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Father John Misty. The public will love someone that will not to love ’em back

February 25, 2018October 20, 2019Edward 1

Father John Misty’s consistent success proves two things. The songwriter is talented and versatile. And the public loves a good joke, even if they’re the butt of it. [...]

Singers That Started Out By Playing A Different Instrument (part 1)

May 5, 2016May 5, 2016Edward Comment

This is a list of notable singers that did not start making music in the role of lead singer. The musicians listed here [...]

Kurt Cobain speaking about Os Mutantes

April 23, 2016Edward Comment

Os Mutantes is one of the most interesting psychedelic rock bands of the 1960’s. The group was especially important for the counterculture movement [...]

Weird Rock Star Action Figures

March 12, 2016April 8, 2020Edward Comment

The crafting of action figures is a business that normally focuses on the assumed physical likeness of world-famous comic book superheroes. These are [...]

kurt cobain, nirvana, band who covered leadbelly

Nirvana and the Screaming Trees planned a Leadbelly covers album

February 22, 2016April 14, 2020Edward Comment

First of all, it never actually happened. But it almost did. In the summer of 1989 Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic of Nirvana [...]

The Half Japanese method of playing guitar

February 21, 2016May 26, 2020Edward Comment

Half Japanese, indie rock darlings, collaborators of Daniel Johnston, an inspiration for Kurt Cobain constructed an innovative method for guitar playing. [...]

How Losing my religion got R.E.M. to sell 30 million records | Alt77 - Musicians that declined political endorsements (part 2)

[…] although this is merely speculation, the lyrics to R.E.M.‘s Losing my religion, detail the band’s own slow rise. Formed…

How Losing my religion got R.E.M. to sell 30 million records | Alt77 - R.E.M.’s misheard lyrics

[…] R.E.M. had built their reputation on an exuberant, yet poetic sound, complemented by Michael Stipe’s cryptic lyrics, fittingly, the…

Wrong place, right time: At the Drive-In | Alt77 - Wrong place, right time: Fat White Family

[…] the series, we remember the time that television was kind enough to bring At the Drive-In to the world.…

Wrong place, right time: Fat White Family | Alt77 - Wrong place, right time: At the Drive-In

[…] was David Letterman‘s last season of late night. So, he must have thought to himself he might as well…

How Loser made Beck into an overnight alternative rock spokesperson | Alt77 - Beck at his most popcentric on new album Hyperspace

[…] Beck’s following albums, as varied as his early work, were met favorably by critics and seemed to expand his…