Elastica – The Menace (2000)
Girl powered modern rock nostalgia
The second album from the abrasive brit alt punk rockers! In 1995, the female fronted Britpop Alternative Rock Band Elastica headed by ex-Suede members Justine Frischmann and Justin Welch appeared out of nowhere to score a massive hit with the hugely irresistible “Connection.” That song, which borrowed heavily from an older track by Wire, propelled Elastica’s self-titled debut album to the top of the British charts and earned the band a spot on that year’s Lollapalooza tour.
Radiohead – Kid A (2000)
The weirdest Alt rock album to ever sell a million copies
The English rock band Radiohead’s fourth studio album, the radically different Kid A (2000) severely divided critics when it was released, some ruing that it probably would not sell many copies. Can’t blame them too much because this is indeed a challenging, often downright confusing piece of alternative rock music that will leave even ardent Radiohead fans scratching […]
filous – All My Friends Are Rich ft. Louis III (Official Music Video)
Summery ear candy for the masses
“All My Friends Are Rich” by Austrian “house” producer and remixer filous (Matthias Oldofredi) in collaboration with English singer-songwriter Louis III is the kind of sly humourous track that you’ll either fall in love with or hate for its ironic lyrics and sugary pop sweetness. Nonetheless, the summery indie feel-goodness by this duo is so […]
The Devlins Greatest Hits – An Exclusive Compilation
Melodic Alternative - Indie Rock Selection from the Splendid Dublin Fourpiece
While The Devlins burst into the alt rock scene in 1994 with their spectacular debut album ‘Drift’ (produced by the award-winning Malcolm Burn, a protégé of Daniel Lanois); I heard them first only in 1996 on the soundtrack of the Winona Ryder – Lukas Haas coming of age teen flick ‘Boys’. Like Ian Brown, another […]
