The 5 best selling pop-punk bands of the 90s
October 14, 2019
Few genres are as beloved by music critics as punk rock. While the genre has always shifted in and out of the underground, the 90s were a time of great commercial appeal for punk rockers. A select few crop of bands sold a colossal amount of records. Others, rarely the same…
Some bands seem destined to live forever, their music discovered and praised by every new generation. Other bands, if lucky, get a brief spell out in the sun. These are some of the bands that could have been reduced to 1960’s nostalgia, had it not been for the public…
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.
Father John Misty, brilliant songwriter, character of Josh Tillman, grammy laureate. When FJM won…
The guitar hero with a thousand faces
December 28, 2017
Alternative rock creates the same hero models over and over again. Is this natural evolution? Or, are we getting set in our ways?
The hero’s path never changes
In 1949 Joseph Campbell published The Hero with a thousand faces. The book was set to acquire fame that…
Kurt Cobain speaking about Os Mutantes
April 23, 2016
Os Mutantes is one of the most interesting psychedelic rock bands of the 1960’s. The group was especially important for the counterculture movement in their home country of Brazil. Together with musicians like Caetano Veloso or Gilberto Gil they are associated with the…
10 famous grunge bands of the 90s, you may have forgotten about
February 24, 2016
In the early 1990’s Grunge or “the Seattle Sound” dominated the airwaves, saturated MTV and then got copied into the rock music style still featured in the mainstream today. There were, of course, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Screaming…
Nirvana and the Screaming Trees planned a Leadbelly covers album
February 22, 2016
First of all, it never actually happened. But it almost did. In the summer of 1989 Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic of Nirvana and Mark Lanegan and Mark Pickerel of the Screaming Trees organized two recording sessions with the intention of recording covers of Leadbelly…