Before anyone starts asking “#MWE, WTF?”, the hashtag stands for Music Writing Exercise, and is the brainchild of Gary Suarez, freelancer about the Internet who hatched this idea five years ago. As a
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Montage of Heck, the Brett Morgen-directed Kurt Cobain film that follows his life up until his death, is easily one of the best documentaries of this year. In this 52-minute piece, Soundworks discusses
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While we’re awaiting the final first-week sales tally for Adele’s 25 album, an interesting piece of news got lost in the hype. Remember Kurt Cobain’s “solo album,” Montage of Heck? How is it
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If there’s one thing we can extrapolate from the release of Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, The Home Recordings, is that the Nirvana well is dry. Even the dregs are gone. Fans have
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When Montage of Heck gets released on DVD and Blu-Ray next month, it will be accompanied by an album full of stuff that Kurt Cobain left behind. There were boxes and boxes of
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Sadly, Kurt is still dead. But because a trove of unreleased recordings was uncovered during the filming of the documentary Montage of Heck, there’s enough material to gather together for an album. Most
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This was supposed to be included in Montage of Heck but was cut. In it, Kurt appears to be really, really ill with his mysterious stomach ailment and is feeling awful after a
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Like the Indian Ocean which washes up secrets on distant shores when you least expect it, so does the Internet. Take, for example, this ancient material from Kurt Cobain dating to sometime in
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If you haven’t seen Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck on HBO yet, set aside some time to do it. Then take half an hour to listen to this podcast.
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On this day in 1949, EDSAC, the first digital(ish) computer ran its first program. Duran Duran anti-wrinkle cream: just £4,000. Seriously. You may end up watching this nine second Nickelback parody over and over
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I was sitting in a theatre in downtown Toronto watching Brett Morgen’s doc on the life and times of Kurt Cobain when my phone buzzed right in the middle of a scene where
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