License To Drive: New Order’s Get Ready
In the late 90’s and early 2000’s, New Order was hibernating. No albums, no touring, nothing. Their hugely successful 1993 release Republic, was a [...]
In the late 90’s and early 2000’s, New Order was hibernating. No albums, no touring, nothing. Their hugely successful 1993 release Republic, was a [...]
Around the turn of the century, Mercury Rev had a decision to make. They needed to decide how they would follow up their critically [...]
Back in 2001, the world was a strange place. The internet was still young, and music was adjusting to the changing landscape of media. [...]
The spaced-out and psychedelic-rock of Spiritualized, is an impressive and progressive sound that challenges listeners to reach for new heights of enlightenment. Just ask [...]
In 2001, Drive-By Truckers did something very uncommon. They crowd sourced an album. And not just any album mind you, but a double album. [...]
This week we take a test drive of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco’s third album, released in September of 2001. This has proven to be [...]
16 years is a long time. But it can also feel like the blink of an eye. It seems like just yesterday that Ryan [...]
Amnesiac is likely not your favorite Radiohead album. The band had just released Kid A in October of 2000 and people were still digesting [...]
With their debut full length album, 2001’s Simple Things, British downtempo production duo Zero 7 drew immediate comparisons to French duo Air. These comparisons weren’t [...]
By the fall of 2001, Bob Dylan had already made a comeback. A couple of times. Most recently with 1997’s Grammy winning album, Time [...]
This week we take a test drive of “Origin of Symmetry”. Muse’s sophomore album was released in their native land of England in July [...]
This week we take a test drive and listen to Bjork’s fourth solo release, “Vespertine”. The mostly experimental and very personal album, did not [...]
This week, we take a look at and listen to Is This It, The Strokes’ debut album. Released in July of 2001. It is [...]
Let's take this one for a test drive! The self-titled debut album by the Gorillaz celebrates its sweet 16 this year, and upon reflection, [...]
With License To Drive, we take a look at an album that is celebrating its Sweet 16th Birthday and is finally able to take [...]
License To Drive is a new weekly segment at WTMD where we examine an album that is celebrating it's Sweet 16th birthday, and take [...]