Friday, September 30 2011
Nirvana: Nevermind (Deluxe Edition)
Over time, it has become clear that this is an album about the feelings of one man (not a generation), and his struggle between rock purity and pop sensibility is what makes this classic.
Tuesday, September 27 2011
Smells Like MTV: Music Video and the Rise of Grunge
MTV’s central role in delivering grunge to a national audience in the early 1990s demonstrated the network’s power as a creator and definer of culture, and the reaction of many of grunge’s iconic figures against the video medium revealed the gulf between principle and reality.
Thursday, August 25 2011
Rock ‘n’ Roll 101: How to Handle a Dead Young Rock Star
In the wake of Amy Winehouse's death, record industry types and music journalists dusted off their Rock 'n' Roll 101 handbooks, revisiting the chapter on how to report on a Young Rock Star's death. Has it been handled any differently this time around than in the past?
Monday, August 22 2011
Evolution Calling: Tool - “Eulogy” and “H”
In the latest Between the Grooves series, Sean McCarthy undertakes a track-by-track examination of the concept of change in Tool's 1996 classic, Ænima, this time looking at "Eulogy" and "H".
Thursday, July 14 2011
Why Shouldn’t Miley Cyrus Smell Like Kurt Cobain?
Didn't Kurt Cobain perform as a teenage girl? If Nirvana did inspire an entire generation, then we really should be receiving Miley Cyrus' cover performances in a much more educated fashion than we are.
Tuesday, May 18 2010
Afraid of a Ghost: Inside the ‘All Apologies’ Meme
Why did the Robert-Pattinson-as-Kurt-Cobain myth take in more people than any April Fool? Because it seemed too uncomfortably true to be bullshit.
Monday, November 2 2009
Verse-Chorus-Verse: An Interview with Jad Fair
Artist/producer PC Muñoz mines for gems and grills the greats.
Monday, October 26 2009
Grunge by Michael Lavine and Thurston Moore
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.
