Articles tagged "courtney love"

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Grunge by Michael Lavine and Thurston Moore

by Brendan Fitzgerald

[26.Oct.09] :. Sub Pop's first lens on the grunge scene offers an early look at the signs of flannel to come, and the distinctive regional imprints on the sounds that followed punk.

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Courtney Love, Ex-Nirvana Members Blast ‘Guitar Hero 5’ Cobain Avatar

by AJ Ramirez

[17.Sep.09] :. The latest entry in the popular Guitar Hero video game series has now hit store shelves, but there has been some public discontent over the game’s playable avatar of late Nirvana...

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The problem with reality

by Brian Crecente [Kotaku.com (MCT)]

[16.Sep.09] :. Video games are meant to be flights of fancy but, as with television, reality has become an increasingly popular concept to tap into. Nowhere is this more evident than in music-themed video games....

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Hole: Pretty on the Inside

by Omar Kholeif

[2.Sep.09] :. Let us put aside for a moment, the media hoopla that has surrounded Courtney Love over the last 15 or so years, hard as that may be, and let us consider some of the bold musical splendour on display...

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Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 5: Toy Story 2 to Titus (November - December 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[27.Mar.09] :. On this final day of PopMatters' 1999 overview, awards season hype gives way to pure acting prowess and definitive directorial flair.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

 

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Nirvana manager’s book tells of life in the rock ‘n’ roll trenches

by Patrick Macdonald [The Seattle Times (MCT)]

[8.Oct.08] :. SEATTLE—Danny Goldberg was the manager of Nirvana. In his long career in the music business, he also covered Woodstock for Billboard; did PR for Led Zeppelin; managed Bonnie Raitt and Warren...

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Lady Lazarus by Andrew Foster Altschul

by Patrick Schabe

[19.Jun.08] :. Lady Lazarus is a naked lunch. The circuit is closed. The simulacrum ironically, paradoxically, signifies everything.

 

Dirty Blonde by Courtney Love

by Mary McCoy

[27.Nov.06] :. As with a tortured confessional poet, it's easier to take Love's lyrics and writings at their autobiographical face value than to grant there may be something more complicated at work.

 

Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson Uncensored!

by Roger Holland

[20.Feb.06] :. About as funny as anything involving Andy Dick has ever been: this sums it up for this whole roast experience, really.

 

Trapped (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Jan.03] :. Scary as this sounds -- Courtney Love channeling Claire Standish or Andie Walsh -- it might explain a few things about what was going on in Trapped.

 

Trapped (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Sep.02] :. Scary as this sounds -- Courtney Love channeling Claire Standish or Andie Walsh -- it might explain a few things about what was going on in Trapped.

 

Man on the Moon (1999)

by Mike Ward

Far be it from me to accuse Hollywood of wishful thinking. But as the closing credits for Man on the Moon roll under Andy Kaufman's (Jim Carrey's) timid gaze, it's easy to think the film has been seduced by its own notion that a life of sufficient celebrity can offer freedom from the mortality that afflicts ordinary souls.