Word: cobain
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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...
...time between Manhattan and country homes, the people who accumulated real wealth as a result of the American indie rock saga of the `80s were either in Nirvana or married to people in Nirvana. For that reason, the tenth anniversary of Nevermind comes attended by unceremonious squabbling. Courtney Love, Cobain's famed widow, is engaged in a court battle with bassist Krist Novoselic and drummer Dave Grohl over the rights to the Nirvana catalog, and that lawsuit looks as if it will prevent a Nevermind box set from being released this year. Such high- stakes legal brawls are worlds away...
...favorite songs on sheets of paper, as though imbuing those sheets with incantatory power. For days before I became more Catholic in my tastes, or before I learned to recognize that musical taste is only a small part of what makes a person. For the Reformation, when Kurt Cobain, my own (private?) Martin Luther, nailed his lyrics to the door and changed what I thought about music (hell, before that, I owned both Wilson Phillips albums), not the Counter-Reformation that restored orthodoxy and maturity. It was simpler then. Before Trent and all that. Before I became Pollyanna. I know...
...hand-over of Hong Kong to mainland China is a relatively minor event among the emotional cataclysms in this short-story debut. Chiu refracts classic old-vs.-new-world tensions through the prism of second-generation Chinese-American Gen-Xers, inspired more by Kurt Cobain than by Buddha. The resulting chasm between the Chinese Americans and their immigrant parents is filled with disappointments, with tales of anorexia and homophobia, and that stubborn reluctance by young and old to see each other as each wishes to be seen...
...knew MTV was big, for instance, when you were able to turn it on at just about any hour of the day and watch a music video. For some of us beyond the tween demographic, who lost our symbiotic connection with the music scene around the time Kurt Cobain lost his life, the Food Network in the mid-'90s became our MTV. And its equivalent of the single was the recipe. Some of us cooked, some didn't--it didn't really matter. Seeing a cassoulet executed by a master was like hearing a perfect three-minute pop song, satisfying...