Being a music fan was much different in the era before the internet. News traveled slowly, passing through many, many filters–so many, in fact, that a tremendous amount of information was either stripped
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Vladimir Putin’s mobilization of new fighters for his disastrous invasion of Ukraine is not going well. Millions of able-bodied men are being called up and many will have none of it, making a
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Here is the next instalment of the evolution of the word “punk” from referring to a prostitute back in the 16th century to describing a specific musical aesthetic. In the early 70s, some
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Chester Bennington’s 2017 suicide sent ripples throughout pop culture. We’re still feeling it. It was well known that Chester had all sorts of mental health issues that ebbed and flowed for years. In
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No Doubt was formed by Eric Stefani, Gwen’s brother, just before Christmas 1986. The singer at the time was a guy named John Spence, a super-energetic guy who came famous for doing backflips.
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When Kurt Cobain was found dead on April 8, 1994, he’d already been lying in that room above a carriage house for three days already. And given that he was a high-profile celebrity,
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When the toxicology report came back after Chris Cornell’s suicide in May 2017, it revealed that he had a cocktail of prescription drugs in his system at the time of his death: Butalbital,
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I’m not a fan of Halloween, but I do like a good scare from things like movies, novels, and even music. Here are my picks in no particular order for the scariest when
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This story drips with both goodness and irony. Christina Settanni was driving in Orlando when she passed a young man sitting on the edge of a freeway. Because he looked so distraught, she
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Sometime on April 5, 1994, Kurt Cobain, who had walked away from a rehab facility in LA four days earlier, went to the greenhouse room above the shed in the backyard of his
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At first, there was nothing particularly special about Friday, April 8, 1994. I came to work at the radio station as usual, saw the usual people, and prepared for my radio show in
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