Kurt Cobain »
Dw. Dunphy On…The Primacy Of Rock Guitars
Remember when rock was popular and not niche? Dw Dunphy does
Read More »Greatest Un-Hits: MC 900 Ft. Jesus’ “If I Only Had a Brain” (1994)
Certain musical acts come along that are so original, so different, so forward leaning that their arrival brings irrevocable change to the fabric of pop music…even if chart placements and sales figures don’t back
Read More »CD Review: Foo Fighters, “Wasting Light”
Do you remember rock 'n roll? On Foo Fighters' latest, Wasting Light, the answer is yes
Read More »Bootleg City: Doesn’t Smell Like Team Spirit to Me
As most of you know by now, “The Goon and the Prune” didn’t shoot a single frame of film in Bootleg City. Amnesty International caught wind of the filmmakers’ plans to use local citizens
Read More »DVD Review: Nirvana, “Live At Reading”
Can you remember 1992? I certainly can, and what I remember is that trash TV — and to some extent, even the mainstream media — was filled with stories about Kurt Cobain and his
Read More »Dw. Dunphy On… The Easy Way Out
Dw. Dunphy has returned with a new column -- and as it turns out, he's all fired up about these damn kids, with their Rock Band, and their fancy knobs and buttons and whatnot
Read More »Popdose Flashback: The Cult, “Sonic Temple”
Things should have been going swimmingly for The Cult. Their album Electric had succeeded in becoming the biker-rock record they hoped it would be – raw, straight-ahead and helmed by a fledgling production wunderkind
Read More »Book Review: “Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music”
It’s hard to believe (for those of us who lived it, anyway) that it’s been fifteen years since Kurt Cobain committed suicide. On April 5th, 1994, the Seattle native left the world with the
Read More »Being Kurt Cobain
My first impression of Kurt Cobain, even before I knew anything about him, was that he was the kid in school who was painfully quiet, but whose mind was silently screaming. This, I remember
Read More »