In the halcyon days of the ‘80s and ’90s, VCRs in small towns across the country hummed quietly in the dead of the night, capturing two straight hours of music videos straight from the fringes of popular culture. Punk, new wave, college rock, indie rock, shoegaze, slowcore, grunge. 120 Minutes was MTV’s means of getting these sub- and cross-genres on the airwaves, and for those of us who were teens and tweens and young adults, it was our introduction to and education about music beyond the limits of the Top 20 Countdown.

120 Minutes — the tribute band — is our means of honoring and reliving those days.