Archive - Dig Me Out

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

Gold album, Headbangers Ball staple, Austin DNA — so what happened exactly?

Mar 17 • J Dziak, Tim Minneci, and Chip Midnight

59:40

Skyhooks Got Banned. Hurriganes Took Over Finland. One Got Signed by Zeppelin. All Four are Lost.

Your vote decides which heavy 70s cult classic gets dug out next.

Mar 14 • J Dziak

If You Love Pavement but Wish They Hit Harder, Meet Silkworm

Firewater is an hour of bass-driven, Albini-engineered rock that still burns going down.

Mar 10 • J Dziak and Tim Minneci

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

Why Next still feels unhinged, theatrical, and way ahead of its time in the glam and hard rock canon.

Mar 3 • J Dziak, Tim Minneci, and Chip Midnight

56:07

February 2026

Rob Zombie’s heaviest album in years, Voxtrot’s reunion, Bill Callahan’s late‑career confessions, U2’s political EP, and more new rock worth…

From “The Great Satan” to “Days of Ash”: 12 New Rock Releases About Aging, Survival, and Refusing to Shut Up

Feb 28 • J Dziak and Tim Minneci

Too Weird for Radio, Too Melodic to Ignore: 12 Rods’ Lost Time

Jazz-school drums, Brian Wilson melodies, Jellyfish prog, Minus the Bear math—inside the ambitious early‑2000s album that never found a home but found…

Feb 24 • J Dziak and Tim Minneci

1:11:17

Before You Replay Master of Puppets, Hear This

The forgotten 1986 Mortal Sin album that sounds like Australia’s answer to Metallica, Slayer, and Maiden.

Feb 17 • J Dziak, Tim Minneci, Chip Midnight, and Gavin Reid

1:07:00

What If You Didn’t Let the Algorithm Pick Your Next Album?

From Converge and Puscifer to Beck and Big Big Train, these records wrestle with collapse and renewal—then we rewind to Agitation Free and KMFDM to hear…

Feb 14 • J Dziak and Tim Minneci

Press Play on Mayhemic Destruction, Then Tell Us: Worthy Album, Better EP, or Just One Killer Single?

Queue up Mortal Sin’s first full-length, vote on where it lands in the Dig Me Out canon, and leave a comment we can bring into the episode.

Feb 11 • J Dziak and Tim Minneci

KMFDM’s Naïve/Hell to Go: The Twice-Born Industrial Classic

Inside the banned samples, Wax Trax! drama, and Slayer riffs that turned this 1990s cult favorite into a ghost in the streaming era.

Feb 10 • J Dziak, Tim Minneci, and Ian McIvor

1:08:55

12 Rods Got Todd Rundgren—So Why Didn’t Anyone Listen?

A Dig Me Out listener from Oxford knows the story—now it’s your turn to decide if Lost Time deserves rescue

Feb 6 • J Dziak

Agitation Free: The Album Nobody Remembers (But Tangerine Dream Does)

How a Berlin band turned Egyptian street recordings into one of 1972’s strangest masterpieces

Feb 3 • J Dziak, Tim Minneci, and Chip Midnight

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