The 1993 debut album Copacetic by Velocity Girl has the shoegaze and noise rock pieces for something special but never quite gels together

Before becoming one of the hot remix artists of the 2000s, Soulwax combined crunchy guitars and pop melodies on their 1998 sophomore album

What is Madchester? A sound? A scene? We talk The Stone Roses, Factory Records, Inspiral Carpets, the Hacienda, and more to figure it out

Shaun Ryder picked up the broken pieces of the Happy Mondays for a creative reboot with Black Grape and their 1995 debut album

Always out of step with the 90s alternative rock explosion, The Black Crowes released their most confident album with 1994's Amorica

Dual bassists helped Ned's Atomic Dustbin standout in the crowded alternative scene, we revisit their 1992 sophomore album Are You Normal?

On their 1992 debut album Doppelgänger, Curve manage to sound simultaneously ahead of their time and firmly planted in the 1990s

Ringo Sheena combines melodic pop vocals with a wide array of styles covered in layers of fuzz and distortion on her 2000 album Shōso Strip

Bon Jovi choruses slam against jazzy verses in Gods Child's 1996 sophomore album Aluminum

Travis combine the brit-pop guitar bombast with the melodies and hooks of the Kinks, topped off with stellar Steve Lillywhite production

The Wendys were a part of the early 90s Madchester scene, but do The Wendys stack up to those legendary bands?

We kick off season two with disagreement over the lone album by Fossil, their 1995 self-titled release.