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• Sunday Morning Playlist: Dream Pop

  Cocteau Twins; Mazzy Star; Galaxie 500; Lush; Moose; His Name Is Alive; Mercury Rev; Mojave 3; Single Gun Theory; Luna.

  Review by uao — on Jun 19, 2005

• Sunday Morning Playlist: Proto Punk

  Velvet Underground; The Stooges; Pere Ubu; MC5; New York Dolls; Television; Captain Beefheart; The Modern Lovers; Flamin' Groovies; The Dictators

  Review by uao — on Jun 12, 2005

• Sunday Morning Playlist: Electronica

  Chemical Brothers; Moby; Aphex Twin; The Orb; Tricky; The Prodigy; Underworld; Massive Attack; DJ Shadow; Mouse on Mars

  Review by uao — on Jun 05, 2005

• Sunday Morning Playlist: Acid Rock

  Iron Butterfly, Blue Cheer, Steppenwolf, SRC, Ultimate Spinach, Kak, Attila, The Frost, Electric Prunes, Big Brother & The Holding Co.

  Review by uao — on May 29, 2005

• Sunday Morning Playlist: Lo-Fi

  Obviously, low fidelity refers to sonic quality, as in a low fidelity recording or a low fidelity tape. It is naturally trebly, neither reaching crispness on the cymbals, or timbre in the bass. It is often the sign of a cheaply recorded artefact, or a cheaply constructed playback unit. A bootleg album is typically low-fidelity. A home-made tape usually is.

  Review by uao — on May 15, 2005

• Sunday Morning Playlist: Emo

  Emo is a style of rock that reached its zenith towards the end of the 1990's; its roots lie in hardcore punk, although emo itself isn't punk rock; it also owes some debt to grunge, but it isn't grunge, either. It is an almost exclusively indie-rock phenomenon (although the majors took notice as it grew bigger). It's also a genre that divides audiences; some love it, and some loathe it.

  Opinion by uao — on May 08, 2005

• Sunday Morning Playlist: Paisley Underground

  Bangles; Green On Red; Long Ryders; Rain Parade; Three O'Clock; Game Theory; True West; Dream Syndicate; Thin White Rope; Opal

  Opinion by uao — on May 01, 2005

• Sunday Morning Playlist: Noise Pop

  Jesus And Mary Chain; Velocity Girl; My Bloody Valentine; Yo La Tengo; Pavement; The Flaming Lips; Ride; Mercury Rev; Sparklehorse; Archers Of Loaf.

  Opinion by uao — on Apr 24, 2005

• Sunday Morning Playlist: Grunge

  The emergence of grunge at the start of the 1990's was the culmination of a decade plus of indie music, and also was a major revitalization of rock as a viable commercial proposition. Simply put, grunge represents what in the 70's was unthinkable; a merging of heavy metal and punk.

  Opinion by uao — on Apr 17, 2005

• Sunday Morning Playlist: Detroit Rock

  It was the music that accompanied the rapid and painful decline of Detroit as a sophisticated middle class city, 4th largest in the nation in 1960, to a hollowed out shell of its former self, its population nearly halved. It extended to the industrial city of Flint (profiled by Michael Moore in Roger and Me) and Ann Arbor, a campus with a thriving rock scene supported by students of the University of Michigan. In Detroit, the most famed venue was The Grande Ballroom.

  by uao — on Apr 10, 2005

• Sunday Morning Playlist: Blues Rock

  Rock 'n' roll, of course, owes its very existence to blues; it is a debt that largely went unacknowledged until the mid-1960's when a number of bands on both sides of the Atlantic began emphasizing the blues inherent in rock, creating the genre of blues-rock.

  by uao — on Apr 03, 2005