A producer dead at 41. A singer's two-year addiction spiral. A label bankruptcy. An engineer's breakdown. A photographer's tragic accident. Five people. One album. Was it a curse — or something the music industry did deliberately?

In Episode 4 of More Music Por Favor Presents, host Marcus Reed investigates one of alternative rock's darkest untold stories: an uncompromising 1990s record so brutally honest that the industry machine may have turned against everyone who made it.

Drawing on parallels with documented cases involving Hüsker Dü, Jawbreaker, and Babes in Toyland, Marcus traces how a single phone call — a quiet reclassification from "priority push" to "soft support" — cascaded into five separate life collapses. True crime meets music history in a story that's never been fully told.

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