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Eno • Hyde
High Life

If there’s one label you can’t put on Brian Eno, it’s complacent. As the go-to guy when it comes to fusing experimental production with pop, Eno seems open

Corrosion of Conformity
IX

It was quite the surprise when North Carolina’s Corrosion of Conformity reunited the Animosity-era line-up after singer/guitarist Pepper Keenan’s

The Fresh & Onlys
House of Spirits

How you start isn’t necessarily how you’ll end up. That’s generally true in life, but seems to take on greater significance in the music world. While

Centro-matic
Take Pride in Your Long Odds

Broadly speaking, Centro-matic once belonged to the alt-country nation, but much like a toddler and shoes, the band has quickly outgrown that label

Human Potential
Heartbreak Record

There’s going solo, which most often means leaving one band to lead another, and then there’s solo, the classic one-man band model of one person with

Peter Murphy
Lion

No one ever wants to be labeled. Who wants to be considered “alternative?” Bands may want to actively shrug the tags, but after a certain point

Fucked Up
Year of the Dragon

Some bands seem to have a pathological need to release music. Fucked Up seem to be one step past that. While they’ve only released three studio albums

Rush Midnight
Rush Midnight

For all the guff that electroclash and dance punk got back in the day, at the very least it was great to see someone mining something other than re-warmed

Seun Kuti & Egypt 80
A Long Way to the Beginning

If you are the child of a famous musician, there are two paths that you can take: embrace your parent’s legacy or run as far as you can in the opposite

Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton
This Is Stones Throw Records

As much as artists drove the alternative movement, the influence that labels had can’t be underestimated. And while the stories of the rock imprints are

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