🎸Gene & Ashlees Alt2k Wednesday Tunes For Wednesday May 28th! 🎹 The Kills & Silversun Pickups!

On this Alt2k or Y2K Wednesday me & Ashlee pick tunes from one of our favorite 2000’s Alternative rock bands. We each pick two songs from two different albums from one band each and also pick a third bonus jam from later in the twenty teens.

Gene goes with the Kills and also three songs from three separate records. For DailyJam it’s the song Black Balloon from the 2008 album “Midnight Boom”. Followed by BonusJam the song Future Starts Slow from the follow up record 2011’s “Blood Pressures“. Finally third song Doing It To Death from the 2015 album “ Ash & Ice”.

Ashlee goes with the band Silversun Pickups going with one song from the 2006 first record “ Carnavas” picking the song Lazy Eye. Second up it’s the song Panic Switch off the 2009 follow-up album “ Swoon”. Followed by a third bonus tune from the 2015 album “ Better Nature” the song Circadian Rhythm (Last Dance).

Thanks for swinging by! Cheers! 🎸

The Kills and Silversun Pickups were never mainstream darlings in the way Arctic Monkeys or The Strokes were, but maybe that’s why their music still feels like a secret handshake. They were part of a larger wave of alt and indie acts that shaped the underground of the 2000s similar to Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio but personally I feel like they had more in common with the White Stripes.

The Kills reminded us that minimal could be magnetic. Silversun Pickups reminded us that maximal could still be intimate. Together, they captured the strange, beautiful tension of the decade with gritty and grand, detached yet deeply emotional.

So whether you’re queuing them up on vinyl, digging through old iPods, or catching a reunion tour, these bands are more than nostalgia. They’re proof that the 2000s alternative scene didn’t just make noise, it made magic.