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“A rehabilitation process for us”: The only way Pink Floyd tried to heal themselves

Not every band can weather the storm of the music business on their own. There are bound to be a handful of moments when things don’t work out, but the best part about the business is being able to rise like a phoenix from the ashes than worrying about how to get over the biggest […]

“Manufactured”: Why disregarding Led Zeppelin as imitators is redundan according to Kurt Cobain

Passion can be our undoing, sometimes. Is there anything more eye-roll worthy than when someone calls your favourite artist overrated? Or worse, unoriginal? “Popularity doesn’t mean they’re good,” someone might say, priming the stage for countless reasons about why that may or may not be the case. It’s everywhere: there’s probably someone within a 50-foot […]

An iconic artist of Grunge Rock Kurt Cobain and the final song he played onstage

An iconic artist of Grunge Rock Kurt Cobain and the final song he played onstage ‘Heart Shaped Box’ – Kurt Cobain For as harsh as Nirvana’s In Utero tour got, no one could have assumed where Kurt Cobain was heading. Sure, many artists have complained about the strain that the touring life puts on them, […]

The Simpsons song that outsold ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’

When it was released in 1991, ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ was not just a gigantic breakthrough moment for Nirvana or the grunge movement, but a watershed moment in terms of rock music re-entering the mainstream with something that felt genuinely subversive. Mainstream rock music throughout the 1980s had felt watered-down to some, lacking in the […]