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CD Review: Alice in Chains, “Black Gives Way to Blue”

Dw. Dunphy September 27, 2009 15

When a band soldiers on with new personnel after a loss — such as, say, the overdose death of original Alice in Chains lead singer Layne Staley — the preeminent task is always to

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Book Review: “Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music”

Peter Chakerian May 11, 2009 8

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

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