Ah, the bootleg. That hiterto unheard-of piece of arcane musicalia for millennials born into an age with torrents, Spotify and every other file-sharing platform that makes loving music so little hard work now. Back in the day, it was all…
Rating: Ever been so angry you’ve wanted to scream until your lungs fall out? How about so angry that you feel like destroying anything and everything in your path, including that priceless Picasso you’ve seen hanging in the local museum?…
“I wanna know the exact dimensions of hell”, Kim Gordon sang on Sonic Youth’s 1988 album Daydream Nation. Visual artist, musician, fashion icon and inspiration for generations of teenage girls, there’s plenty to say about the no wave queen, so…
This month we invited our writers to get all wistful and nostalgic and cast their eyes and ears over their record collections/iTunes folders, dig out their old ticket stubs and tell us what has been the greatest year for music within…
Although he may not have approved of us all fawning over his death and pining for his return twenty years later, I’m sure Kurt Cobain would forgive us for obsessing over his music, in the way that he did about…
As part of the reissue of ‘In Utero’ in light of it’s 20th anniversary, footage of Nirvana performing ‘Scentless Apprentice’ at Seattle Pier 48 on December 13 1993 has been debuted. The full Live and Loud show won’t feature on…
In the PR and marketing obsessed world that is the music industry there is one method which has proven again and again to be a winner in the crowd approval and popularity steaks. And that method? Death. Yep, as drastic…
As a fitting tribute for the 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s third and final album ‘In Utero’, Dutch director Anton Corbijn has released the director’s cut video for ‘Heart-Shaped Box’, scenes only previously made available on his 2005 DVD. Although it’s…