listening to the @digmeoutpodcast.com Albums of 2006 roundup and I do have to defend the honor of The Current, they absolutely still play Willie Nelson and the Ramones, and not even all that much Death Cab anymore.

The Band That Got #1 Most-Added on Rock Radio in 1996 and Then Vanished Completely Reacharound’s Who’s Tommy Cooper has zero Spotify listeners. The album is worth your time anyway.

This album would have broken through in 2001, not 1996. The garage rock moment made Jet famous. Reacharound had already recorded this in 1996. They were Jet before Jet existed (only better) open.substack.com/pub/digmeout...

The Band That Got #1 Most-Added on Rock Radio in 1996 and Then Vanished Completely Reacharound’s Who’s Tommy Cooper has zero Spotify listeners. The album is worth your time anyway.

"Big Chair" was #1 most-added on active rock radio in 1996. Spotify now shows 0 monthly listeners. Reacharound had one single, no manager, and one album. New episode below.
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Was so happy when i saw Lou was releasing a new album, looking forward to getting the vinyl. Ready Or Not & Long Hard Look are such great albums.

Such an iconic, recognizable voice. It felt like going back to high school when I listened to the album.

Flea’s jazz debut with Thom Yorke and Nick Cave, the New Pornographers’ best album in a decade, and a pop-punk comeback 18 years in the making. From an RHCP bassist covering Glen Campbell to a Foreigner vocalist finishing songs shelved for 37 years: 6 new rock releases worth your full attention, plus what’s coming next on Dig Me Out and the l

Lou Gramm finished songs he and Bruce Turgon co-wrote in the 80s. Shelved, unfinished, untouched for 37 years. Now completed and out this week as Released. Vivian Campbell plays guitar on one track. The voice that made Foreigner's biggest songs work is still there.
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L7: Too Loud, Too Punk, Too Female, Too Everything L7 should have been one of the biggest bands of the 1990s.

L7 influenced grunge and riot grrrl but belonged to neither. Donita Sparks in 1993: "There was the girl band thing, the foxcore farce, the Seattle band farce, the grunge-rock thing. We've been around longer than all that stuff. We're a rock band from Los Angeles."

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Josh Ritter’s The Animal Years Turns 20: The Folk Masterpiece That Never Got Its Moment Stephen King loved it. Critics loved it. The mainstream rock audience never showed up.

Put headphones on during "Monster Ballads." There's a synthesizer loop buried under everything that you'll miss on speakers. Completely changes how the song hits.

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It’s me trying in a new decade. Does it make me look young and hip?

Josh Ritter’s The Animal Years Turns 20: The Folk Masterpiece That Never Got Its Moment Stephen King loved it. Critics loved it. The mainstream rock audience never showed up.

Stephen King called it the best album of 2006. Most people have never heard it.

Josh Ritter's The Animal Years turns 20. We went deep on this week's Dig Me Out podcast.

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When Instinct Meets Intention: Brian Futter Talks Good Day Father

For Brian Futter, long recognized for shaping immersive guitar worlds, this project marks a shift toward something more interior and deliberate. Alongside Tanya Donelly, whose voice has long carried a rare emotional clarity, he constructs a sound that resists easy categorization.

Skyhooks Got Banned. Hurriganes Took Over Finland. One Got Signed by Zeppelin. All Four are Lost. Your vote decides which heavy 70s cult classic gets dug out next.

Four countries. Four heavy 70s cult classics. One gets dug out.
Skyhooks, Hurriganes, Thundermug, Detective go head-to-head in the new Dig Me Out poll — vote now and defend your pick. #70sRock #HeavyRock #ClassicRock #AlbumPoll open.substack.com/pub/digmeout...

Wow. I inherited a super obscure record from my grandfather that was recorded by a band on a cruise ship in the 1960s, and even that was on Discogs.

The 1973 Album by The Sensational Alex Harvey Band That Sounds Like Rocky Horror Meets AC/DC Why Next still feels unhinged, theatrical, and way ahead of its time in the glam and hard rock canon.

A Scottish glam cabaret band that Cleveland treated like hometown heroes? This week we dig into Next (1973) by The Sensational Alex Harvey Band — swampy riffs, piano-driven theatrics, “Faith Healer,” “Gang Bang,” the whole wild thing.

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Before You Replay Master of Puppets, Hear This The forgotten 1986 Mortal Sin album that sounds like Australia’s answer to Metallica, Slayer, and Maiden.

What if Metallica, Slayer, and Maiden had an Australian cousin you never heard about? We dig into Mortal Sin’s 1986 debut Mayhemic Destruction—drum‑forward, DIY, and way heavier than its distribution ever was. #thrash #80sMetal #HeavyMetal open.substack.com/pub/digmeout...

In the latest episode of the Chip Chats podcast, I speak with Jude Smith. Jude's daughter Nell passed away on Oct. 6, 2024 at the age of 17.

NEW PODCAST EPISODE: Jude Smith and I talk about child loss and grief. Jude's 17-year-old daughter Nell passed away on Oct. 6, 2024. In 2021, Nell recorded an album of Nick Cave covers with the Flaming Lips and performed on the Stephen Colbert show.

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Eleven New Albums About Refusing to Go Quietly From Converge and Puscifer to Beck and Big Big Train, these records wrestle with collapse and renewal—then we rewind to Agitation Free and KMFDM to hear where the noise started.

Quick hits on 11 records about hanging on, pushing back, or just yelling louder—plus two throwback podcast episodes on Agitation Free and KMFDM if you’d rather spend a little time escaping to the 70s or 90s. #nowplaying #newmusic www.digmeoutpodcast.com/p/eleven-new...

Sonic Amadea, by Good Day Father track by Good Day Father

The always great @tanyadonelly.bsky.social and guitarist Brian Futter (of Catherine Wheel) pair up for what is probably my most anticipated release of the year. Pure blissed-out shoegaze right here.

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KMFDM’s Naïve/Hell to Go: The Twice-Born Industrial Classic Inside the banned samples, Wax Trax! drama, and Slayer riffs that turned this 1990s cult favorite into a ghost in the streaming era.

New episode: we dig into KMFDM’s Naïve/Hell to Go—recalled for an illegal Carmina Burana sample, rebuilt with new riffs, and still one of the wildest ’90s industrial records out there.
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Reposting this link to my conversation with Ben Kweller and Rocky Votolato about losing kids. I'll have a new episode with another father who lost a child coming next week. It may be a heavy subject matter, but I hope you'll give a listen.

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It's been a minute, but we revisited this underappreciated band way back in 2011.
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Agitation Free: The Album Nobody Remembers (But Tangerine Dream Does) How a Berlin band turned Egyptian street recordings into one of 1972’s strangest masterpieces

Agitation Free’s “Malesch” (1972) won our listener poll—a German krautrock band that literally traveled to Egypt, walked around Cairo with tape recorders, then came home and turned street sounds into one of the weirdest albums of the ’70s.
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Broken Social Scene’s You Forgot It In People Is Peak Indie Rock—And Everything After Is Them Chasing It Why 2002’s greatest collaborative album became the high-water mark

Early 2000s Toronto was the place for indie rock.
Broken Social Scene. Arcade Fire. New Pornographers. between them they could field a CFL team (but couldn’t catch).
Our latest episode celebrates the moment. #TorontoMusic #CanadianMusic #IndieRock open.substack.com/pub/digmeout...

Nothing But a Good Time… or Cold War Therapy? Inside the Cold War anxiety, class struggle, and teenage escapism hiding under the spandex of 80s heavy metal—and why Rock of Pages argues those “dumb” songs were anything but.

80s metal still gets dismissed as “by and for dummies.”
This week: literature professor Jesse Kavadlo on why Def Leppard, Metallica, and Dio are smarter than you think—PMRC hearings, Cold War dread, and class struggle under the hairspray. #80s #Metal open.substack.com/pub/digmeout...

Rate Broken Social Scene’s You Forgot It in People Hit play on the 2002 album, pick your rating, and help shape the episode.

DMO Union member Johnny H. tossed You Forgot It in People into the ring, so we’re putting Broken Social Scene’s 2002 album through the full deep dive treatment.

Is it a Worthy Album, a Better EP, or a Decent Single? Share your take. open.substack.com/pub/digmeout...

Breathe In, Breathe Out: How Sixteen Stone Turned Bush Into Grunge Royalty (And Made Everyone Forget They Were British) Guitar riffs, hooks, and the songwriting nobody gave them credit for

🎙️ NEW EPISODE: Bush - Sixteen Stone
six million copies sold. five killer singles. one album everyone bought but nobody admits loving.
Turns out those guitar riffs and the songwriting are better than we remembered. #bush #grunge #90s open.substack.com/pub/digmeout...

English Occult Rock vs. Memphis Blues-Psych vs. Berlin Krautrock Four listener-nominated heavy 70s albums. Four completely different stories. Your vote decides which gets featured.

Four heavy 70s albums. Four stories.
- Joseph: Memphis session cats, blues-psych chaos
- Agitation Free: Berlin musicians inspired by Egypt
- Zior: London occult darkness
- Humble Pie: supergroup evolution
Vote which one gets the podcast. open.substack.com/pub/digmeout...

46% of Our Community Voted for This Leafhound Album—Here’s Why They Were Right Growers of Mushroom is the record that proves heavy rock was still finding itself in the early 70s.

Robert Plant vocals. Jimmy Page guitar tones. Black Sabbath riffs.
This album had EVERYTHING except the one thing that mattered most. Is this the most frustrating “what if?” in 70s Rock? #heavy70s #protometal open.substack.com/pub/digmeout...

Stop Scrolling. Here Are 20 Lost 90s & 00s Albums Worth Your Time. 20 worthy picks—from forgotten masterpieces to overlooked classics that nobody talks about anymore.

We've spent 2025 listening to a lot of records from 1990-2010 that we’d never heard before. Some blew our minds. Some didn’t. But here are the 20 we believe deserve another listen.

Come rediscover them with us. #90sRock #ObscureMusic #DeepCuts #ForgottenMusic open.substack.com/pub/digmeout...

80s Metal Tournament: Four Forgotten Classics. One Winner. Dangerous Toys. Diary of a Madman. Lillian Axe. LA Guns. Cast your vote and help us decide which forgotten album gets excavated next.

If you could go back to the 80s and change one album’s fate:
Dangerous Toys - Dangerous Toys | Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman | Lillian Axe - Love + War | LA Guns - LA Guns
Which would you save? open.substack.com/pub/digmeout...