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808 was the category I feared most going into this early-90s project, and not necessarily for the reasons one might expect. Hip-hop was clearly becoming […]

Wrong Wave may be my favorite category because it is built from musicians pushing the envelope and playing with sound. This is not really about […]

We probably do not need further evidence that the pop world is fickle, but if we did, the fact that only three artists made the […]

What a difference a half-decade can make. By the late 80s, the old rules of hard rock and heavy rock were already starting to wobble. […]

Well, here we are again for Round 3: the early 90s edition. And instead of losing categories, we have somehow found it necessary to expand […]

Pull up to the table for your next serving of musical fruitcake. Yes, it may look suspicious at first. There are strange colors, unexpected textures, […]

Say hello to our latest batch of mostly new art-school transfers. You can almost see them sitting together at the same cafeteria table, snidely snickering […]

If Fossil Fuel is the old guard staring into the late-80s mirror and Distortion Field is hard rock mutating into something uglier and stranger, then […]

Distortion Field 85–89 is a very different creature from the first installment. This is less a clean playlist than a Frankenstein monster stitched together from […]

The first version of Fossil Fuel almost sounds like a dance party compared to this collection. Something has changed. The old guard is no longer […]