“Kurt ended up giving me this rad guitar!”: Foo Fighters’ Pat Smear recalls his first show with Nirvana
“Saturday Night Live” alum Ana Gasteyer reflected on her six-year stint on the show on the latest episode of Bowen Yang and ...
“We knew we didn’t want to do an acoustic version of Teen Spirit”: The story of Nirvana's seminal MTV Unplugged set
Resisting network pressure to simply play the hits, Kurt Cobain, Pat Smear, Krist Novoselic, and Dave Grohl pulled together a ...
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13 hit songs hated by the musicians who wrote them
He said in a 2017 interview: “‘Wonderwall’ has become a worldwide ... “I was trying to write the ultimate pop song,” Kurt ...
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13 hit songs hated by the musicians who wrote them
In 1993, Joel remarked ... “I was trying to write the ultimate pop song,” Kurt Cobain told journalist David Fricke in 1994, adding that he was heavily inspired by the loud-quiet-loud ...
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“Kurt ended up giving me this rad guitar!”: Foo Fighters’ Pat Smear recalls how his ‘good’ guitar wasn’t good enough for Nirvana
He heard somebody say: “We can’t let him on stage!” ...
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Kate Bush's Hounds Of Love Album Was Revolutionary And Exploded The Myth Of The Tortured Artist
In a 2022 interview with Pitchfork , the Icelandic singer-songwriter ... The“tortured artist” is a pervasive trope in music ...
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Kim Deal Is Ready to Go Solo. It Just Took 4 Decades.
Kurt Cobain loved her songs and took the band on tour with Nirvana in 1993; the 21-year-old pop ... s a songwriter,” Kelley said in a phone interview. Deal co-wrote “Gigantic,” one of ...
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How R.E.M. Created Alternative Music
In the cultural wasteland of the Reagan era, they showed that a band could break through to mass appeal without being cheesy, or nostalgic, or playing hair metal.