Metric

8.4.2024 History Of Alternative

August 6, 2024 | bphillips

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.

5.26.2024 History Of Alternative

May 26, 2024 | bphillips

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”.

3.3.2024 History Of Alternative

March 3, 2024 | bphillips

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.

11.12.2023 History Of Alternative

November 12, 2023 | bphillips

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.

7.2.2023 History Of Alternative

July 2, 2023 | bphillips

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)

6.18.2023 History Of Alternative

June 18, 2023 | bphillips

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.

4.16.2023 History Of Alternative

April 16, 2023 | bphillips

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)

3.26.2023 History Of Alternative

March 26, 2023 | bphillips

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.

1.1.2023 History Of Alternative

January 1, 2023 | bphillips

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.

11.20.2022 History Of Alternative

November 20, 2022 | bphillips

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.

10.23.2022 History Of Alternative

October 23, 2022 | bphillips

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.

Metric — The Lounge

October 18, 2022 | ZSpang

Metric stopped by The Lounge to give us a few “Dirt Road” versions of their songs!! Check it out here!

10.16.2022 History Of Alternative

October 16, 2022 | bphillips

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.

5.15.2022 History Of Alternative

May 15, 2022 | bphillips

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”.

2.20.2022 History Of Alternative

February 20, 2022 | bphillips

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.

6.20.2021 History Of Alternative

June 20, 2021 | bphillips

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.

4.4.2021 History Of Alternative

April 4, 2021 | bphillips

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!

Top 20 alt songs: patience in our current pandemic

July 25, 2020 | Kevin

These are the song for all of our collective anxieties and stress right now. Stream them here.

Queued Up #299 Playlist – 9.30.18

October 1, 2018 | wALT

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