Boss Hog - I Dig You

Name: Boss Hog - I Dig You
Uploaded: 1996-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Description: Released in March 1996 as a single from Boss Hog's 1995 Geffen debut, 'I Dig You' arrived during the peak of the post-Nirvana major-label underground signing era, when raw New York punk-blues acts briefly found mainstream distribution. Boss Hog, formed in 1989 at CBGB's by the husband-and-wife duo of Jon Spencer and Cristina Martinez,…

1996 · Mid-90s Alternative/Punk Blues Mainstream Crossover (1995–1996) · music video

1996Mid-90s Alternative/Punk Blues Mainstream Crossover (1995–1996)Mid-90s New York punk blues underground / post-Nirvana major-label alternative rock

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Released in March 1996 as a single from Boss Hog's 1995 Geffen debut, 'I Dig You' arrived during the peak of the post-Nirvana major-label underground signing era, when raw New York punk-blues acts briefly found mainstream distribution. Boss Hog, formed in 1989 at CBGB's by the husband-and-wife duo of Jon Spencer and Cristina Martinez, represented a convergence of Pussy Galore's confrontational noise-punk legacy…

Why it matters

A defining artifact of 1990s punk blues and the New York underground's brief major-label moment. Boss Hog's synthesis of garage punk, noise rock, and raw blues on 'I Dig You' — produced by Steve Fisk at NYC's Sear Sound — exemplifies the post-Pussy Galore lineage and directly prefigures the garage…

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