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April 4, 2012
KURT'S SPIRIT
A 15-minute photo session that will last forever
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September 28, 2011
R.E.M.'s Reckoning
The band closes the book on their legacy
Blogs
September 28, 2011
Beavis, Butt-Head, And Sagat Bid Farewell To Andy Rooney
Yesterday 60 Minutes curmudgeon Andy Rooney announced that he would be retiring from his weekly segment of wondering about the annoying things in life. Here is a clip from Beavis And Butt-Head where the two imminently returning couch potatoes do their best "Mickey" Rooney impersonations over "Funk D ... More >>
Blogs
December 21, 2010
Watch Kathleen Hanna Sing "Smells Like Teen Spirit" And "Rebel Girl" At Joe's Pub Last Week
Kathleen Hanna is slowly creeping back into the limelight -- a few nights after taking the stage during her own star-studded tribute show at the Knitting Factory, the Riot Grrrl luminary/semi-recluse showed up at an Our Hit Parade fete at Joe's Pub for a long, rambling, thoroughly engrossing ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 10, 2010
LET IT RAIN
The 'godmothers of grunge' rock MOMA
Blogs
August 30, 2010
Gucci Mane, DMC, Andrew W.K., Cool Kids, Big Freedia, Tim Harrington, And Doug E. Fresh Played The Last Jelly Pool Party, Possibly Ever
And so it ends, the fifth and most calamitous season of Jelly Pool Parties, with a finale abruptly canceled and grudgingly reinstated, in the end overloaded with a semi-secret parade of random-ass rappers, semi-secretly headlined by your friend and mine Gucci Mane. Never has the line "I don't wear ... More >>
Blogs
July 23, 2010
Is Taylor Momsen the Next Lindsay Lohan?
She smokes and curses. She's bored with men and likes her vibrator. She says she wants to be the next Kurt Cobain. I think she's great! (Except for the smoking.) But the linked abcnews.com article discusses whether Gossip Girl's Taylor Momsen might be hinting at behavior that could make her ... More >>
Blogs
June 21, 2010
10 Magnificent Discoveries from Behind the Music: Courtney Love
The nakedly turbulent narrative structure of VH1's Behind The Music was invented for Courtney Love. In fact, everything with her is behind the music. So when the hippie spawn who once fronted Faith No More (true story) and auditioned for the Mickey Mouse Club by reading Sylvia Plath (a piece about ... More >>
Blogs
February 19, 2010
Let's End This Week On A High Note, i.e. With The Video For Paramore's "The Only Exception"
Very sweet. Not much to add except a) her (briefly glimpsed) bandmates seem somber because they're aware of their own imminent obsolescence (great band name!), and b) Haley Williams somehow always comes dangerously close to reminding me of Kurt Cobain but then, happily, actually does not.
Blogs
January 14, 2010
Courtney Love Busy, Nude
We were beginning to consider her reclusive, but Courtney Love has recently been a whirlwind of activity. She is starting up the band Hole again -- albeit with no other original members, though Melissa Auf du Maur may be involved in some way -- and will debut it on February 17 at Shepherd's B ... More >>
Blogs
November 25, 2009
F2K: The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s
Since this archive page mysteriously disappeared over at its original home, consider this your new bookmark/placeholder/friend on late, lonely nights. Confused? More here. It's super-cute to peruse decade-end lists and pretend to be enthusiastic about true artists like Arcade Fire, timeless m ... More >>
Voice Choices
October 13, 2009
The Raincoats
Since this archive page mysteriously disappeared over at its original home, consider this your new bookmark/placeholder/friend on late, lonely nights. Confused? More here. It's super-cute to peruse decade-end lists and pretend to be enthusiastic about true artists like Arcade Fire, timeless m ... More >>
Music
September 15, 2009
In Defense of Pearl Jam's Backspacer
Seattle's second-favorite sons gamely redefine their Target audience
Voice Choices
September 15, 2009
'Blackened Music Series'
Seattle's second-favorite sons gamely redefine their Target audience
Blogs
September 10, 2009
In Honor of Courtney Love's Twitter Threats to Sue Activision over Kurt Cobain's Guitar Hero Avatar, I Have Seared My Retinas Gathering 15 of Her Finest Tweets
Courtney Love posted this googly-eyed picture of her in bed with a turtle on her head to Twitter. Somehow she was surprised when it ended up in a UK tabloid. Gun, meet these fish in a barrel. Courtney Love's public missives have always been an endless source of voyeuristic entertainment, from her a ... More >>
Blogs
September 2, 2009
News Roundup: Kurt Cobain Turned Guitar Hero Zombie, Aziz Ansari Remixes Kanye and Jay-Z, and That New LCD Soundsystem Record Sounds Crazy
-Someone--presumably, Courtney Love--not only licensed the likeness of onetime living person Kurt Cobain to Guitar Hero 5, but also signed off making him an unlockable, playable character. The upshot? The horrendous video above, in which Cobain is helplessly piloted through Flavor Flav karaoke, Bi ... More >>
Blogs
April 8, 2009
Follow Up: This Week in the Voice
We had a little trouble getting the Voice online this week, and we hope you didn't miss any of the great stuff in the issue. Like our former music editor Chuck Eddy's consideration of some contemporary male country singers and their new style of shit-kicking. Or J. Hoberman's review of Observe an ... More >>
Blogs
February 6, 2009
2009 Creepiest Commercial Awards
Commercials are growing creepier. Some devolution is easy to trace; 1990's Viagra ads begat modern "male enhancement" commercials, and mid-80's Teddy Ruxpin ads begat Charmin's current war on dingleberries. But from what market-tested pathology sprang BK's intentionally disturbing 'stalker' ads? ... More >>
Blogs
August 18, 2008
Too Much, Too Soon, Two-Headed Turtle
Commercials are growing creepier. Some devolution is easy to trace; 1990's Viagra ads begat modern "male enhancement" commercials, and mid-80's Teddy Ruxpin ads begat Charmin's current war on dingleberries. But from what market-tested pathology sprang BK's intentionally disturbing 'stalker' ads? ... More >>
Blogs
April 14, 2008
Everybody Get Psyched for Those Replacements Reissues
Commercials are growing creepier. Some devolution is easy to trace; 1990's Viagra ads begat modern "male enhancement" commercials, and mid-80's Teddy Ruxpin ads begat Charmin's current war on dingleberries. But from what market-tested pathology sprang BK's intentionally disturbing 'stalker' ads? ... More >>
Blogs
January 7, 2008
Hugs and Kisses #25: Kate Nash Interview, Part 2
Commercials are growing creepier. Some devolution is easy to trace; 1990's Viagra ads begat modern "male enhancement" commercials, and mid-80's Teddy Ruxpin ads begat Charmin's current war on dingleberries. But from what market-tested pathology sprang BK's intentionally disturbing 'stalker' ads? ... More >>
Film
September 25, 2007
In the Dark with Kurt Cobain
The voice of a generation talks like a regular guy in About a Son
NYC Life
July 18, 2006
Thursday 7/27
The voice of a generation talks like a regular guy in About a Son
Music
December 27, 2005
Re-Issues
Jonathan Davis deposits a psychodramatic coil of Matricized industrial in your earhole
Screens
October 25, 2005
Cobain Bio a Brilliant Narcotic Fog
Jonathan Davis deposits a psychodramatic coil of Matricized industrial in your earhole
Specials
October 18, 2005
No Future
Kurt Cobain's Final Denial
Specials
October 18, 2005
Culture Clash
'86–'95: From Evangelicals to Trannies, the First Gulf War to Tupac Shakur
Film
July 12, 2005
End of the Road
Lightness of being: Van Sant's existential Kurt Cobain movie is an opaque masterpiece
Film
July 5, 2005
Déjà Vu
All his cowboys get the blues: The shambolic, iconic Van Santian hero dies young, again
Film
July 5, 2005
His Own Private Biopic
Gus Van Sant resurrects the ever enigmatic Kurt Cobain with a lyrical blast from the avant-garde
Film
July 5, 2005
Celebrity Skinned
Blake placid: A former 'Dawson's Creek' star tackles a mythic musician with willful incoherence
Film
July 5, 2005
All This Useless Beauty
Absence of presence: Arty Last Days misses out on Cobain's populist passion
Music
July 5, 2005
Never More
The death of a hometown antihero: Ann Powers reports from Seattle on the suicide of Kurt Cobain
Books
April 13, 2004
Milk It
About a girl: Did Courtney Love really kill Kurt? Ten years later, we may or may not care.
Music
January 13, 2004
Public Enemies
Dancehall sushi-haters give up on a military discharge
Art
February 11, 2003
The View
Landscape, Secondhand and Otherwise
Music
January 21, 2003
Big With the Kids
Corporate Rock-Hack Bands Nobody Over 20 Ever Heard of Rule America
Books
October 29, 2002
Territorial Pissings
Corporate Rock-Hack Bands Nobody Over 20 Ever Heard of Rule America
Music
September 17, 2002
Hung With Guitar String
Corporate Rock-Hack Bands Nobody Over 20 Ever Heard of Rule America
Music
September 18, 2001
Ghost Dance
It’s a Bomber, It’s a Bomber, It’s a Bomber
Music
May 29, 2001
Cocaine Yes, Cobain No
It’s a Bomber, It’s a Bomber, It’s a Bomber
Film
November 14, 2000
Come As You Are
It’s a Bomber, It’s a Bomber, It’s a Bomber
Theater
September 28, 1999
The Dead End Kids
It’s a Bomber, It’s a Bomber, It’s a Bomber
Music
June 2, 1998
Citizen Corgan
It’s a Bomber, It’s a Bomber, It’s a Bomber
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