1988 was kind of a transitional year for me. I'd graduated college, losing access to the steady stream of new indie releases I'd had on the college radio station; and I was starting law school, which is not exactly a prime environment for new musical discoveries. Plus it just seemed like a period of malaise in the rock world, somewhere between the jangly guitar rock and post-punk/post-new wave college radio heyday of the '80s and the not-yet-arrived alt.rock '90s.
One bright spot at the time was ...
Published on August 20, 2020 08:45