This week's playlist includes new music by Fiona Apple, Foxing, The Armed, Tirzah, Quicksand, Cory Hanson, Lucy Dacus, MIKE, Jose Gonzalez, Liz Phair, Greentea Peng, Lambchop, and more.
Touch and Go and Quarterstick's rosters include Slint, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Jesus Lizard, Mekons, Naked Raygun, TV on the Radio, Brainiac, Calexico, Big Black and tons more.
”The five of us talk about what kind of influences and sounds we want to incorporate. We end up sharing and talking about so much different music over our group texts or in the van... this playlist is some of those songs, some classics and just some recent great tracks we’ve been digging...”
Like grunge, the '90s pop punk boom was the culmination of a sound that had been bubbling up for over a decade. For this edition of his edition of 'In Defense of the Genre,' I look back on 15 classic '80s albums that shaped that sound...