Alive in the Nineties

The Fingers

Trash from LA recorded in SF

Jan 15 • Aaron Gilbreath

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December 2025

Talking With 13th Ward Social Club

How a guy with no training except as a listener taught himself to create music and invented chooch core, paisan punk, wop wave, and marinara music.

Dec 19, 2025 • Aaron Gilbreath

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May 2025

Pavement

Indie ever after

May 17, 2025 • Jason Fine

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March 2025

Paranormal Researcher Heather Taddy's Life As a '90s Music Fan

Music, pilgrimages, and a series of convergences

Mar 29, 2025 • Heather Taddy

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The Breeders

One mother shares the ache and triumph with alt-rock royalty

Mar 1, 2025 • Tessa T

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October 2024

It's a Bittersweet Symphony This Li-ife

(Trying to make ends meet, you're a slave to money, then you die-i...)

Oct 26, 2024 • Aaron Gilbreath

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The Chills

A 1990 story about the release of Submarine Bells, the album that may stand as this New Zealand bands’ masterpiece and is one of the defining albums of…

Oct 5, 2024 • Jason Cohen

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May 2024

The Sound of 1990 & '91

Flipside Records' compilations capture one moment at the dawn of the alternative era

May 25, 2024 • Aaron Gilbreath

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March 2024

Trading Letters and Music With Other Depeche Mode Fans

In the 1980s and '90s, hardcore DM fans mailed each other tapes and rare music and become pen pals in the process.

Mar 30, 2024 • Aaron Gilbreath

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February 2024

Fishbone Is For The Children!

Taking my daughter to a Fishbone show completed one circle in my circle of life.

Feb 10, 2024 • Aaron Gilbreath

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December 2023

Cornershop

This UK band brought some much-needed multiculturalism to white rock ‘n roll America in the ‘90s

Dec 9, 2023 • Larry Kanter and Larry

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November 2023

Me? A Grateful Dead Fan?

Old music habits die hard, but at 46, my rock 'n' roll heart found an antidote to pandemic malaise in the quintessential hippie band.

Nov 11, 2023 • Aaron Gilbreath

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