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Mission of Burma - Signals from Boston
Season 1 Episode 37
The Boston based post-punk band, Mission of Burma, was together for only four years during their initial run, but they had a lasting impact on music.…
1 year, 4 months ago
Talking Heads 2 - Speaking in Tongues
Season 1 Episode 36
After taking a couple of years off from recording as Talking Heads, the band returned to the studio for the 1983 album, Speaking in Tongues. This fif…
1 year, 4 months ago
Throbbing Gristle - Industrial Music for Industrial People
Season 1 Episode 35
The English music and visual arts group Throbbing Gristle began in 1975 creating music which often contained harsh, mechanical, transgressive, and pr…
1 year, 4 months ago
Visage - New Romantics
Season 1 Episode 34
When they formed in London in 1978, Visage was a collective of musicians that would take an approach to music and style linking to the burgeoning New…
1 year, 4 months ago
Gene Loves Jezebel - Separated Twins
Season 1 Episode 33
Welsh identical twin brothers, Jay and Michael Aston, formed the band Gene Loves Jezebel. From their post-punk and gothic rock debut album in 1983, t…
1 year, 4 months ago
Sonic Youth - Evolving from No Wave
Season 1 Episode 32
Starting in 1981, Sonic Youth pushed boundaries as part of American experimental no wave scene to redefine what noise meant in terms of music. The ba…
1 year, 4 months ago
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ballads and Beyond
Season 1 Episode 31
In 1989, Nick Cave would experience some life changes and with those changes, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds would take their music in a new direction. By…
1 year, 4 months ago
The Cure - Disintegration, The Album
Season 1 Episode 30
When Disintegration was released in May of 1989, the album signified a return to The Cure's darker and gloomier days of their early years.
The eighth…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Cramps - The Perfect Halloween Party Band
Season 1 Episode 29
The Cramps took various music styles including punk rock, rockabilly, surf and garage rock, along with campy humor, sex, and horror/sci-fi film image…
1 year, 5 months ago
Happy Mondays - The Madchester Sound
Season 1 Episode 28
Happy Mondays became one of the pioneering artists of the Madchester scene fusing indie rock, funk, psychedelia and acid house music to create a uniq…
1 year, 5 months ago