MC Hammer on the “Oprah Winfrey Show” in Chicago on Aug. 14, 1990. Photo by Paul Natkin/Wire Image. The original plan, before I actually went to Outside Lands last weekend, was to use this weekend’s column to highlight some bands I unexpectedly enjoyed. You know, acts I wasn’t especially…

The Nightmare Before Christmas. Welcome to Week 3 of Halloween Month. As I’m writing this well in advance, something I desperately try to avoid given the breakneck 2020 news cycle, I don’t know what horrors I should probably be addressing. I’m assuming someone important is dead, for example, and…

  So dreamy Double-length edition again! I try to keep to my rules, but it was looking I’d have to cut either Sex Packets or Flood, and I’m just not going to do that. Turns out way too many of my favorite albums came out in 1990 to cut anything. And,…