Korn, Seven Mary Three, Black Grape & The Mommyheads
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New Reviews
New Releases
Korn - Requiem
Released through Loma Vista. The album was produced by Chris Collier and preceded by the lead single "Start the Healing"
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Saxon - Carpe Diem
Twenty-third album from the legendary British heavy metal icons.
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Hed PE - Califas Worldwide
Thirteenth studio album from the southern California punk/hip-hop group.
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Seven Mary Three - Beginners (EP)
6 song EP recorded live in the studio in Fall 1995. The music was found on a cassette in an old shoebox in the archive and hadn't been listened to in decades.
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Pam & Tommy (Hulu) - The Greatest Love Story Every Sold
Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's honeymoon sex tape is stolen and leaked to the public, based on the 2014 Rolling Stone article "Pam and Tommy: The Untold Story of the World's Most Infamous Sex Tape"; by Amanda Chicago Lewis.
New 90s Podcast Episodes
Black Grape - It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah
Shaun Ryder picked up the broken pieces of the Happy Mondays for a creative reboot with Black Grape and their 1995 debut album
Making commercially successful funky dance pop music amid Britpop's reign may have only been possible via Shaun Ryder. The then ex-Happy Monday hooked up with producer Danny Saber and a group of new cohorts to produce 1995's debut album by Black Grape, It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah. Mixing the big beats of Big Audio Dynamite with touches of ascendent electronic music like trip-hop, while still dipping a toe in the Madchester scene, there's plenty going as slide guitars and sitars brush up against funk basslines and saxophone solos. It's not entirely successful, but Ryder and Co. manage to push the best material to the limits and create a truly unique sound for the middle of the decade.
Adam Elk of The Mommyheads
How a group of four-track recording enthusiasts scored a major label deal and how they’ve stayed prolific
The Mommyheads are the quintessential artist for Dig Me Out. Formed in the late ‘80s by guys who went to a performing arts high school in New York City (yes, the same one that the movie/TV show Fame was based on) and who enjoyed playing around with lo-fi recording equipment, The Mommyheads had no interest in aping what they were hearing on FM radio or MTV. Instead, they looked up to the underground bands that were also experimenting with 4-track recording, bands like Fish & Roses, They Might Be Giants, and Flaming Lips. In the early ‘90s, they signed with Simple Machines and released a long out-of-print collection of demos and 4-track recordings titled Swiss Army Knife. Dreams of “making it” led to a relocation to San Francisco where, after a string of indie releases on various labels, Geffen Records came calling. Like so many bands covered on the Dig Me Out podcast, the major label deal was not all it was cracked up to be and shortly after The Mommyheads’ self-titled album came out in ‘97, they were dropped and the band broke up. After drummer Jan Kotik passed away from cancer in 2008, the other members got back together and have been active (VERY active) ever since releasing new albums and re-issuing the albums from the ‘90s at a regular pace. A new album is due later in 2022 and there’s no signs of slowing down.
Coming Soon
Join us for our next Roundtable: The Cure In The 90s
Our February roundtable has been selected, and it's The Cure "In The 90s." After ending the 80s on the high note of 1987's Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me and 1989's Disintegration, the band entered the 90s no longer an underground or college rock band, but with a radio and MTV presence like fellow 80s alternative bands R.E.M.
Though they only released two studio albums, that doesn't mean The Cure weren't busy or had a light docket of releases. Greatest Hits, live albums, and remix albums factor into a busy decade for the band.
👋 Would you like to talk The Cure with us?
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