Sunday Music: "Coast" By Snocaps + Sonic Hydras
November 9, 2025·0 comments·zg
In the 90s, when you wanted to be alternative, but everything started being labeled alternative, any internal sense of rebellion got inherently confusing. So, somewhere within rebelling against alt-rock and punk bands, I found myself deeper into a world of backpack rap and - the purpose of this rant - alt-country,
I’d already embraced my love for Johnny Cash thanks to a “Boy Named Sue” 45 my mom had that eventually led me to the rest of his catalog and more, which I was also sore about when the movie got so big, but that's another post
But in the 90s there were all sorts of cool bands like Whiskeytown, the Old 97s, and of course, my personal favorite: Uncle Tupelo. I was mostly discovering these in the mid to late 90s through record store hunting, for the record, which meant I found them in the actual order they happened, even if I was catching up a few years later.
Uncle Tupelo were sad and exciting and grungy and sloppy and everything that felt great except for when you’d play it for friends or a girl or anybody, really, and they’d want to listen to Blink 182 or Pearl Jam or that Biggie song.
So I was pretty comfortable with it being a weird side interest thing I mostly kept to myself.
Uncle Tupelo split in the mid-90s and something even cooler happened.
Cool in the way stuff happened before the internet was everywhere.
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