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Kurt Cobain was the voice of a generation. Twenty years after his death, why does he still matter?On April 5, 1994, twenty-seven-year-old Kurt Cobain took his own life. His desperation to kick drugs, his complicated relationship with fame, his tortured soul?all these elements came together in one terrible moment in Seattle, and the landscapes of music and pop culture were forever changed. Two decades have passed since Cross, a Seattle-based editor and writer and early supporter of Nirvana, lived the horror of that day on the front lines, fielding the phone calls as the media descended upon his city, desperately searching for an exclusive on the death of yet another young rock icon.While the impact of a person's life is difficult to see fully on the day he dies, the long view provides a wider, and usually more accurate, vista. For the first time ever, Cross, author of the definitive Cobain biography, Heavier Than Heaven, explores how the haunting memory of Cobain?the life he led, the music he played, and the people he touched?lives on in innumerable, and sometimes surprising, ways. Here We Are Now attempts to answer where we?the fans, the music business and fashion industry, the addiction and recovery communities, Kurt's family?are, two decades later.Cobain's life and work can be seen everywhere, from his indelible marks on music to his more subtle influence on gender and gay rights, the way we view suicide and drug addiction, and the very idea of Seattle as a cultural hub. Nirvana's music has touched multiple generations, and while the world has changed considerably since Nevermind was first released in 1991, the status of that album only grows as years pass. Cobain and Nirvana are now part of a rite of passage through adolescence, and while "teen spirit" may have changed and evolved since the early nineties, the music remains authentic all the same. Simply stated, Kurt Cobain changed the cultural conversation, in his all too brief life, and even after his shattering death. With interviews and commentary from all corners of the pop culture universe, from the people who knew Cobain to those who continue to help his legend grow, Here We Are Now explores what a singular life meant, and how that meaning can be measured, when and if it can be.

Emerging from the not-so-mean streets of suburban New England at the tail end of the 1980s, The Unband embraced everything reckless, unhealthy, and downright harebrained about rock and roll. After a decade on the booze-and-gas-soaked road to success, with the help of their dominatrix manager, a willful record executive or two, and dumb luck in spades, the hard-rocking, gleefully out-of-control Unband arrived at the threshold of the new century and got their shot at the big time?in a chaotic music industry where boy-band pop ruled supreme and rock music had been declared dead. In this epic, intoxicated un-memoir, Unband bassist Michael Ruffino delves deeper into the story he originally told in 2004's Gentlemanly Repose, taking readers along on a raucous tear through the netherworld of heavy rock, populated with crack-smoking Girl Scouts, collegiate bedlamites, shotgun-toting barmaids, a rodent-chomping music CEO, a beer-drinking chimp, and headbangers by the horde, while on tour with giants of heavy metal including Dio, Motörhead, Anthrax, Def Leppard, and a Who Was Who of reunited '80s hair bands. Into that volatile mix, The Unband brought do-it-yourself pyrotechnics, a giant inflatable hand (for making giant inflatable gestures), a high tolerance for substance abuse of all kinds, and an infectious love of rock and roll and everything it stands for.Equal parts This Is Spinal Tap and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Adios, Motherfucker is a riotous and unbridled testament to rock and roll being at its best on the brink of disaster.

The iconic life and career of the famed guitarist of the Rolling Stones is detailed in this compilation of interviews that spans the last 50 years. Featuring articles from GQ, Melody Maker, and Rolling Stone, as well as interviews that have never previously appeared in print, it charts Keith Richards's journey from gauche, young pretender and swaggering epitome of the zeitgeist to beloved elder statesman of rock. Initially overshadowed by band mates Mick Jagger and Brian Jones, Richards gained popularity as half of the second-most important songwriting team of the 1960s, and in 1967 the drug bust at his house and his subsequent trial and imprisonment made him a household name. His interviews match his outlaw image: free of banality and euphemism, they revel in frank stories of drugs and debauchery. Yet they also reveal an unexpectedly warm, unpretentious, articulate, and honest man. This collection amply illustrates the magic and charm of Keith Richards.

New York Times BestsellerFounding member, singer, and lead guitarist of Metallica and Megadeath shares the ultimate, unvarnished story behind his involvement in the rise of two of the worlds most influential heavy metal bands in history. Dave Mustaine is the first to admit that hes bottomed out a few times in his dark and twisted speed metal version of a Dickensian life. From his soul-crushing professional and artistic setbacks to his battle with addiction, Mustaine has hit rock bottom on multiple occasions. April 1983 was his lowest point, when he was unceremoniously fired from Metallica for his hard-partying ways. But, what seemed to be the end of it all was just the beginning for the guitarist. After parting ways with Metallica, Mustaine went on to become the front man, singer, songwriter, guitarist (and de facto CEO) for Megadeathone of the most successful metal bands in the world. A pioneer of the thrash metal movement, Megadeath rose to international fame in the 1980s, and has gone on to earn seven consecutive Grammy nominations for Best Metal Performance. In this outrageously candid memoir, one of heavy metals most iconic figures gives an insiders look into the loud and sordid world of thrash metalsex, drugs, and rock n roll included.

A revealing insider's account of Led Zeppelin's 1975 North American tour from the bestselling author of Hammer of the Gods. As a young music journalist in 1975, Stephen Davis got the opportunity of a lifetime: an invitation to cover the sold-out 1975 North American tour of Led Zeppelin for a national magazine. He received a backstage pass, was granted interviews with band members, and even got a prized seat on the band's luxurious tour jet, The Starship. While on duty, he chronicled the Zeppelin tour in three notebooks, but after writing his article in 1975 he misplaced them. Three decades later, he finally found the notebooks and unearthed a vivid account of the band members' extravagant, and often troubled, lives on tour.Tied together by Davis's entertaining narrative, and including more than forty never-before-published photographs, LZ-'75 is an unprecedented and comprehensive personal portrait of the greatest (and most notoriously press-shy) rock band in history at its apex.

Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 34. Chapters: Eric Clapton discography, Clapton Chronicles: The Best of Eric Clapton, Riding with the King, 461 Ocean Boulevard, Blind Faith, Reptile, Unplugged, Crossroads, Behind the Sun, On Tour with Eric Clapton, Live from Madison Square Garden, Sonny Boy Williamson and The Yardbirds, August, Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert, Crossroads 2: Live in the Seventies, Journeyman, Pilgrim, Blues, One More Car, One More Rider, Eric Clapton at His Best, Slowhand, The History of Eric Clapton, Me and Mr. Johnson, The Road to Escondido, From the Cradle, Live in Hyde Park, 24 Nights, Edge of Darkness, Back Home, Complete Clapton, The Cream of Clapton, Another Ticket, Money and Cigarettes, There's One in Every Crowd, Just One Night, Backless, No Reason to Cry, Guitar Boogie, Backtrackin', Time Pieces Vol.II Live in the Seventies, E. C. Was Here, The Cream of Eric Clapton, Time Pieces: The Best of Eric Clapton, Steppin' Out, Rush, Stages. Excerpt: The discography of Eric Clapton, a British guitarist and singer-songwriter, currently contains twenty studio albums, twenty-six singles, sixteen compilations, nine live albums and six soundtrack albums as a solo-artist and several collaborations on records between different artists. Before his career as a solo-artist, Clapton worked as a guitarist in several bands, including The Yardbirds 1963¿65, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers 1965¿66, Cream 1966¿68, Blind Faith 1968¿69 and Derek and the Dominos 1970¿71. Clapton decided to record as a solo-artist, after a less successful career as a band member. He released in 1970 his debut album Eric Clapton, which charted at number 17 in the US charts and at number 14 in the British charts. Four years later he released his second album 461 Ocean Boulevard, which received two gold certifications in the US and UK and peaked at number 1 in the US charts. His 1977 album, Slowhand, named after his nickname given by Giorgio Gomelsky, received three times Platinum in the United States. His most commercial recognized period was from 1989 through 2000, where his albums received at least five certifications and peaked in several countries in the top 10. On 27 September 2010 he released the album Clapton which peaked at number six in the US charts and number seven in the UK charts. Eric Clapton's best-selling album to date is the live album Unplugged, one of many albums in the "MTV Unplugged" series on MTV, in which musicians playing their songs on acoustic instruments. This album has sold more than ten million times in the United States alone. It's also one of the best-selling live album in the United States. 17147¿¿85¿¿17¿ 191851¿¿50¿¿¿¿ Format: LP206¿¿¿60¿¿¿¿ Notes ¿¿¿¿¿US: Platinum Clapton is the 20th studio album by English blues-rock guitarist and singer-songwriter Eric Clapton. It was released on 27 September 2010 in the United Kingdom and the following day in the United States. The album is Clapton's first studio album in fou

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 103. Chapters: Queens of the Stone Age, Blue Cheer, Kyuss, Monster Magnet, Wolfmother, The Sword, Mastodon, Grinspoon, The Glasspack, Blood Duster, He Is Legend, Raging Slab, Boris, Clutch, Solace, Karma to Burn, Mondo Generator, Sheavy, The Quill, The Linus Pauling Quartet, Torche, High on Fire, Mannhai, Electric Wizard, Sleep, Fu Manchu, Priestess, Pod People, Sixty Watt Shaman, Kamchatka, ASG, Dozer, Part Chimp, Acrimony, Dead Meadow, Spiritual Beggars, Yawning Man, Brant Bjork, Los Natas, Jucifer, Masters of Reality, Orange Goblin, Fatso Jetson, Fireball Ministry, The Mushroom River Band, Church of Misery, Abramis Brama, Bigelf, Black Tusk, Alabama Thunderpussy, Goatsnake, The Miracle Workers, Yob, The Hidden Hand, Eternal Elysium, Black Spiders, Beaver, Unida, Acid King, Internal Void, Dern Rutlidge, Truckfighters, Spirit Caravan, Colour Haze, Legends of Motorsport, Nebula, The Atomic Bitchwax, Earthlings?, Fort, Bongzilla, Brainerd, Ancestors, Revelation, Saviours, Grand Magus, Keelhaul, Demon Cleaner, Head of David, Tumbleweed, Greenleaf, Place of Skulls, Taint, Ogre, Stinking Lizaveta, Pearls and Brass, Hermano, Mammatus, The Kings of Frog Island, Floor, Trigon, The Tunguska Event, Witch, Unorthodox, Nightstalker, Ché, The Hanging Tree, Halfway to Gone, Lowrider, Core, Sons of Otis, The Heads, Thulsa Doom, Half Man, Slo Burn, Earthride, Adam West, 35007, Greenmachine, Celestial Season, Black River, Black NASA, Weedeater, Lamont, Wooly Mammoth, The Want, Terra Firma, Five Horse Johnson, Leadfoot, Warhorse, Chrome Locust, Operator Generator, Serpent Throne, Gorilla Monsoon, Waxy, Robot Lords of Tokyo, Semen of the Sun. Excerpt: Wolfmother are an Australian hard rock band from Erskineville, Sydney. Formed in 2000, the group was originally a trio composed of vocalist and guitarist Andrew Stockdale, bassist and keyboardist Chris Ross and drummer Myles Heskett. Wolfmother released their self-titled debut album in October 2005, which reached number three on the Australian ARIA Albums Chart. The album was also a critical success, winning the 2005 J Award and 2006 ARIA Awards for Best Breakthrough Album and Best Rock Album. "Woman", a single from the album, won the band their first Grammy Award, for Best Hard Rock Performance, in 2007. In August 2008, co-founding members Ross and Heskett left the band due to "irreconcilable personal and musical differences", after which Stockdale decided to continue using the Wolfmother moniker with new musicians. After a brief hiatus, Stockdale returned with a new four-piece band in January 2009 featuring bassist and keyboardist Ian Peres, rhythm guitarist Aidan Nemeth and drummer Dave Atkins. The new lineup's first album, entitled Cosmic Egg, was released in October 2009 and reached the same Australian chart peak as Wolfmother. Atkins left the band in April 2010 following extensive touring to be replaced by Will Rockwell-Scott of American garage rock band The Mooney Suzuki, and the follow-up to Cosmic Egg is expected in late 2011. Wolfmother formed in 2000 and made their way into the public spotlight in 2004 after "years of jamming and anonymity". They were signed to Australian record label Modular Recordings at the beginning of August and throughout the year played a number of dates at various venues (including a tour with Cut Copy and Midnight Juggernauts), before in September they finished recording and released their debut extended play (EP), Wolfmother. The record was rel...

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 62. Chapters: Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Can, Cluster, Klaus Schulze, Neu!, Conny Plank, Earthstar, Faust, Uwe Nettelbeck, Kluster, Frumpy, Amon Düül, Moebius & Plank, Harmonia, Urbana Gerila, The Resonance Association, Amon Düül II, Agitation Free, Popol Vuh, Xhol Caravan, Jean Ven Robert Hal, Carsten Bohn, Florian Fricke, Kosmische musik, Embryo, Eruption, Kraan, La Düsseldorf, Dieter Moebius, Ash Ra Tempel, Daniel Fichelscher, Mani Neumeier, Wallenstein, Uli Trepte, Ashra, Fujiya & Miyagi, Jane, Guru Guru, Zodiak Free Arts Lab, Night Sun, Krautrocksampler, Baumstam, Cosmic Jokers, Floh de Cologne, Mythos, Kling Klang, Christian Burchard, Motorik, Thirsty Moon, Magnog, Düsseldorf School of electronic music, Dreamlab, Kuckuck Schallplatten, Kin Ping Meh, Super 16, Amon Düül UK. Excerpt: Kraftwerk (German pronunciation: , meaning power plant or power station) is an electronic music band from Düsseldorf, Germany. The group was formed by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider in 1970, and was fronted by them until Schneider's departure in 2008. The signature Kraftwerk sound combines driving, repetitive rhythms with catchy melodies, mainly following a Western Classical style of harmony, with a minimalistic and strictly electronic instrumentation. The group's simplified lyrics are at times sung through a vocoder or generated by computer-speech software. Kraftwerk were one of the first groups to popularize electronic music and are considered pioneers in the field. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Kraftwerk's distinctive sound was revolutionary, and has had a lasting effect across many genres of modern music. Florian Schneider (flutes, synthesizers, electro-violin) and Ralf Hütter (electronic organ, synthesizers) met as students at the Robert Schumann Academy in Düsseldorf in the late 1960s, participating in the German experimental music and art scene of the time, which the British music press dubbed "Krautrock". The duo had originally performed together in a quintet known as Organisation. This ensemble released one album, titled Tone Float (issued on RCA Records in the UK) but the group split shortly thereafter. Early Kraftwerk line-ups from 1970-1974 fluctuated, as Hütter and Schneider worked with around a half-dozen other musicians over the course of recording three albums and sporadic live appearances; most notably guitarist Michael Rother and drummer Klaus Dinger, who left to form Neu!. The only constant figure in these line-ups was Schneider, whose main instrument at the time was the flute; at times also playing violin and guitar, all processed through a varied array of electronic effects. Hütter, who left the band for six months in 1971 to pursue studies in architecture, played synthesiser keyboards (including Farfisa organ and electric piano). Cover of Kr

"Hey Jealousy," "Found Out About You"... most of the hits from the Gin Blossoms' 1992 breakout album, New Miserable Experience are credited to "D. Hopkins," but the mysterious songwriter isn't mentioned anywhere else in the album notes, or even on the band's website. Joe became fascinated with the forgotten story of Doug Hopkins, the band's co-founder and original songwriter, and delved into the history, scouring decades of old interviews and news articles to piece it together. It's a story of heavy drinking, creative genius, and fraught band relationships, ultimately ending in tragedy. This zine serves as a belated eulogy for Hopkins and a powerful parable about the very real stakes of the choices artists make about how to pursue their goals.

Wanda Jackson's debut single, "You Can't Have My Love," reached the Top 10 while she was still a sixteen-year-old high school student. She hit the road after graduation, playing package shows with Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Elvis Presley, who gave Wanda his ring and asked her to be "his girl." With Presley's encouragement, the Oklahoma native began recording rock music, often releasing singles with country on one side and rock on the other during her decade-and-a-half tenure on Capitol Records. Known for her energetic stage shows and pioneering presence as a female artist, Wanda stormed the charts with a series of hit singles, including "Let's Have a Party," "Right or Wrong," and "In the Middle of a Heartache." With more than 40 albums to her credit, Wanda has proven to be an enduring and genre-defying legend of American music. In Every Night is Saturday Night, Wanda tells her own story of getting discovered by Country Music Hall of Famer Hank Thompson; shy she refused to return to The Grand Ole Opry for more than fifty years; the challenges she and her integrated band, The Party Timers, faced in the early 1960s; finding the love of her life; her recent work with rock luminaries Jack White and Joan Jett; and how her deep faith has sustained her over more than seven decades of rocking, shocking, and thrilling audiences around the globe.

"A rock and roll drummer abandons his successful music career to pursue his true passion and discovers a deeper understanding of artistic fulfillment in this episodic memoir of swapping one dream for another"--

"On January 22, 2003, four men stepped onto a stage in Brooklyn and did something no one else was doing at that time, in that place. They played rock 'n' roll: old-fashioned rock 'n' roll with skyscraping riffs and sloppy solos, topped with extraordinary lyrics about an out-of-focus America, blurred by pills and powders, of crime and fear and desperation and redemption. Twenty years later, The Hold Steady are one of America's most beloved rock bands, famed for live shows that turn unbelievers into converts, and for a catalog filled with some of the most exciting yet poetic music of the twenty-first century. To mark those twenty years, The Hold Steady tell their full story in The Gospel of The Hold Steady: How a Resurrection Really Feels. An oral history, based on interviews with everyone who has played in the band, and those who have worked with them over the course of their career, The Gospel of the Hold Steady addresses all the triumphs and setbacks of The Hold Steady's career in the band's own words--from high times to near deaths, from the brink of splitting to their current renaissance. The volume also includes over 200 photographs and images. The Gospel of The Hold Steady is completed by essays about America's greatest bar band by writers Rob Sheffield, Laura Barton, Isaac Fitzgerald, and Michael Hann, as well as the thoughts and memories of 'The Unified Scene'--the fans who have helped define the band's identity over the years"--Amazon.com.

“…the holy grail of information on Big Star and the late Chris Bell. An oral history spanning 400 pages, There Was A Light is exhaustive in its detail and entrancing in its storytelling.” —Under the Radar

The definitive oral history of the iconic, bestselling rock band Led ZeppelinWith Robert Plant on lead vocal and Jimmy Page on guitar, Led Zeppelin is one of the most iconic, legendary, and influential rock bands in musical history. Tales of their indulgence in sex, drugs, and excess have swirled for decades. In this definitive oral history of the band, Barney Hoskyns finally reveals the truth about Led Zeppelin, paring away the myths and describing what life was really like for four young men on top of the world, enjoying fame on a scale that not even the Beatles experienced as a touring live act. Through fresh new interviews with the surviving band members, close friends, their tour manager, and scores of other fascinating characters, Hoskyns provides deep insights into the personalities of the band members and chronicles the group's dramatic rise, fall, and legacy.Based on more than 200 interviews with everyone from Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and John Paul Jones to road manager Richard Cole, their late manager Peter Grant, and many others central to the Zeppelin storyFeatures striking photos of the band both on and offstage, many published here for the first timeTakes a fresh look at Led Zeppelin's music, cultural significance, and legend, as well as the highs and lows of the sex, drugs, and rock and roll lifestyle on the roadAnalyzes the way the band wrote, arranged, and recorded, from how they created the stupendous sound and dynamics on "e;Dazed and Confused"e; and "e;Whole Lotta Love"e; to the group's folk-suffused acoustic side embodied in songs like "e;Friends"e; and "e;That's the Way"e;Written by Barney Hoskyns, contributing editor at British Vogue who is the author of the bestselling book Hotel California and the co-founder of online music-journalism library Rock's Backpages

The Beatles Rubber Soul to Revolver is the latest installment in Bruce Spizer's Beatles Album Series, covering two of the Beatles most important albums, Rubber Soul and Revolver, as well as Capitol's Yesterday And Today LP and the singles associated with these albums. Rubber Soul and Revolver set new standards for pop and rock records, and presented a maturing and evolving Beatles to the world. The 16 tracks recorded during the Rubber Soul sessions are among the group's finest. With Revolver, the Beatles were looking for more color in their recordings, trying new instruments and techniques. But they were not using studio wizardry to cover weaknesses; they were looking for new sounds to enhance their already brilliant songs. The book contains chapters on the British, American, and Canadian perspectives, an extensive treatment on the infamous Butcher Cover (featuring all of the significant images from the photo sessions and the true story behind the controversial cover). There are also chapters on the recording sessions and album covers, as well as on the news, music, and films of the era to place these albums in their proper context. And, of course, dozens of fan recollections.