U2, Veruca Salt, Alice In Chains and Alkaline Trio in this set, album anniversaries for The Clash and No Doubt, plus Pearl Jam, Letters To Cleo, The Used, Matthew Sweet, Hot Hot Heat and Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Radiohead, Green Day, Paramore and The Breeders in this set, album anniversaries for Sponge, Gin Blossoms, 311, Arcade Fire and Sheryl Crow, plus Blink-182, Morrissey and music from the first day of MTV in 1981: The Buggles, Blondie, Split Enz and The Vapors.
Depeche Mode, Oasis, The Cranberries and Social D in this set, album anniversaries for Beastie Boys, Smashing Pumpkins, Phoenix and Gorillaz, plus U2, Nine Inch Nails, Psychedelic Furs, The The, The Smiths, The Smithereens, a few songs of “summer” and Violent Femmes’ “American Music”.
Beastie Boys, The Breeders, R.E.M. and The Ramones in this set, album anniversaries for Soundgarden, Nine Inch Nails, Evanescence, U2, Sinead O’Connor, Jack Johnson and Kaiser Chiefs, plus Our Lady Peace, Buffalo Tom, Urge Overkill, Save Ferris, Fugazi and The Psychedelic Furs.
Green Day, Radiohead, Rancid and Siouxsie And The Banshees in this set, album anniversaries for Beastie Boys and The Offspring, plus Pearl Jam, Paramore, Bad Religion, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Cure and Angels And Airwaves.
Blur, Violent Femmes, Garbage and They Might Be Giants in this set, several songs from the Singles soundtrack and album anniversaries for Bjork, The Darkness, Foo Fighters, The White Stripes and The Prodigy, plus 311, Blondie, Bad Religion and “4th Of July” from the band X. (watch the video here)
Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, The Breeders and Urge Overkill in this set, album anniversaries for Beck, Brand New, Blink 182, Nada Surf, STP, Faith No More and The Flaming Lips, plus some Father’s Day tunes from Pearl Jam, Weezer, Violent Femmes and “Father Of Mine” from Everclear.
Beck, Social D, Sonic Youth and The Replacements in this set, album anniversaries for The Pixies, Rage Against The Machine, Live, The Cure and Depeche Mode, plus Pearl Jam, Garbage, Material Issue and we did it all for…Limp Bizkit! (revisit the Nookie video here)
Cake, Beastie Boys, Nine Inch Nails and L7 in this set, album anniversaries for Linkin Park, Social D, STP, Gorillaz, Taking Back Sunday and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, plus The Cure, Oasis, Siouxsie And The Banshees and Good Charlotte.
U2’s “New Year’s Day”, Blink 182, Nine Inch Nails and The Ramones in this set along with Weezer, Cake, Liz Phair and New Order, plus Oasis, The Flaming Lips, Letters To Cleo and “3 Strange Days” from School Of Fish.
Weezer, The Replacements, Alice In Chains and alt-J in this set, album anniversaries for Pearl Jam, Beastie Boys, Bad Religion, U2 and Sum 41, plus Nine Inch Nails, Veruca Salt, The Strokes, Soul Coughing and The Stone Roses.
Beck, The Breeders, Nine Inch Nails and 311 in this set, album anniversaries for Linkin Park, Smashing Pumpkins, Incubus, Stone Temple Pilots, Foo Fighters and Amy Winehouse, plus The Cure, Blondie, Buffalo Tom, Blur’s “Parklife” and They Might Be Giants.
Beastie Boys, Blink 182, Bjork and The Smiths in this set, album anniversaries for Pearl Jam, Green Day, Jimmy Eat World, Fatboy Slim, Matthew Sweet, Nine Inch Nails and Depeche Mode, plus The Breeders, XTC, Stroke 9, 311 and The Darkness.
Riot Fest bands Nine Inch Nails, My Chemical Romance, Bad Religion, Placebo, Alkaline Trio and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs in this set along with album anniversaries for Weezer, The Clash, Primus, Death Cab For Cutie, Linkin Park and The Raconteurs, plus Beck, Veruca Salt and Reel Big Fish’s cover of “Take On Me”.
Weezer, Beck, Depeche Mode and Veruca Salt in this set along with The Ramones, Morrissey, Muse and Metric, cool covers from the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Orgy, plus XTC, INXS, R.E.M. and “Scooby Snacks” from Fun Lovin’ Criminals.
Beck, Beastie Boys, Nine Inch Nails and Social D in this set along with Weezer, The Replacements, Veruca Salt and Bjork, plus The Cure, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and a refresher course in popularity from Nada Surf.
Green Day, Social D, Rancid and the Beastie Boys lead this set along with Veruca Salt, Nine Inch Nails, Oasis and Depeche Mode, plus proper Nirvana tunes and even more proper tunes from Empire Records including Edwyn Collins, The The and Sponge. Happy Rex Manning Day!
Here’s this week’s road map for our weekly 2 hour road trip into new music! I had to include Actors as they were just in town for the Coldwaves Festival at Metro and did an even longer set at JBTV! One of my favs of the year. Hope you find something you like! -wALT
