Chris Whitley's 1995 sophomore album Din of Ecstasy is the sound of thrashing through musical boundaries and writing from the soul

Joe Pernice talks 90s alt country with the Scud Mountain Boys, reissuing the Pernice Brothers 1998 debut Overcome by Happiness, and more

On their fourth record Fight Songs, the Old 97s refined their alternative country rock sound with a cleaner, genre-hopping sound

The 1997 debut Exile on Coldharbour Lane by Alabama 3 somehow combines trip-hop, acid house, country, blues, and gospel and make it all work

Cowboy Mouth combines radio-friendly rock with Southern flavor to mixed results on their 1996 album Are You With Me?

Tape hiss, four-tracks, and more - we explore the world of lo-fi in the 90s and ask if it's just a recording technique or a genre of music

In the 90s Neil Young sounded reinvigorated revisiting his past while finding collaborators in the exploding alternative rock scene

The Walkabouts 1993 album Satisfied Mind collects a wide variety of artists for folk, country, and Americana covers for a timeless album

The 1999 album Bareback by Hank Dogs is a traditional English folk album, simultaneously behind and ahead of the times

American Music Club fully explore the studio and the darkness, finding latenight allure in both on their timeless 1991 album Everclear

We dive into the 90s phenomenon known as Pop Punk and discuss the distinct sounds, the bands, the albums, and legacy of this Punk offshoot

On the 1998 album Since, Richard Buckner crafts an album that manages to sound grounded in tradition but timeless in execution

In the 90s, the Power Pop resurgence etched some mainstream success while firmly holding onto its underdog origins

What is Desert Rock? A scene? A sound? We chat with the Desert Age filmmaker to understand what made it so unique.

The band expands upon Vaughan’s blues template and mildly dips its toes in more pop and radio friendly territory.

As with all tributes, artists stay close to the original version while others radically reinterpret, and that’s the case with Twisted Willie

We look back at the origins of Electronica, revisit four pivotal albums from 1997, and how this all evolved into the ‘00s.

Scotty Morris of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy talks Swingers, the 1999 Super Bowl and the arc of swing music in the 90s.

After scoring a hit “Fly Me Courageous," Drivin' N Cryin' returned with an ode to the classic rock riffage of AC/DC, Aerosmith & Hendrix.

We're talking the evolution of Metal in the 1990s, from Metallica to Helmet, Ozzy to Tool, and Kyuss to Pantera

What is Emo? We try to figure that out by diving into the history, the bands, the unique sounds and more

Twenty years since being released, we revisit the 1995 debut of Jay Farrar's post-Uncle Tupelo band Son Volt

We explore shoegaze - the bands, sounds, albums, guitar pedals and much more that made up this loosely defined sound and group of artists

Who's punk, what's the score? That's what we try to figure out on our roundtable talking punk rock in the 1990s

What was and is Britpop? We're not sure, so we're hosting a roundtable to try figure out the sounds, bands, legacy and more

Steeped in the alt-country that rose to prominence with bands like Uncle Tupelo and The Jayhawks, we check out Faithless by Whiskeytown

Pearl Jam, Lou Reed, Shudder to Think and more stand out as we go track-by-track through the album.

Written and recorded after the departure of co-founding lead singer and songwriter Mark Olsen, it rests on the shoulders of Gary Louris.

The varied styles of Uncle Tupelo's co-lead singers/songwriters Jeff Tweedy and Jay Farrar helped define Alt-Country and create a classic