Word: bande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...judge this band by its book covers: on the inside of Rage's previous CD, Evil Empire, there was a collage of the dust jackets of leftist classics like Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth and George Jackson's Soledad Brother. It's hard to be a radical band in moderate times; it's hard to believe, in the age of the Backstreet Boys and a booming Dow, that music has meaning beyond SoundScan figures. Nonetheless, Rage's rock-hop music takes on racism and capitalism while also offering vocal support to Mumia Abu-Jamal and the Zapatista...
Well, it looks like grunge officially died yesterday--with a messy shotgun wound to the head. The bloodspattered corpse of Kurt Cobain, leader of the rock band Nirvana, was found dead along with a undisclosed suicide note in his Seattle apartment...
...Wendy O'Connor, mother of Kurt Cobain, as quoted from a story in the Associated Press. Cobain, leader of the grunge band Nirvana, committed suicide yesterday...
...Little Night Music--Spend a weekend in the country with Sondheim's band of mismatched lovers. Loeb Mainstage, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, 8 p.m. Sunday. $58 for students...
...political purpose. Josh Anderson at least has a cause. He says he drifted to Straight Edge, and the hard-core, punk rock-like music that is part of the scene, after his mother was ostracized by the Mormon church for coming out as a lesbian. He listened to a band named Earth Crisis, read books on animal liberation and became a vegan. One night in 1996, he and some Straight Edge mates drove by a McDonald's still under construction. "We joked and said it would be neat if we burned it down," he says. And so they did, going...