1990-1999

All Let It Roll episodes covering the music of the 1990s.

Let It Roll Originals

• Living Colour Led the Early ‘90s Alt Metal Charge

• George Michael's Brilliant 80's Run Ended With His 90's Rebellion Against His Record Label

• DJ Screw Slowed Hip-Hop Down and Built a Home Grown Empire in Houston

• J Dilla Transformed Time for Q-Tip, the Pharcyde, D'Angelo, Erykah Badu & Common

• The Wu Tang Clan's Brilliant Business Plan Was Great While It Lasted

• Guns N’ Roses Reigned Over the Late 80's and Fell Hard in the 1990s

• Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor Took Transgression to a Mass Audience

• New Edition & New Kids On The Block Perfected It, *NSYNC & Backstreet Boys Capitalized On It: The Boy Band Formula

• Soundgarden Was The Alpha And Omega Of Grunge

• Grunge Exploded Out of Seattle and Fell Back to Earth

• Time Warner Can't Handle The Ice-T Cop Killer Backlash

• The Death of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain Changed The Music Biz

We Dig VH1’s Metal Evolution

• Metal Evolution Led to Extremes: Grindcore, Death & Black Metal

• Shock Rock From Screamin' Jay Hawkins to Alice Cooper to Marilyn Manson

• Korn and Limp Bizkit Led the Nu Metal Charge, Linkin Park Followed Up

• Grunge Bands Like Nirvana and Pearl Jam Kicked Glam Off MTV

• Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer and Megadeth Brought Thrash to a Global Audience

TechnoRoll

• TechnoRoll 3.15: The DEA Cracks Down on Disco Donnie and the NOLA Rave Scene

• TechnoRoll 3.13: Moby and Fatboy Slim Rocked Woodstock '99

• TechnoRoll 3.12: Underworld and Chemical Brothers Headlined Organic ‘96

• TechnoRoll 3.11: Daft Punk Make Their US Debut at Even Furthur in Wisconsin

• TechnoRoll 3.10: Richie Hawtin's Rise and Fall as a US Rave Promoter

• TechnoRoll 3.9: Moby, The Prodigy, Aphex Twin, Orbital and Cybersonik Led Big Tours of the US in 1993

• TechnoRoll 3.8: Rave Crested and Crashed In Southern California in the Early ‘90s

• TechnoRoll 3.7: Rave Rose and Fell on the East Coast in 1992

• TechnoRoll 3.6: Tribal House Emerged on the Circuit in the 1990s and Went to the Top of the Pop Charts

• TechnoRoll 3.5: The 2nd Wave of Detroit Techno Soundtracked Midwest Raves in the Early ‘90s

• TechnoRoll 3.4: Rave and Early Internet Culture Rose Together in the Bay Area in the Early ‘90s

• TechnoRoll 3.3: Madchester and Hip-House Don't Quite Make It In the States, But Rave Took Root in Southern California

• TechnoRoll 2.20 Speed Garage and 2Step Evolved Out of the UK Garage Scene

• TechnoRoll 2.19 Paul Van Dyk, DJ Tiesto, & Ferry Corsten Take Trance to the Top as the PsyTrance Underground Goes Global

• TechnoRoll 2.18: Leftfield, Moby, Green Velvet and Underworld Pushed the Boundaries of House in the 1990s

• TechnoRoll 2.17: The Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers and Fatboy Slim Brought Big Beat to Massive International Success

• TechnoRoll 2.16: DJ Spooky, Atari Teenage Riot, Mouse on Mars and Drill & Bass Producers Got Arty Post-Rave

• TechnoRoll 2.15: Drum & Bass Fought to Differentiate Itself

• TechnoRoll 2.14: Tricky, Portishead and Massive Attack Took Trip-Hop Straight Out of Bristol

• TechnoRoll 2.13: American Rave Stayed Underground In the 90s

• TechnoRoll 2.12: Dutch Dance Gets Intense With Gabba and Happy Hardcore Shelters Some of the Rave Spirit in the UK

• TechnoRoll 2.11: Jungle Brought Hip-Hop & Reggae Elements Back Into UK’s Rave Scene

• TechnoRoll 2.10: UK Pirate Radio Brought the Underground to the Airwave

• TechnoRoll 2.9: Underground Resistance, Carl Craig & Richie Hawtin Led Detroit’s Second Wave of Techno

• TechnoRoll 2.8: Goldie's Rufige Cru, Doc Scott and DJ Hype Led Breakbeat Hardcore’s Turn to Darkcore

• TechnoRoll 2.7: Aphex Twin, The Orb, The Black Dog and Sven Vath Create Intelligent Techno, Ambient and Trance

• TechnoRoll 2.6: Spiral Tribe Went Big at Castlemorton and Triggered a Backlash

• TechnoRoll 2.5: Rave Goes Hardcore in Europe and the UK

• TechnoRoll 2.4: The Stone Roses & Happy Mondays Led a Madchester Scene That Tried to Absorb Rave Into Rock

• Technoroll 22: Interview with Bill Brewster & Frank Broughton, Historians of the DJ

• Technoroll 20: Superstars Like DJ Tiesto and Fatboy Slim Change the Game

• Technoroll 19: UK and US Authorities Crack Down on Raves in the 1990s

• Technoroll 18: The KLF Trolled the Pop World and Brought Ambient to a Mass Audience

• Technoroll 17: After Acid House Came Hardcore, Jungle, Drum & Bass, and UK Garage

• Technoroll 16: The Acid House Revolution Shakes the UK to its Foundations

• Technoroll 14: Trance Connected Berlin with Goa, India

We Dig Rock Docs

• Grunge Bands Like Nirvana Drew All Eyes to the Seattle Music Scene

• The Time Nirvana Opened For Sonic Youth and Made a Movie About It

We Dig Hip-Hop Evolution: The Foundation

• How The Neptunes, Timbaland & Missy Elliott, J Dilla and Kanye West Became Hip-Hop’s Super-Producers

• Houston's DJ Screw, Memphis' Three 6 Mafia and Atlanta's Lil Jon Innovated New Directions in Hip-Hop

• Bounce, Master P & No Limit and Cash Money's Mannie Fresh & Juvenile Brought New Orleans Hip-Hop to the Fore

• Outkast & Goodie Mob Took the Dirty South National After TLC and Kriss Kross Laid the Foundation in Atlanta

• Eminem, Mos Def & Black Star Emerge from Hip-Hop's Cypher & Battle Rap Cultures

• After The Notorious B.I.G.'s Reign, Puff Daddy, Lil' Kim and Jay-Z Step Up In The ‘Jiggy Era’

• 2Pac & Suge Knight Ignite the West Coast-East Coast Feud Again

• Wu-Tang Clan, Nas and Notorious B.I.G. Brought NYC Back

• Tribe Called Quest & De La Soul Led the Native Tongues

• Too $hort, MC Hammer, E-40, Digital Underground & 2Pac Brought the Bay

• The 2 Live Crew, Geto Boys and UGK Come Out of the South

CountryRoll

• CountryRoll 8: George Strait, Reba McEntire, & Dwight Yoakum Re-Center Country in the ‘80s, Garth Brooks Blows the Doors Off in the ‘90s