Word: cobain
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Capitalizing on a fellow artist’s death has been, alongside shooting smack and selling out to the Man, one of the most popular hobbies of musicians in the past decade. Courtney Love got the ball rolling in 1994; after ex-husband Kurt Cobain, in the words of our Fearless Leader, suicided himself, Love successfully mourned her way to unjustified record deals, piles of prescription drugs and “lots and lots and lots of money” after agreeing to release a Nirvana greatest hits collection...
...final rationalization to be offered for Elliott’s constant barrage of Aaliyah imagery and shout-outs is to recognize any social injustice that may have led to the loss. But the circumstances of Aaliyah’s death, unlike those of Biggie or Kurt Cobain, can hardly be regarded as a teachable moment. The singer was aboard a Cessna passenger plane in the course of a Bahamas music video shoot, when the plane crashed into the ocean, killing all of its passengers. No grand social force appears to have contributed to the death of Aaliyah, and the only...
...Lady of the Forest never goes quite as deeply into spiritual revelation or narrative resolution as readers might want. But it gives us an unflinching picture of Hawthorne's descendants in the wake of Kurt Cobain. More than that, it shows Guterson to be a serious and searching craftsman, very much in the American grain and determined to take himself further, into questions of possession (and of dispossession). Sometimes it feels as if all the neglected voices of the Pacific Northwest--self-righteous slackers, trailer-park priests, the sexually abused--are pouring through him in this book. What we choose...
...Grohl is another rock god living his dream. At 21 he was drumming for Nirvana, and after front man Kurt Cobain's suicide, he moved center stage as guitarist and lead singer for the Foo Fighters. In the past year, Grohl has also played drums on every track of acclaimed albums by heavy-metal rockers Queens of the Stone Age, female singer-songwriter Cat Power and goth princes Killing Joke (whose first album in seven years, Killing Joke, is out this week). Grohl has also released a platinum-selling Foo Fighters record, performed with Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Costello...
...image and its reality. Not all the work is quite so intimate or quotidian, but neither is there a deliberate attempt to become the next sensation by piling on the shock value. Dexter Dalwood's Ceaucescu's Execution (earlier works include imagined views of Bill Gates' Bedroom and Kurt Cobain's Greenhouse) disturbs mainly by inference. A traditional oil on canvas, it refers to the patriotic legends of 19th century history painting. There is no glory here, though. All we see is the detritus of revolution: blood vividly stains the walls of a deserted ballroom stripped of everything but some...