Results for Kurt CobainThe life of Kurt Cobain was short-lived, intense, wonderful, absurd, distraught, haunting and haunted. Starting his career as a member of Fecal Matter and forming the Stiff Woodies with his bassist buddy Kurt Novoselic, Cobain's band became Skid Row and then Nirvana by the late 1980s in an interesting and unlikely succession of names. Cobain's demons and affections, including wife Courtney Love and daughter Frances Bean, are well known, and his death is still pondered by the faithful. But it was Kurt's ultimate impact on modern rock music that tapped the pool of alienation with a ferocity that resulted in triple platinum sell-outs that secured his place in history. It's been over a decade since his death by alleged suicide, and his impact still reverberates across the airwaves.“more
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by Michael Harkin•May 14, 2009•
When you show up to a gig on a reunion tour, you’re potentially risking how you feel about the band in question. Any trepidation or hesitance among those who attended the Vaselines’ first-ever San Francisco show on Monday night was quickly wiped away, however, by how incredible the Edinburgh, Scotland group sounded right off the bat
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by Mark Paytress•January 7, 2009•
Originally published in The Guardian, 30 October 2002
It is five years since Jeff Buckley took his final, mid-evening stroll into the Wolf River, a sleepy tourist spot on the outskirts of Memphis, Tennessee. Fully clothed and still wearing his combat boots, he splashed around happily, singing out lines from Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love.” The idyll was cruelly curtailed when a menacing undertow from a passing tugboat pulled Buckley under.
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by The C! Team•December 24, 2008•
As the winter months keep us cooped up indoors avoiding the cold night air, it is now that we forgo exercise and many of those other extracurricular activities we generally like to partake of when it's actually nice and light outside. It's the perfect time to slow down the ridiculous pace of modern life to hunker down under a blanket, maybe even next to a fireplace, and read a few books.
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by C! Team•November 19, 2008•
Sometimes life calls for seeing some deep, introspective music, and sometimes it calls for some surreal English wit, and other times it just calls for the tank top-clad glory of Danzig.
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by Paul Myers•October 22, 2008•
Not only has Sloan remained intact during the intervening years, they appear to have retained a healthy sense of arrested adolescence that belies their increasingly philosophical worldview as they’ve matured and started to raise families of their own. On their newest album, Parallel Play, their ninth, the four singular songwriters of Sloan frequently ruminate about what it means to hold on to one’s youthful
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9/18/2007
You just threatened to kill me. Hey moderator, this Led head just threatened to kill me. I go away for a few months and...
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9/17/2007
Thems are fightin words indeed. You wanna fight about it? Go on- I dare ya. Nobody says that about the greatest band of...
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