Music Monday Oct 19, 2026

tl;dr: Shuffle lands on Alice in Chains’ MTV Unplugged, a master class in pain bleeding into a microphone. Like it says in the overview, pick one album from your library at random and listen to it front to back. When it’s done, write a little blurb-y thing about it. This week’s album Alice in Chains - Unplugged (MusicBrainz, Discogs) Unplugged is a live album by the American rock band Alice in Chains, released on July 30, 1996, by Columbia Records. It was recorded on April 10, 1996, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Majestic Theatre for the television series MTV Unplugged, in which the musicians perform songs on acoustic instruments. The recording was the band’s first concert since early 1994. In the interim, lead singer Layne Staley battled heroin addiction so severe that the group was unable to perform live, leading them to temporarily disband. Nevertheless, the band persevered and released their self-titled third studio album in late 1995, though they remained unable to promote…