Between the 1960s and 1990s, literally tens of thousands of bands submitted their music to record labels around the world with the hopes of "getting signed" -- and almost all of them got turned down. But the labels didn't always get it right, and there's an unbelievable archive of amazing, unheard music out there -- and incredible stories about how it got made. We play that music, and get the bands to tell their stories.
Our latest episode of Shoulda Beens takes us to Long Beach, a tiny seaside hamlet on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. In 1981, three teenage boys formed a band called Next Window, and for the next few years wrote and recorded some exciting, on-trend, and vital “new wave” music — the kind of thing you would expect to hear in places like New York, London, or Los Angeles. But Next Window’s pop/punk music came out of Long Beach, a town o...
In the post-punk, college rock world of the 1980s, the American South seemed poised to rise again, thanks to the wide-eyed, DIY enthusiasm of bands and artists like REM, the dBs, Mitch Easter and Let’s Active. These groups looked beyond the blues-fueled cliches of “southern rock” and created a brainy new kind of guitar pop that owed more to Television, Devo, and XTC than it did Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers.
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