Alternative music, cult films, and pop culture explored through a Gen X lens — with reviews, interviews, and a deep-dive podcast.
Best Rock Albums of 2022: 10 awesome rock albums from another crazy year, featuring releases from Placebo, Suede, Dead Cross, The Cult and more. As 2022 comes to an end, it’s time to reflect. The pandemic has become more manageable, but is still with us, and on a global scale most things still feel out of […]
35 Albums Turning 30 in 2022: The Best Albums of 1992: a list of the best alternative, metal, hip-hop, indie and experimental releases from 1992. Last year I boldly declared that 1991 was the best musical year of the 90’s. And I still stand by that. But by damn, 1992 is a very close second. Whereas […]
13 Best Rock and Metal Albums Of 2021: great music from a not-so-great year. I feel like every time I do yearly-best-of’s, I have to comment about how great music made a shitty year more bearable. Welp, 2021 was certainly another year that was pretty fucking terrible, when we desperately needed as many sonic escape […]
SLIS Podcast-Episode 41: Robin Guthrie Talks New Releases Mockingbird Love and Pearldiving, Remembering Harold Budd and The Legacy of The Cocteau Twins. As the guitarist/multi-instrumentalist and songwriter for The Cocteau Twins, Robin Guthrie’s unique sonic palette helped spearhead and popularize the dream pop sub-genre, with songs that emerged like hazy daydreams through his unique combination […]
Prolific bassist talks new collaborative release via his new self owned label in our latest podcast episode. For our 39th episode I speak to Trevor Dunn, the bassist and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work in the experimental rock group Mr. Bungle, as well as Tomahawk (who released their latest album ‘Tonic Immobility’ in March), […]
The Best Alternative Rock and Metal Albums of 2020: 13 of the best releases from a year that needed great music more than ever. What more can be said about the shit-show that was 2020? It’s been awful, exhausting, demoralizing, harrowing, maddening and relentless. But despite that, we found ways to adapt, some by sidestepping […]
Episode 35: 25 Albums Turning 30 in 2025-The Best Albums of 1995-SLIS Podcast *This episode originally ran in 2020, when these albums turned 25. Following last year’s podcast episode celebrating the best albums from 1994, co-host Chris Logan and I dive into the best 25 albums from 25 years ago, in this case the year 1995. […]
The 19 Best Rock and Metal Albums of 2019: saying farewell to a great year for music as this decade comes to a close. Welp, it’s hard to believe that we’re not only about to say goodbye to 2019, but also to the decade. It has been a very strange, stressful year (and let’s face […]
Episode 32: 25 Albums Turning 25 in 2019-The Best Albums of 1994-SLIS Podcast: tackling the best releases from another amazing year of music. Following our podcast episode ranking the best albums from 1989, co-host Chris Logan and I dive in to the best 25 albums from 1993 turning 25 this year. ’94 was a HUGE […]
Episode 31: Medicine’s Brad Laner Talks New Covers Album ‘Scarred For Life’-SLIS Podcast: American shoegaze mastermind discusses new covers album, reuniting with his original vocalist, his creative legacy and more. On this week’s podcast my special guest is Brad Laner, best known as the guitarist and songwriter for Medicine, one of the most interesting and […]