Archive - Dig Me Out

First Wave Hello: The 2006 Space Rock Record That Should Have Been in Your Collection

Heavy guitars, restless keyboards, and a familiar sound with an unfamiliar name.

Oct 27 • J Dziak and Tim Minneci

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Vote: Who Kept the Hard Rock Flame Burning in the ’90s?

Killer Dwarfs, Kik Tracee, Arcade, and Buckcherry: four records built on riffs, hooks, and the belief that this stuff still mattered. Members decide…

Oct 25 • J Dziak

Manowar’s Kings of Metal Still Demands You Pick a Side

Before the genre found its rules, this 1988 album went enormous in every direction.

Oct 20 • J Dziak, Tim Minneci, and Gavin Reid

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Bon's Last Album vs. Three Heavy 70s Obscurities

70s ballot is LIVE. Bon's last album vs. Alkana vs. Randy Holden vs. Euclid. Who's getting your vote, and who's getting robbed?

Oct 17 • J Dziak

Lost Highway: The Soundtrack That Could Only Exist in 1997

A collision of industrial, alternative rock, bossa nova, and cinematic dread.

Oct 13 • J Dziak, Tim Minneci, and Ian McIvor

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The 1977 Album That Should Have Made Starz Famous

Jack Douglas produced it. Bill Aucoin managed them. Capitol released it. Rock radio still passed.

Oct 6 • J Dziak, Tim Minneci, and Chip Midnight

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September 2026

12 Rods’ Split Personalities: Too Weird for Radio, Too Melodic to Ignore

A lost 90s record where synth pop, prog, and indie rock collide. Pitchfork Loved It—The Rest of 1998 Missed It.

Sep 29 • J Dziak and Tim Minneci

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A Dead Heat Between Two Albums That Have No Business Being on the Same Ballot

A hair metal pivot record and a Lynch fever dream tied at 40%. One gets the deep dive only Dig Me Out can deliver.

Sep 28 • J Dziak

Beck closes the heartache trilogy, Anthrax end a decade of silence, Soft Cell say goodbye to Dave Ball, and Neil Young digs up songs he…

Plus the lost Tinfed record on a Disney-backed label, 12 Rods on deck for Tuesday, and a Kentucky funk-metal band Chip saw at Stache’s in 1993.

Sep 27 • J Dziak and Tim Minneci

Ed Buller Mixed It. Hollywood Records Released It. Then Tinfed Vanished.

A Sacramento band fused alt-rock muscle with electronic shadows.

Sep 22 • J Dziak and Tim Minneci

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From Chicago Folk-Pop to Canadian Industrial Metal: The September 90s Ballot Is Wild

Poi Dog Pondering, Bulletboys, the Lost Highway soundtrack, and Monster Voodoo Machine walk into a poll.

Sep 19 • J Dziak

Holland’s Little Monsters: The Chicago Metal Album That Got Lost Between Scenes

Little Monsters hid power-pop instincts beneath its hard-rock armor.

Sep 15 • J Dziak, Tim Minneci, and Chip Midnight

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