Smells Like Alternative

It’s funny that when you’re not feeling down you want to listen to some mood music. And, for me at least, Chris Cornell is a one of the masters at self-loathing music. So naturally I’ve been listening to a lot of his stuff lately.
However, I’m not feeling as bad now, so the music’s been getting a bit more upbeat. And, one song comes to mind, which would be Audioslave’s “Be Yourself”. Yes, I know that Audioslave isn’t a pure 90’s band, but we’ll let em’ slide since the band is made up of Cornell and Rage Against The Machine. I …read more

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Green River, which was the Seattle band that featured future Pearl Jam members Stone Gossard and Jess Ament and Mudhoney members Mark Arm, Steve Turner and Alex Vincent, are prepping for their first show in around 21 years.
The band will reunite for Sub Pop’s 20th Anniversary gig in Seattle this Sunday, July 13, and it looks like they’re going to play some rarities. Jeff Ament told Billboard that that band has relearned two unreleased demos, “Baby, Help Me Forget” and “Leech”, which Ament called “some of the best songs” that the band has.
The band had already rehearsed twice in April, …read more

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Beck has had an interesting career in my book. After all, how could an artist top themselves once they gave us one of the most defining songs of a decade, which would be “Loser” of course.
Well, he did so with two of the best albums from the 90’s, 1996’s Odelay and 1998’s Mutations. Midnite Vultures in 1999 wasn’t as genius, but “Sexx Laws is a killer track. Then in 2002 Beck got a bit depressed and stripped down for the fantastic Sea Change. But ever since it seems like Beck has been trying to find his way again. Guero in …read more

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Scott, from The Rock Dose and Metal Martyr, was awesome enough to send me this about the new Melvins album, which comes out today.
Grunge forefathers and sludge-birthing wildmen The Melvins are set to release their nineteenth (!) record. Nude With Boots continues in the LA-based band’s tradition of matching mega-huge riffs with walls of rhythm and electr-fried skuzz. Last week the band premiered the triumphant Boots via their Myspace page. In case you missed it, you can head over to their Last.fm page or to AOL Spinner to hear this monster in full.

In other Melvins news, the band has …read more

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Could Blur possibly be joining the seemingly endless slew of disbanded 90’s acts who want to give it another go?
According to the their bassist Alex James, it seems very likely that the Brit alt-rockers will reunite.
James recently spoke to the UK’s Independent, where revealed that the band were offered the headlining spot at this year’s world famous Glastonbury Festival. Here’s what he had to say: “Blur very nearly played Glastonbury this year,” and added that “There was a pang of regret when I heard Damon mum had nixed it at the 11th hour“.
Hmmm, seems a bit cheeky to me.
However, …read more

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Well it’s Independence Day, so it only seems fair that we do an FYI on The Presidents of the United States of America.

Chris Ballew (vocals, basitar) and Dave Dederer (guitbass) began as a duo under the names The Lo-Fis, The Dynamic Duo and Pure Frosting in 1993.
Drummer Jason Finn would soon round out the line-up, while he was still in the band Love Battery.
The complete band performed their first show in December of 1993 at Seattle’s Romper Room.
The President’s of the United States of America first recording was a 10 song cassette entitled Froggystyle.
The band signed to Seattle record label …read more

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The STP frontman has announced the release date for his upcoming solo album, which will follow his first solo album, 1998’s 12 Bar Blues. The still untitled album will hit shelves on October 7 through Weiland’s own label, Softdrive Records.
Here’s what Scotty had to say about the album, “It’ll definitely be a sonic journey like the first album was, a little bit more focused since I’m not on a narcotic journey like I was on the last one. But, you know, still sort of all over the map, because my influences are so wide and varied.“.
Weiland has been …read more

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My man Eddie doesn’t stop!
The Pearl Jam frontman toured the west coast back in April, and he just wrapped up a east coast run with Pearl Jam. He’ll head back on the road from August 1 to August 22.
This should make fans very happy as they can expect to see Vedder performing stripped down versions of Pearl Jam tracks, some covers and his solo work from the Into the Wild soundtrack. I think lucky fans will have a blast at these shows.
Liam Finn will be rejoining Vedder as the opening act. Tickets will go on sale to the public …read more

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This song is dedicated to Lindsay Lohan, since it’s her birthday and all.
Not to mention that it was on this day in 1776 that the Continental Congress declared independence from Great Britain, however, the Declaration of Independence wasn’t adopted until July 4. I already knew that little fun fact, seriously. So, just make your 4th of July festivities start two days earlier.
Anyways, “American Idiot” was the first single from the album of the same name , released on September 14, 2004. It’s a great in your face track that helped re-spark Green Day’s career. It would also land the …read more

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I’ve been revisiting this gem of an album lately and I seriously forgot how great it was.
Pinkerton was Weezer’s second album, released on September 24, 1996. It experienced a bit of difficulties from the get go, like scattered recording time since Rivers was at Harvard and had leg surgery. Heck, the album was almost pulled off the shelves because a security firm in California, called Pinkerton’s Inc., sued the band and their label Geffen for trademark infringement. Even with these set backs behind Pinkerton, the album failed to match the success of it’s predecessor, The Blue Album and was met …read more

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