On Saturday, members of Material Issue celebrate the 20th anniversary of their hit debut album, International Pop Overthrow. It was reissued this month, with nine bonus tracks, including cover songs ...

With feet in both the power pop and punk fields, Material Issue blasted out of Chicago 20 years ago with their impressive debut album, International Pop Overthrow. Long out of print, Hip-O-Select has ...

Like Seattle’s the Posies, Chicago’s Material Issue were a sharp power-pop band overshadowed by grunge-era heaviosity. Still, with frontman Jim Ellison’s impassioned songs and simpatico production ...

The Chicago power-pop band Material Issue never sold records the way it should have, but the trio's three previously available albums—International Pop Overthrow, Destination Universe, and Freak City ...

The Killers have paid homage to Chicago with a cover of Material Issue’s ‘Very First Lie’ at Lollapalooza 2024. Brandon Flowers and co took over the T-Mobile stage last night (August 3) serving as the ...

Introduced in March of 2017, Google’s Issue Tracker (known semi-internally as Buganizer) is a tool for reporting bugs in various Google products. This week it received a Material Theme revamp that ...

The Killers headlined the third day of Lollapalooza on Saturday. While in Chicago, Vegas' finest paid tribute to a Chicago band, Material Issue, covering their 1991 song "Very First Lie." The '90s ...