Archive for October 2014

Construction of a New Action (1990s Chicago Underground Rock)

By | Published Tuesday, October 21, 2014


Continuing our focus on 1990s indie/underground rock scenes, this week we turned our attention to Chicago. Rather than focus heavily on a few genres or labels (as we did with our recent D.C. and Olympia shows), we tried to cover a wide range of the Windy City's musical styles and scenes/communities. We purposefully skipped the city's alt-rock heroes of the day: Smashing Pumpkins, Liz Phair, Urge Overkill, Veruca Salt, Wilco, et al. And there were a lot of great bands that we didn't have time to include: Tar, The Coctails, Red Red Meat, Mekons, pretty much all the emo/post-hardcore bands apart from Cap'n Jazz. But we were able to include a number of personal favorites (Trenchmouth, Lake of Dracula, Los Crudos, Assembly Line), as well as feature a mini-set of artists from Chicago's terrific "now wave" noise rock scene of the mid-1990s.

Here's the playlist for our Saturday, October 11, 2014, broadcast:

Shellac - "Wingwalker"
Tortoise - "Cornpone Brunch"
Gastr del Sol - "Is That a Rifle When it Rains?"
The Sea and Cake - "Flat Lay the Water"
Joan of Arc - "Post Coitus Rock"
Trenchmouth - "The Volcanic Action of My Soul"
Assembly Line People Program - "New Minds"
Jaks - "Fidgecake & Pismire"
Los Crudos - "Crudo Soy!"
Charles Bronson - "Chicago"
The Jesus Lizard - "Nub"
Ministry - "TV II"
Bobby Conn - "United Nations"
U.S. Maple - "Letter to ZZ Top"
Flying Luttenbachers - "Fist Through Glass"
Scissor Girls - "Vamps, Here!"
Lake of Dracula - "Blues Fantastique"
Cap'n Jazz - "Basil's Kite"

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The International Pop Underground's Hometown, Part 2 (1990s Olympia Indie Rock)

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Here's the playlist for Part 2 of our 1990s Olympia series, The International Pop Underground's Hometown, which was broadcast on Saturday, October 4, 2014:

Beat Happening - "Tiger Trap"
Frumpies - "Be Good"
Bangs - "Vintage Piranha"
The Need - "Crush"
Heavens to Betsy - "Terrorist"
Excuse 17 - "The Drop Dead Look"
Sleater-Kinney - "You Ain't It"
Nirvana - "Aneurysm"
Seaweed - "Deertrap"
Screaming Trees - "Who Lies in Darkness"
Fitz of Depression - "Sitting in a Room"
Young Ginns - "Cemetary"
The Halo Benders - "Canned Oxygen"
Lois - "Press Play and Record"
Pell Mell - "Blacktop"
Melvins - "Night Goat"

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The International Pop Underground's Hometown, Part 1 (1990s Olympia Indie Rock)

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We've been spending the early part of this Fall semester exploring 1990s U.S. indie/underground rock through the lens of various cities and local scenes. Last week, we listened to the Washington, D.C., indie-pop scene, with a focus on the TeenBeat, Slumberland, and Simple Machines record labels. This week kicks off a pair of shows exploring 1990s music from the other Washington - the State of Washington. And in particular, its capital city of Olympia. Although Seattle and "grunge" garnered most of the mainstream press headlines during the early/mid-1990s, the much smaller Olympia - just about an hour south of the Emerald City - was one of the country's hotbeds of indie rock and DIY punk. Not only was Olympia home, at least for a time, to everyone from Bikini Kill to Nirvana, but it was also host to two of the defining record labels of 1990s underground rock: K and Kill Rock Stars.

Here's the playlist for Part 1 of our 1990s Olympia series, which we're titling The International Pop Underground's Hometown. It was broadcast on Saturday, September 27, 2014:

Beat Happening - "Fortune Cookie Prize"
Bratmobile - "Cool Schmool"
Unwound - "Nervous Energy"
Karp - "13 Ways to a Cavity"
Bikini Kill - "Feels Blind"
Dub Narcotic Sound System - "Monkey Hips and Rice"
The Go Team - "Bikini Twilight"
Some Velvet Sidewalk - "Big City Plans"
Long Hind Legs - "Kicking Giant"
Kicking Giant - "This Song"
Satisfact - "Unswitched"
Mocket - "Spark Plug"
Witchypoo - "The Reaper Song"
Lync - "Two Feet in Front"
Modest Mouse - "Dukes Up"
godheadSilo - "Master of Balance"

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DC, Not Dischord (1990s DC Indie Rock)

By | Published Tuesday, October 7, 2014


Minor Threat, Fugazi, Nation of Ulysses, Bad Brains. Those are likely some of the bands you first think of when you consider music from our nation's capitol. Great bands, all. And indeed, Washington, D.C.'s hardcore punk and post-hardcore scene is rich and deep. But as we already play those acts often here on The Way Out - check out our Also On Dischord show from this past April - we thought we'd feature a different area of D.C. underground music this week. We've turned our attention to D.C.'s early/mid-1990s indie-pop scene, in particular acts on three of the city's best record labels: Slumberland, Simple Machines, and TeenBeat. (We took some artistic liberties with the NYC-based Versus, based on their relationship with TeenBeat.) While Slumberland and TeenBeat are no longer run out of D.C. and Simple Machines sadly ceases to exist, we nevertheless thought we'd pay tribute to three of the record labels that helped make D.C. underground rock music so great these past few decades.

Here's the playlist for our Saturday, September 20, 2014, broadcast:

Whorl - "Maybe It's Better"
Unrest - "Can't Sit Still"
Black Tambourine - "Throw Aggi Off the Bridge"
Lilys - "February Fourteenth"
The Ropers - "I Don't Mind"
Teenage Gang Debs - "On Tape"
Tsunami - "Be Like That"
Eggs - "It's Hard to Be an Egg"
Tuscadero - "Nancy Drew"
Blast Off Country Style - "Hey, Hey, I Love You Bitch"
My New Boyfriend - "Thurston Dance"
Versus - "Blade of Grass"
Bastro - "Sketch for Sleepy"
Lorelei - "The Bitter Air"
Velocity Girl - "Tales of Brave Aphrodite"

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