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Archive for the ‘Alternative’ Category
OK Go – This Too Shall Pass
This video has seen a wave of popularity this past week, circumnavigating the Internet and giving the boys from OK Go another amazing video to their portfolio. Their video to the song “Here it Goes Again” won a Grammy and has tens of millions of page views on YouTube. “This Too Shall Pass” [...]
Presidents of the United States of America: Peaches
Peaches, a song by Seattle-based Alternative Rock band, “The Presidents of the United States” was released February 27, 1996 – almost fourteen whole years ago. Makes you realize you’re getting old, doesn’t it?! It’s one of those songs that instantly recognizes, but few will remember unless prompted. The song isn’t very [...]
The Cranberries: Zombie
Following on from yesterday’s post, The Cranberries are another band that were prominent in the 1990’s with a string of hits that included “Linger”, “Dreams” and “Free to Decide”. Starting out in Limerick, Ireland in 1989 with the name “The Cranberry Saw Us”, the band quickly shortened their name and their debut album [...]
The Vines: Sun Child
In the early 2000’s, The Vines, along with fellow contemporaries such as The Strokes, The Hives, The White Stripes are regarded as bringing back Rock music to the mainstream audience, after the period of 90’s alternative and grunge music that plagued the airwaves. Much of The Vines early work has been compared to [...]
Uncle Tupelo: We’ve Been Had
hat is this – Led Zeppelin goes country? The bass in this song is strikingly familiar to the bass line of Zeppelin’s “House of the Holy”, and that is probably why I was able to listen beyond the first minute of this alt-country-rock song from Uncle Tupelo. Uncle Tupelo are not that [...]
R.E.M.: Orange Crush
range Crush. That’s right, the Orange are going to crush Pitt today in their Big East College Hoops match-up, and I will be at the game to witness this. And with the Orangemen ranked 5th in the country and off to a perfect start to the season, would anybody dare disagree with [...]
Elbow – Mirrorball
Great version of a great tune! Elbow are an alternative rock band that hail from Manchester in the UK, and had limited commercial success over their first three album releases when compared to their peers (Muse, Feeder, Radiohead, Coldplay, Doves, Keane). Their most recent album release, “The Seldom Seen Kid”, released in 2008, [...]
