Yes to For Squirrels.  I think the survivors became "Subrosa", but I never heard more than one song.

Love Screaming Trees, and on a related note, Truly.  Truly had Hiro formerly of Soundrgarden and Mark Pickerel formerly of Screaming Trees.

I didn't really like Veruca's first one, but I thought their second one was pretty good.

A friend of mine had "Numb" and we listened to it alot.  Now, 15 years later, I couldn't tell you at all what it sounded like.

I recall reading that he signed an exclusive deal with Wal Mart some ten years ago, and he released a new 5CD box set for like 20 bucks.

So, I'd never heard of, let alone actually heard, Miranda Lambert.  So I looked her up on the youtubes.

Vaguely. I mostly remember how in the last season all of the long running rivalries were ended when a single episode character walked on and killed a main character for no reason at all.