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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Azerrad, who wrote the 1994 Nirvana bio "Come As You Are," well knows how indispensable Kurt Cobain's band was in alt-rock's rise to prominence, but "Our Band Could Be Your Life" is a lesson in the impossibility of reducing the revolution to an individual (or a trio). Its story goes like this: in the early `80s, a bunch of kids in unknown punk bands, like L.A.'s Black Flag, figured out that "calling up a pressing plant and getting their own record manufactured wasn't the mysterious, exclusive privilege of the giant record companies on the coasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bands that Made Nirvana | 7/31/2001 | See Source »

Ironically, this is the same sort of glammed-up rock excess that alt-rock reacted against. But despite Weezer's nerd-rock image, Cuomo was originally inspired by such over-the-top metal acts as the Scorpions. "I was a metal kid at heart," he says. "But I couldn't do all the right poses and I couldn't wear leather pants." Who knows? Rock stardom could even be more fun for Weezer the second time around than in the alterna-purist mid-'90s. "At the time, it was definitely not okay to be successful. It wasn't cool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rock Is Rollin' | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

...intellectually adventurous," said James E. Alt, Thompson professor of government and Schwartz's thesis advisor. "He has what I can only call unbelievable energy and motivation. In thirty years of teaching, I've maybe known one other student with this kind of capacity for dedication...

Author: By Nicole B. Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Senior Wins Fruend Prize for Perfect 15.0 GPA | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

...Alt predicted a bright future for Schwartz in the public sector...

Author: By Nicole B. Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Senior Wins Fruend Prize for Perfect 15.0 GPA | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

...extremely strong interests in public policy. You can't talk to the guy for a minute without picking up on his social responsibility," Alt said...

Author: By Nicole B. Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Senior Wins Fruend Prize for Perfect 15.0 GPA | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

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