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...HAVE TO FIGHT TO GAIN NIRVANA...
Last week the privacy-averse Courtney Love--widow of Kurt Cobain, the Nirvana rocker who killed himself in 1994--penned a wounded e-mail to the band's fans. Seems the Widow Cobain is being sued by Nirvana members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, who want her to have no say in the band's affairs. The two are fed up with Love's attempts to block release of a greatest- hits CD. So Courtney went straight to the fans. "Kurt Cobain was Nirvana," she wrote, and said she represents him. Grohl and Novoselic released their own missive, saying Love...
...cynical musings. Led by Manson’s rock-vixen vocals, the quartet’s 1995 debut, Garbage, saw the Madison, Wis.-based band rise quickly amidst the then-decaying alt-rock universe. Fueled by producer/drummer/founder Butch Vig, a veteran of the alternative scene from work with Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins, the band showed considerable maturity and greater refinement in 2.0 while still breaking out a slew of radio-friendly singles, among them “Special” and “I Think I’m Paranoid...
...OAR’s revolution appeals to a youthful audience as a cathartic gesture, an expression of anger against the things that hold them inside. Through the music, it is transformed from a destructive urge to tear down walls to an empowering image of freedom and self-expression. Unlike Nirvana, whose anger often manifested itself physically on stage in the form of smashing guitars, OAR keeps its violence within. OAR takes us to the point of nothingness, but only to reveal that all of our obstructions are illusions...
...different languages often strike similar chords. Listen to the intense, undulant wail of Assane Ndiaye on the song Nguisstal, a track on Streets of Dakar: Generation Boul Fale, a compilation of young Senegalese acts. Boul fale is a Wolof phrase that means, loosely, "Never mind." The American punk group Nirvana's seminal album of teen angst was also titled Nevermind. Alienation, it seems, is a nation without borders...