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Kurt Cobain at 45
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Reading that Kurt Cobain would have been 45 years old yesterday really hit home: Every scenario one might imagine for a Kurt Cobain in the here-and-now seems absurd, and each shows a fundamental lack of understanding for a complicated, mercurial... more
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February, 21, 2012
Listen to Jim DeRogatis on Eight Forty-Eight848 120222 jim.mp3At this rate, Jim is going to become our resident Dear Abby -- except much, much sterner. Yes, Jim will be taking calls Wednesday on Eight Forty-Eight during his discussion with Tony Sarabia, something that we hope will be...
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February, 21, 2012
Wanna push this blogger’s buttons? A surefire winner always is the mix of indelible melodies with chaotic guitar noise, whatever the context and other elements at work. But while many critics were hailing Treats, the 2010, M.I.A.-endorsed debut by the Brooklyn duo Sleigh Bells, as a masterpiece in...
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February, 21, 2012
Unicycle Loves You perform "Wow Wave Cinema" from Failure (Mecca Lecca)Listen to the performance and interviewUnicycle Loves You.mp3Unicycle Loves You has been Jim Carroll musical outlet for nearly six years. With their third album, Failure, the noise pop trio has honed in on a catchy sound...
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February, 21, 2012
Much more than last year’s numerous celebrations of the 20th anniversary of Nevermind, reading here and there that Kurt Cobain would have been 45 years old yesterday but for that moment of despair on the banks of Lake Washington really hit home, and not only because it reminds those of us so moved...
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February, 20, 2012
In the not-so-grand tradition of Dan Sinker's @MayorEmanuel, the mysterious Tweeter behind @LollaLeaks has exposed himself as a fraud, writing on Tumblr that "I’ve been f---ing with you this whole time. I started @LollaLeaks as a bit of an experiment. Could one 'anonymous' person throw a random...
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February, 20, 2012
Less than a decade ago, social media forms like Facebook, Twitter and others were non-existent. Yet today, they’re as ubiquitous as, say, music in our lives. Both music and social media serve as narrative forms, in many senses. And, each often play a role in our own individual (...
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