I know, it's been a while... haven't done this podcast since mid-December 2017! So this is the official first podcast of 2018, and for once I've decided to keep the running time in the half hour range... 34 minutes to be exact. I also had a bit of an epiphany over my short hiatus, having moved residences and in the process rediscovered albums from bands that are no more or never had a big profile to begin with... I've decided to devote the first podcasts of this new year to the bands I love that sort of got lost between the cracks of pop cultural awareness. The Sugarplastic  was (and still is, apparently) an alt-pop band from L.A. that I used to watch play live at various hip bars and clubs in the mid-90s. I still listen to their Geffen debut,  Bang, The Earth Is Round , religiously and now that I am a Hoosier and no longer an Angeleno I feel a certain ( ugh ) nostalgia for those days of smoking in venues and braving terrible hipster rock openers just to hear a