Uh Huh Her's Camila Grey discusses revival of 90s, 2000s music ahead of album re-release; Antietam members talk collecting vinyl in the streaming age
This is Punk Rock Bach for July 9, 2026.
Way back when I was a teen in Birmingham, Ala., I would listen to Oldies 106.9. It was a typical “oldies” station — playing songs from the likes of Elvis Presley, Dusty Springfield and Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons.
The songs were rooted in a moment of time I couldn’t fathom as a 14-year-old kid. And I remember my peers pointing out that bands like Nirvana will be “oldies” when we became adults.
Well, that time is now — but music from the ‘90s and 2000s feels so much more relevant and contemporary than “Louie Louie” did circa 1994.
This week, I spoke with Camila Grey of Uh Huh Her a bit about why music from 20 and 30 years ago still seems popular. The chat came ahead of the release of Uh Huh Her’s “Nocturnes: Redux” album.
Plus, check out our Q&A with Antietam’s Tara Key and Josh Madell on the albums and musicians they’re listening to ahead of their latest record’s release.
Onward!
Uh Huh Her infuses ‘Nocturnes’ with fresh tracks in redux release
Camila Grey found herself in a “70s kind of vortex” around 15 years ago when she and Leisha Hailey were creating songs for the album “Nocturnes.”
“I was listening to a lot of Led Zeppelin and Can, and gosh, like Stone Roses, all kinds of records like that,” she said. “Because I thought that 70s music would have some sort of resurgence. I don’t know; I was stuck in this moment.”
Uh Huh Her — the musical duo of Grey and Hailey — is revisiting that album after an extended hiatus. The band is set to release “Nocturnes: Redux,” an edition of the album with new songs and different versions of older tracks via the Kill Rock Stars label on Aug. 7.
Grey said her relationship with the album’s music now is different than when the band first created it.
“It does feel old, but it still feels relevant sonically,” she said. “I think a lot of resurgences are happening with music, especially 90s music. Grunge is kind of coming back. It weirdly still has legs in this day and age.”
The album’s re-release is more than nostalgic and unexpected for Grey.
“I thought that was […] finito,” following the band going in different directions, she said. “So this is kind of serendipitous in a weird way.”
Changes to the original
Compared to the album’s original release, fans will notice some differences on “Nocturnes: Redux.”
The album will include new songs such as the track “Shook,” which Grey and Hailey released last month.
Some fans who buy the physical version may notice an omission compared to the album’s original release.
“We actually got rid of one [track on the vinyl version],” Grey said. “We ditched one song, so that we could make room on the LP and the vinyl for the two new ones, which is not very customary.”
Grey said the song they jettisoned is “Darkness Is.” She said it didn’t fit with the reworked album. While they cut the song for the vinyl release, the song will still be included on the album’s digital version.
“I had written that one way back in the day, back when Bush was president or something,” she said. “That was an old, old song.”
Speaking more on the resurgence of older music in 2026, Grey believes people “don’t want to hear canned shit anymore.”
“I think people miss a little messiness, a little edge, they miss mystery, they miss, you know, playing instruments,” she said.
She continued, “I think that era of music [the ‘90s and 2000s] was messy, it was real, it was a feeling that I don’t think people have when you listen to just canned pop music. And I think the resurgence will be huge, because I think people miss that soul of music, where people actually really dig in and play stuff. Like [the band] Idles is a perfect example of that, right now. You know, people that really kind of dig in and play, and they show every emotion.”
Touring with Morrissey
Since Uh Huh Her initially disbanded, Grey has continued performing and creating. She previously worked with Adam Lambert, and currently is on tour with former The Smiths frontman and British musician Morrissey.
“It’s one of those things where I really feel like he’s treated me like a real band member,” she said of her work with Morrissey. “It’s not like a hired gun thing anymore. I’ve been with him like almost four years now, and I’m writing records with him and stuff like that.”
She performed on Morrissey’s 2026 album “Make-up is a Lie,” and co-wrote several of the songs — including the title track.
“I never thought I’d be writing songs with that man when I was 16, listening to The Smiths,” Grey said. “So it’s a really incredible testament to who he is as a person who’s, you know, so mysterious and misunderstood. But he’s one of the kindest people I’ve ever met.”
Uh Huh Her’s “Nocturnes: Redux” is set to release on Aug. 7 via the Kill Rock Stars label. The album is available for pre-order and pre-save on a variety of platforms. You can listen to the single “Shook” on YouTube.
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Antietam’s Josh Madell and Tara Key discuss listening habits ahead of 14th studio album’s release
Antietam has been rocking audiences since the ‘80s, and they’re continuing that tradition in just a few months.
The band — a trio which is now composed of guitarist and singer Tara Key, drummer Josh Madell and bassist Tim Harris — is set to release its 14th studio album “The Counting Game” on Sept. 4 via the Dromedary Records label.
The record includes the recently released single “Way Too Well,” as well as the tracks “Spy Vs. Spy,” “Winter Watch” and “Coco Bella,” among others.
Punk Rock Bach recently caught up with Madell and Key to ask what music they’re listening to and how they’re listening.
Editor’s note: Q&A has been lightly edited for style, syntax and typos.
Punk Rock Bach: How do you prefer to listen to music?
Tara Key: I’m not sure prefer would be the best way to describe it, but streaming would be most accurate at this point in time.
Living in a small space, I’d say we have defaulted to having a lion’s share of available space devoted to amps, guitars and recording gear versus the previous bulk of our shared vinyl. And indeed when we first edited our holdings upon moving to New York, we found we had mirrored each other for a sizable percentage of our collection (Bowie, Raiders, Stones, Who, other classic touchstones etc.), but neither of us wanted to relinquish the duplicate objects, each loaded with memories of where it was purchased, what party it was played at and how many joints were rolled upon its gatefold sleeve. However, uniquely, I brought the bootlegs and Tim [Harris] brought the Todd Rundgren and Lou Reed!
I probably do hear a ton more new music than I would without streaming and I try to find ways to support artists I discover that I like. Karmically I would hope for the same in return.
In addition, WFMU-FM 91.1 is another invaluable conduit for discovery. All hail smart radio and the now rarer bird: the soul-sustaining thrill of shared experience in a time of niche and private consumption.
Josh Madell: I owned a record store for twenty years and I love and collect vinyl, but as with most of humanity, I find streaming so convenient. So it’s LPs for relaxed listening on my down time, but streaming over a Sonos system most of the time.
PRB: What are you listening to now?
Key: I am inexplicably late to catch the Courtney Barnett train, but now that I know, I am a huge fan—I discovered her through my friends’ social media posts (the new town square). I am also into the recent Peter Hook live remake of “Get Ready” by New Order —a record that is one of my all-time favorites by a band that, previous to the release of that album in 2001, I did not really listen to that much. The whole war between Hook and Sumner and who “owns” a collaboration is something I am fascinated with.
I would say, since at heart I am a tireless researcher and factoid nerd, one of the ways I often hear music is by playing a link game. Case in point: yesterday I was in a studio session and I made a reference to how something sounded a little too “Seasons in the Sun.” My engineer asked if I knew that that was a reinterpretation of the Jacques Brel song “Le Moribond.” Which led to a discovery that Rod McKuen had done the rewrite. Which led to a further investigation of Terry Jacks and the Poppy Family and “Which Way You Goin’ Billy?” —did you know they had a full-time tabla player BTW? Let’s not even get started on Bowie and Brel…point being I often follow a sonic bread crumb trail and end up way far afield from where I expected to be.
Madell: A few new things I have been enjoying lately are the latest albums from Chanel Beads, Sharp Pins, and Baby Rose.
PRB: What is your favorite music listening memory
Key: It may be trite to share such an over-shared moment in time for punk rockers of a certain age but it is still, absolutely, the night, after my parents went to bed and I was up working on some paintings in my room, that I lit a joint of better than the usual dirt-weed weed and tuned into Louisville’s WLRS-FM 102.3 (soon to become the “enemy” when my punk rock band started). They had a “New Music” program on Fridays around midnight, if I remember correctly.
The sounds that came on blew my already somewhat untethered head off. It was Patti Smith, it was Horses, and with that infusion of molecular change, nothing in my life was the same afterwards.
Madell: I’ll say in my childhood room as a young teen listening to the New Afternoon Show on WNYU and trying to write down what every cool song was as the DJ back-announced.
PRB: What do you listen on?
Key: Mostly I listen on one of two sets of speakers connected to my desktop (one for casual listening, one for referencing recording work). But very often it is the modern day equivalent of my once omnipresent transistor radio—my iPhone, yes, with bass guitar taking the hit (sorry, Tim!).
Like many other 65+ year-olds, I was baptized into being a future music-maker by the transistor, oft hidden under my pillow late at night receiving missives from Detroit, New Orleans, Chicago, Atlanta via the magic of clear channel 50,000- watt stations—I always had my transistor at my side. I seriously carried it around like a favorite stuffed animal. The iPhone serves me in a similar way now.
Madell: This is really the same as the first question, no? The most fun and engaging way to listen is on a turntable! Or better yet, in the club with a live band!
Antietam’s latest studio album “The Counting Game” is set to release Sept. 4 via Dromedary Records. It is available for pre-order on Dromedary’s Bandcamp page.
What I’m listening to…
While I’m not a member of the KISS Army, I like KISS’s early stuff from the 70s and early 80s. Back when they were a New York band with all four original members: Paul, Gene, Ace and Peter (no offense to the musicians who later joined the band).
I’ve highlighted how much I enjoy the band’s “ALIVE!” album before, but I realized I had none of the band’s studio albums in my library. That changed this week when I bought “Destroyer” via iTunes.
As most music lovers will attest, this is a great album. It includes “Detroit Rock City,” “Shout It Out Loud” and “Flaming Youth,” among other tracks.
Personally, I’m not a big fan of the song “Great Expectations,” but otherwise this is great stuff! I recommend it if you want to scratch that 1970s rock itch.
As always, thanks for reading! We’ll be back next Thursday with an interview with Daisy the Great’s Kelley Nicole Dugan and Mina Walker. Until then!
Camila Grey has written the music for three of my favorite songs - You’re Right it’s Time, Make-Up is a Lie, and Kerching Kerching. They are so beautiful and original. I can’t wait to get the Uh Huh Her album in August!