Inside the Milky Way - A Look at Early Alternative Music

They developed a distinctive ethereal and psychedelic indie rock sound with shimmering guitars and melancholic melodies.

This episode explores the origins of industrial music, focusing on Throbbing Gristle's formation in 1975 and their debut album that coined the genre's slogan.

This episode explores the synth-pop band Visage, formed in 1978 London, highlighting their experimental music that linked early electronic sounds to the new romantic movement.

Johnny Marr and Morrissey built The Smiths around ordinary names, jangly guitars, and songs about loneliness.

Gene Loves Jezebel traces Michael and Jay Aston's move from 1983's gothic Promise to 1985's UK indie-chart number-one Immigrant.

Sonic Youth formed in New York City in 1981 by combining no-wave experimentation, hardcore punk energy, alternate tunings, and guitar feedback.

Nick Cave wrote Kylie Minogue a killer-and-victim duet after six years of trying to find her the right song.

Jeff's episode of Inside the Milky Way covers only The Cure's Disintegration, released May 2nd, 1989 on Fiction Records, which he ranks in his top five albums of all time.

Inside the Milky Way traces The Cramps from their 1972 Sacramento meeting to Lux Interior's 2009 death after an aortic dissection.

Happy Mondays formed in Salford in 1980 and became central to Manchester's Madchester rave scene through Factory Records.