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1.21.2024 History Of Alternative

1.21.2024 History Of Alternative

Beastie Boys, Blink-182, Veruca Salt and Social Distortion in this set, album anniversaries for Alice In Chains, Arctic Monkeys, Our Lady Peace, Belly, The Kooks, Meat Puppets and The Shins, plus Pearl Jam, New Order, Juliana Hatfield and The Smiths.

1.7.2024 History Of Alternative

1.7.2024 History Of Alternative

Oasis, Rage Against The Machine, Garbage and Joy Division in this set along with Radiohead, Rise Against, Social D and PJ Harvey, album anniversaries for Sugar Ray and Cage the Elephant, plus Pearl Jam, Pavement, The Pretenders, Blink-182, Marvelous 3 and Buck-O-Nine.

9.17.2023 History Of Alternative

9.17.2023 History Of Alternative

Jane’s Addiction, Oasis, Primus, Paramore and Nine Inch Nails in this set, album anniversaries for Nirvana, Social D, Cake, Liz Phair, Pearl Jam and Green Day, plus bands playing Riot Fest today: The Cure, AFI and The Dresden Dolls.

7.30.2023 History of Alternative

7.30.2023 History of Alternative

Weezer, The Cure, Garbage and Sinead O’Connor in this set, album anniversaries for The Strokes, Sublime, Sponge, Sheryl Crow and Silversun Pickups, plus music from the first day of MTV (8/1/81) Split Enz, The Vapors, The Pretenders and The Buggles’ “Video Killed The Radio Star” (watch the video here)

6.4.2023 History Of Alternative

6.4.2023 History Of Alternative

STP, Green Day, Garbage and The Cranberries in this set, album anniversaries for Sublime, The Lemonheads, Blink-182, Smashing Pumpkins, Coldplay, The White Stripes and Talking Heads, plus The Cure, Catherine Wheel and Baz Luhrmann’s “Everybody’s Free To Wear Sunscreen”. (watch the video here)

5.14.2023 History Of Alternative

5.14.2023 History Of Alternative

Beck, Depeche Mode, Blondie and No Doubt in this set, album anniversaries for Weezer, Green Day, Linkin Park, Primus and The Fixx, cool covers from Cake and Talking Heads, plus Mother’s Day favs from Fountains Of Wayne, Chvrches, Scissor Sisters, Outkast and Danzig!

3.26.2023 History Of Alternative

3.26.2023 History Of Alternative

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.

11.6.2022 History Of Alternative

11.6.2022 History Of Alternative

Weezer, Oasis, Our Lady Peace and The Cure in this set, album anniversaries for R.E.M, Rage Against The Machine, Foo Fighters, Fiona Apple, Alice In Chains and Alanis, plus Pearl Jam, The Pretenders, Public Image LTD and Flobots’ “Handlebars”.

9.11.2022 History Of Alternative

9.11.2022 History Of Alternative

Green Day, Beastie Boys, The Cure and Alanis in this set, album anniversaries for Muse, Arcade Fire, Jet, Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Black Keys, plus Riot Fest bands Alkaline Trio, Nine Inch Nails, Portugal. The Man, My Chemical Romance, Less Than Jake and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

8.14.2022 History Of Alternative

8.14.2022 History Of Alternative

Weezer, Nine Inch Nails, 311 and Veruca Salt in this set, album anniversaries for Garbage, The Eels, Rancid, the Chili Peppers and “Tubthumping”, cool covers from Orgy and Cowboy Junkies, plus XTC, Our Lady Peace and Flobots’ “Handlebars”.

5.22.2022 History Of Alternative

5.22.2022 History Of Alternative

Depeche Mode, The Smiths, Alice In Chains and Alanis in this set, album anniversaries for Radiohead, Everclear, A Perfect Circle, Soundgarden, Gorillaz and The Cure, plus cool covers from Orgy and Cowboy Junkies and Wheatus’ “Teenage Dirtbag”.

3.6.2022 History Of Alternative

3.6.2022 History Of Alternative

Album anniversaries aplenty this week for Soundgarden, Nine Inch Nails, 2 U2 albums, Radiohead, Buffalo Tom, Kaiser Chiefs, Husker Du and Evanescence, cool covers from The Lemonheads, Dynamite Hack and Sinead O’Connor, plus Green Day, Social D, The Smiths and “Popular” from Nada Surf.

1.24.2021 History Of Alternative

1.24.2021 History Of Alternative

Oasis, Incubus, Radiohead and Green Day here along with Bad Religion, Blondie and Bjork, plus Social D, New Order and a few 90’s one-hit wonders from The Refreshments, Spacehog and The Rentals.