …
9 months, 1 week ago