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Monday, Apr 6
Music Review: Grand Duchy - Petits Fours
OH none other than Kurt Cobain, who is on record as saying, "When I heard The Pixies for the first time I connected with them so heavily, I should have been in that band, or at least in a Pixies cover band. We (Nirvana) used their sense of dynamics, ...
Monday, Mar 30
Music Review: Radiohead - Pablo Honey (Collector's Edition - 2 CDs)
OH Hearing Radiohead in 1993 was, to many, a little like hearing the “British Nirvana.” This bitter grunge stuff was withering on the vine, with the American kids on their way out of the Seattle haze. ‘93 was the year of In Utero, the year before we lost ...
Tuesday, Feb 24
Music Review: Audrye Sessions - Audrye Sessions
OH Instead of any Nirvana or Kurt Cobain-specific influence, the San Francisco Bay Area quartet (Ryan Karazija — guitar, vocals; Alicia Marie Campbell — bass; Michael Knox — guitar; James Leste — drums) has been decidedly more impacted by Radiohead and ...
Wednesday, Aug 1
Book Review: Marooned: The Next Generation Of Desert Island Discs edited by Phil Freeman
But these sort of lists being what they are by their very nature, it is still nowhere near being complete. Where for example is Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska? Why is Johnny Cash's entire American Recordings series narrowed down to his single cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt"?
Tuesday, Jul 17
Music Reviews: Dream Theater, Prince and S.O.D.
Got a confession to make. I used to think this lot were a bunch of Nirvana clones signed to jump on the bandwagon with a pretty boy on lead. Never rated their early albums. Lets just say this lot have grown up a wee bit and release quite a nice little CD. Its got oodles of charm, humour and rocks rather...
Monday, Jul 2
Concert Review: The Polyphonic Spree - Brooklyn
The first part of the “encore” was a couple of covers, both off the Wait EP. First was Nirvana’s “Lithium.” This was a fun song to see them do, but the subsequent “Sonic Bloom” was more satisfying. I think the Nirvana cover probably worked better for people who aren’t as big fans of the Spree. I’d l...
Thursday, Jun 28
Music Review: Asia - Fantasia: Live In Tokyo
The last gasps of progressive rock occurred in the late 1980s. Young people were just turning on to rap, hip hop and grunge rock, which hit on themes they could associate with. The phenomenal rise of Pacific Coast bands Nirvana, and Soundgarden, along with the earthier messages of Public En...
Thursday, Jun 21
Music Review: Starcode Shines On Debut Hum
New York City-based power pop rockers Starcode have no record label, but created a buzz this year after promoting their self-released debut album Hum to over 100 college radio stations in the U.S., from Iowa to Philadelphia, with help from Organic Entertainment. And after wearing out the r...
Thursday, Jun 14
Music DVD Review: The Jesus Lizard - The Jesus Lizard DVD
The Jesus Lizard was a band that I was a fan of after I was engulfed in the grunge scene. I originally found out about them through a split single CD that featured them and Nirvana (“Puss/Oh The Guilt”). After I heard that song I was an instant fan. Regretfully, I never got to see the band live, but t...
Saturday, Jun 9
Concert Review: Dinosaur Jr., May 28, 2007, Winnipeg
Dinosaur Jr. were seen as an influential band back when Nirvana and the Pixies were the darlings of the alternative rock scene. J Mascis is an extraordinary talent and overall, the band's pop songs were a joy to listen to. Mascis extremely heavy sound owes more to the free spirit of punk than it...
Friday, Jun 8
Music Review: Indie Round-Up - Oldies, Goodies, and Bands from Down Under
Second Dan, the New York band led by the Australian Dan Rosen, makes muscular alt-rock that's tight and noisy at the same time. That tension sometimes puts on a new-wave 1980s face, like early U2 or Midnight Oil, with a little ska flavor here and there. The verse of "You Make Me Want To" even sou...
Wednesday, May 23
My Top CDs: Underground Christian Rock of the 1990s
Back in the 1990s, while I was discovering Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and the whole barrage of grunge and alternative bands, I was also being introduced to some great underground Christian bands that could definitely sit along side the rest as quality musicians with plenty of sub...
Thursday, May 10
Music Review: Scuba
Like The Beatings, Scuba exist to invoke (and improve on) some of the most revered sounds of the past thirty years or so. But where The Beatings draw on The Pixies, Mission of Burma and Sonic Youth, Scuba are best described as - get this - shoegazer revivalists.
Podcast: Music Review: Patti Smith - Twelve
1. Are You Experienced? 2. Everybody Wants To Rule The World 3. Helpless 4. Gimme Shelter 5. Within You Without You 6. White Rabbit 7. Changing Of The Guards 8. The Boy In The Bubble 9. Soul Kitchen 10. Smells Like Teen Spirit 11. Midnight Rider 12. Pastime Paradise
Thursday, Apr 5
The Man Who Changed My World - Remembering Kurt Cobain
In hindsight, I understand the ignorance of those individuals who did not share in my grief on that long, spring evening. Before Nirvana — singer/guitarist Cobain, bassist Chris Novoselic and drummer Dave Grohl — came along, I did not put much stock into this sort of thing, either. I cared a...
Thursday, Mar 29
Podcast: Music Review: Patti Smith - Twelve
At this late stage of her career -- Patti Smith was just inducted into this year's class of the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame -- an album of well chosen covers by other artists could either be regarded as a brilliant career move or an uncharacteristic attempt at commercialism.
Monday, Mar 26
The Listening Room March 26, 2007: Nirvana, Joan Jett, Paul Westerberg, Genesis, Queen
DJRadiohead: "Milk It" from In Utero by Nirvana You don't have to reinvent the wheel when you have a great formula and a great song. “Milk It” is not a lead song, it's a supporting one. It isn't the reason In Utero is a great album, but In Utero wouldn't be great without it.
Music Review: Everybody Else (Self Titled)
It was little over fifteen years ago when Seattle grunge rockers Nirvana changed the world of rock music. Their rock anthem, “Smells like Teen Spirit”, signaled the death of both glam and heavy metal with the groups’ woefully cynical lyrics and powerful take on three chord rock music.
Thursday, Mar 22
Music Review: Kurt Reifler
Kurt Reifler's background contains the singer/songwriter thing as well as a bit of indie rock, both of which can be heard on this debut album. You can hear open mic sensitivity as well as echoes of the gnarly, nonlinear grind and sway of Reifler's funk rock group Sexred.
Sunday, Mar 18
Satire: Nirvana Song Sold for Use in Drano Advertisements; Last Remnants of 1990s Grunge Fans' Faith in Humankind Shattered
“This opens the door for a series of other bold opportunities for our company,” Huntington IV continued. “Already we’re in negotiations for licensing other Nirvana songs, including “Territorial Pissings” for Roto-Rooter, “Big Cheese” for Velveeta, and “Come As You Are” for Big Bob’s...
Friday, Mar 16
Music Review: Lovedrug - Everything Starts Where It Ends
Everything Starts Where It Ends is a follow up to Lovedrug’s first album, Pretend Your Alive. Admittedly, I wasn't familiar with the group until now and I'm impressed with their musical tributes to some of the heady days of Seattle grunge. Michael Shepherd's vocals and the bands sonic edge...
Friday, Mar 2
Book Review: The Show I'll Never Forget - 50 Writers Relive Their Most Memorable Concertgoing Experience - Edited by Sean Manning
In another interesting story, Charles Cross remembers the Halloween 1991 Seattle homecoming of Nirvana -- a show that I also attended -- during the height of grunge-mania. My own memories of that show were of the incredible energy and pride in the air as Seattle's hometown heroes cemente...
