Articles tagged "kurt cobain"

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Verse-Chorus-Verse: An Interview with Jad Fair

by PC Muñoz

[2.Nov.09] :. Artist/producer PC Muñoz mines for gems and grills the greats.

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Books Review

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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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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Music Feature

Rebels Wit Attitude: Nirvana

by Iain Ellis

[11.Jan.09] :. In this excerpt from PopMatters' new book Rebels Wit Attitude, Iain Ellis discusses how Nirvana were a rocking perfect storm of punk’s attitude, metal’s riffs, and pop hooks.

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News

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.

 

Kurt Cobain

by J.M. Suarez

[17.Apr.08] :. Schnack has gone to great lengths to humanize Cobain and offer more than the usual icon worship usually attributed to such a tragic figure.

 

Nirvana by Everett True

by Leslie Joseph

[25.May.07] :. One of the author's major assertions, expressed through quotes of others, is that Nirvana remains a powerful entity owing much to the fact that Kurt Cobain is gone.

 

Nirvana Unseen

by Kevin Devine

['Nirvana Unseen' is] a head-trip because MTV would never let a band do something like that now.