Blog: Viva La Mainstream!

So this is coming a little later than I was hoping, but nonetheless, here 'tis, a lovely album with which to end a long day. I think Matchbox Twenty's success in the 90s is a fairly unique occurrence. When Yourself or Someone Like You came out it was praised for successfully navigating the waters of a period of mainstream music where alternative music was still in vogue to some degree (though not in the extreme sense of grunge), while at the same time more adult-friendly pop and rock were starting to reclaim the spotlight. Today if [...]