Kids in the Hall on the death of grunge

I'm going to see the acclaimed Canadian sketch comedy group Kids in the Hall tonight (go here for tour dates). It's their first tour since 2002, and is supposedly all-new material in preparation for a new TV show or movie. I remember setting my VCR in junior high to tape CBS at 3 a.m. Sunday nights, which is when KitH aired in my hometown (obviously, it was a huge hit program on the CBC in Canada).

In celebration, thought I'd take this look back at what happens when grunge meets antidepressants:


From Kids in the Hall:Brain Candy, which came and went fairly quickly in the spring of 1996. Matador did the soundtrack, which is heavy on mid-'90s indie-pop (Liz Phair, Pizzicato Five, Stereolab, Yo La Tengo, etc.).