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...multiplatinum albums. Gangsta rappers reveled in their outlaw mystique, crafting ultra-violent tales of drive-bys and stick-ups designed to shock and enthrall their primary audience--white suburban teenagers. "Hip-hop seemed dangerous; it seemed angry," says Richard Nickels, who manages the hip-hop band the Roots. "Kurt Cobain killed himself, and rock seemed weak. But then you had these black guys who came out and had guns. It was exciting to white kids...
...previous ones, which sold over a million each). But residual love for his music remains sky high. "Most Indonesians have had a Dewa 19 moment," says Rian Pelor, a music writer for Trax magazine. Certainly, there is no musician like Dhani in the country-he is Indonesia's Cobain or Lennon. And while his new musical tack has been greeted with suspicion in some quarters, what if it does articulate a concern of Indonesia's silent majority? Channeling their feelings is something that Dhani has never failed to do in the past. "Music can reach the masses...
Having already auctioned Kurt Cobain's diaries, rock widow Courtney Love is selling her deceased husband's personal effects. She told SPINNER.COM, "I still wear his pajamas ... How am I ever going to go form another relationship in my lifetime wearing Kurt's pajamas?" Actually, that sounds like a great conversation starter. SCORE...
Hole singer and Kurt Cobain heir Courtney Love is being sued by a rehab facility for allegedly paying just $10,000 of her $181,286 bill. Says gossip site CELEBSNOW.COM: "Courtney Love may claim to be clean and sober these days, but she's still apparently a little forgetful." score...
...stack up to the rounding errors on Nevermind, but its influence on Beck, Blur, Radiohead and countless other musicians of the '90s is incalculable. Lead singer and former Whitney Museum of Art security guard Stephen Malkmus expressed alienation with the same lo-fi guitar grit of Kurt Cobain, but his lyrics and vocals were models of cryptic passion. Somehow his word salads communicated both the ennui of a suburban smart-ass and an awareness that ennui isn't tragic...