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In 2004, Modest Mouse released Good News for People Who Love Bad News, an album that transformed the band from indie favorites into mainstream stars. While "Float On" became one of the defining songs of the decade, the album itself is far richer, stranger, and more emotionally complex tha…

Phish might be one of the most polarizing bands in modern music — loved by millions, loathed by millions more. In this episode, Seth, Josh, and Ethan defend one of their most formative bands from decades of hate and hilarious online takedowns. From jam band clichés to “bong boy” memes, we unpack …

Thirty years later, Tiny Music… Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop still feels like a left turn nobody saw coming.In this episode of Self-Titled, Seth and Josh revisit Stone Temple Pilots’ boldest and most adventurous album — the record that pushed the band far beyond the “grunge” label and revealed …

Few albums feel as alive, mysterious, and forward-thinking as Marquee Moon by Television. Released in 1977 at the dawn of the CBGB era, the album somehow still sounds futuristic nearly 50 years later. In this episode of Self Titled, Seth and Jordan dive deep into the story behind Marquee Moon — fro…

Viagra Boys made a party album about paranoia. On the surface, Cave World is chaotic, funny, and completely unhinged—shrimp references, absurd lyrics, and grooves that feel like they belong in a sweaty club at 1 a.m. But the deeper you go, the more it starts to feel like something else entirely. Th…

We set out to do something simple: pick our top 5 Wilco songs. It turns out… that’s almost impossible. With over a dozen albums and a catalog that spans everything from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot to Sky Blue Sky to A Ghost Is Born and beyond, narrowing it down to just five songs each turned into a much b…

What do you even say about an album like The Mollusk? On the surface, it’s ridiculous. Sea creatures. Polka dot whales. Songs that sound like children’s music… until they suddenly don’t. But the more time you spend with it, the more it reveals itself as something surprisingly cohesive—and absolute…

In this episode of Self-Titled, we dive into Nirvana’s legendary MTV Unplugged in New York. Recorded at the height of the band’s fame, the performance revealed a different side of Nirvana—stripped down, intimate, and deeply emotional. We talk about the atmosphere of the show, Kurt Cobain’s song cho…

What if one of the most important albums of the 2000s almost didn’t get released at all?In this episode of Self Titled, we dive into Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco—an album born out of creative tension, internal conflict, and a level of experimentation that pushed it beyond what their label was will…