college rock
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North Carolina college-rock mainstays The Connells always felt a bit out of step with contemporary music, but this greatest hits collection removes the band from the context of the era and shows that though they were a bit of a sleeper group in their heyday, their music holds up quite well three decades later. Read more
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North Carolina college-rock mainstays The Connells always felt a bit out of step with contemporary music, but this greatest hits collection removes the band from the context of the era and shows that though they were a bit of a sleeper group in their heyday, their music holds up quite well three decades later. Read more
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The Rave-Ups was an LA-based College Rock band who had a roots-rock heart and a flirtation with mainstream success via an appearance in John Hughes’ classic Sixteen Candles. Their debut album is fine, albeit one with a slight identity problem. Read more
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The Rave-Ups was an LA-based College Rock band who had a roots-rock heart and a flirtation with mainstream success via an appearance in John Hughes’ classic Sixteen Candles. Their debut album is fine, albeit one with a slight identity problem. Read more
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The college-rock explosion of the mid-to-late 1980s was a fertile, creative time, even though the genre gets written out of the rock history books, thanks to the burgeoning “alternative rock” scene and subsequent “grunge explosion.” College-rock bands were melodic, a little rock, and not particularly ashamed of showing some ambition–after all, R.E.M. and 10,000 Maniacs obtained success while still Read more
The Recoup 