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fromConsequence
1 day ago

Alice Cooper Performs Surprise Cover of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

Alice Cooper performed a surprise cover of Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' at his annual Coopstock festival.
#girl-trouble
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fromPitchfork
5 days ago

Girl Trouble Return With First Album in 23 Years

Girl Trouble returns to K Records for their first album in 23 years, titled 'As Is', releasing on June 26.
Music
fromBrooklynVegan
1 week ago

Girl Trouble announce first album 23 years: hear "Make It Mine"

Girl Trouble announces their first new album 'As Is' since 2003, featuring songs recorded over 15 years, releasing on June 26.
#foo-fighters
Music
fromBrooklynVegan
2 months ago

Foo Fighters preview new songs

Foo Fighters are teasing a new album with singles and website snippets while announcing an extensive 2026 tour of festivals, stadiums, and North American dates.
Music
fromConsequence
2 months ago

New Foo Fighters Album Is Finished, Dave Grohl Confirms

Foo Fighters finished a new album and will release it before January 14, 2026.
London music
fromConsequence
4 days ago

Foo Fighters Unveil New Song "Of All People"

Foo Fighters released the single 'Of All People' from their upcoming album 'Your Favorite Toy', set to unveil on April 24th.
Music
fromBrooklynVegan
3 weeks ago

Foo Fighters share new single "Caught in the Echo"

Foo Fighters' new album 'Your Favorite Toy' features garage rock and includes the track 'Caught in the Echo'.
SOMA, SF
fromMail Online
6 days ago

Kurt Cobain death mystery reignites over 3 clues challenging ruling

Kurt Cobain's death investigation is claimed to have been mishandled, raising questions about the suicide ruling.
fromConsequence
6 days ago

"World's Fastest Drummer" Plays Soundgarden Classic as He Hears It for First Time

Merlini is the current holder of the fastest hands on the planet. He's been measured at performing 400bpm single stroke rolls and over 300bpm with his bare hands, which is beyond blistering to those not in the know.
Music production
Photography
fromAol
1 week ago

31 photos that show what life looked like in 1985

1985 was characterized by iconic pop culture, fashion, and childhood experiences captured in everyday life through photographs.
Writing
fromSilicon Canals
1 week ago

The generation raised between 1960 and 1979 wasn't given resilience as a tangible concept - they were given broken bikes, difficult parents, tight budgets, and long summers with nothing to do, which turned out to be the same thing - Silicon Canals

Learning resilience comes from necessity and hands-on experience, not from formal instruction or discussions.
Digital life
fromBuzzFeed
1 week ago

22 Still-Popular Things That Older People Thought Would Just Be "Quick Fads"

Certain trends and cultural phenomena have persisted far beyond initial expectations of being mere fads.
SF music
fromSFGATE
1 week ago

The 'Jesus of Cool' returns to rock San Francisco

Nick Lowe has a long-standing affection for San Francisco, performing there since the late 1970s and cherishing his memories of the city.
#punk-rock
London music
fromPitchfork
1 week ago

Generation X: Generation X

Big Ben's explosion in 1976 marked a cultural shift, coinciding with the rise of punk rock and Generation X's emergence in music.
London music
fromPitchfork
1 week ago

Generation X: Generation X

Big Ben's explosion in 1976 marked a cultural shift, coinciding with the rise of punk rock and Generation X's emergence in music.
Music
fromBrooklynVegan
1 week ago

Jejune announce first US shows in 25+ years & Numero Group box set

Jejune's catalogue is reissued in the Wait A Lifetime box set, featuring albums, singles, and a booklet, with shows planned in the US.
Music production
fromThe Atlantic
1 week ago

The Album That Made Me Fall Back in Love With Heavy Metal

Personal evolution in music taste leads to a renewed appreciation for metal through Neurosis's innovative sound.
Digital life
fromBuzzFeed
2 weeks ago

People Over 50 Are Sharing What Was "Normal" In The '70s, And Gen Z Would Lose Their Minds

The 1970s featured unique cultural norms and practices that seem unbelievable today, from social behaviors to household items.
fromOpen Culture
2 weeks ago

When Soviet Youth Bootlegged Western Rock Music on Discarded XRays: Hear Original Audio Samples

Before the availability of the tape recorder and during the 1950s, when vinyl was scarce, ingenious Russians began recording banned bootleg jazz, boogie woogie and rock 'n' roll on exposed X-ray film salvaged from hospital waste bins and archives.
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Humor
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago

Shaun Ryder on highs, lows and Happy Mondays: Heroin isn't a party drug you can't just do it at the weekend'

Shaun Ryder's memoir reveals how neurodiversity connected Happy Mondays members, with the band's chaotic energy defining an era through magnetic excess and authenticity.
#courtney-love
Music
fromConsequence
1 week ago

Courtney Love Urges Dave Grohl to "Man Up" and "Just Say We're Cool"

Courtney Love urges Dave Grohl to publicly acknowledge their reconciliation to stop harassment from his fans.
Music
fromConsequence
1 week ago

Courtney Love Urges Dave Grohl to "Man Up" and "Just Say We're Cool"

Courtney Love urges Dave Grohl to publicly acknowledge their reconciliation to stop harassment from his fans.
Digital life
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Young people are longing for the low-tech 90s and so would I, if I could only remember them

Embracing 90s nostalgia encourages disconnecting from technology to experience life more fully and invites serendipity.
Writing
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

The male ego is even more fragile than it ever was': Kim Gordon on shyness, AI and Zohran Mamdani's cool

Sonic Youth focused on creating unprecedented music by studying influential predecessors like the Velvet Underground and no wave bands, then pursuing innovation without long-term planning, allowing creative direction to emerge organically.
Photography
fromAnOther
3 weeks ago

Melissa Auf der Maur's Memoir Chronicles the 90s Alternative Rock Scene

Melissa Auf der Maur's memoir chronicles her experiences as bassist in Hole and Smashing Pumpkins during the 1990s alternative rock era, exploring addiction, loss, and her protective relationships with musicians.
fromSFGATE
3 weeks ago

Four Bay Area tweens made an album in 2000. 25 years later, it became a hit.

'We had a few songs that we were like, 'These are really good, these are genius, and we are the Spice Girls slash Destiny's Child,' said singer Ayden Mayeri in the documentary, on which she served as director.
Music production
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

In Bloom by Liz Allan review an electric debut of grunge and teen spirit

Three teenage girls in 1994 Australia investigate a sexual assault accusation against their music teacher to save their band's chance at a Battle of the Bands competition.
Writing
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago

I watched society burn a woman at the stake': Melissa Auf der Maur on her bandmate Courtney Love and the farce of the 90s

Melissa Auf der Maur kept her father's assisted death secret for 25 years before revealing it in her memoir about her rock music career in the 1990s.
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

Coach's former CEO said Gen Z is most similar to the 60s generation

So I've seen generations change, and Gen Z is the generation that's most similar to my generation, the sixties. They're very value-driven. They're concerned with climate, they're concerned with authenticity, truth, being who they are, and relationships.
Fashion & style
NYC music
fromBrooklynVegan
1 month ago

Dinosaur Jr., JAMC, Blonde Redhead, Meat Puppets, Julie, TAGABOW & more playing Total Bummer at Knockdown Center

Total Bummer festival in NYC features established alt-rock acts like Dinosaur Jr. and The Jesus and Mary Chain alongside emerging punk, shoegaze, and experimental artists across May 30-31 at Knockdown Center.
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago

We did Disneyland on mind-altering substances': Primus frontman Les Claypool on being rock's great joker and why Metallica rejected him

I was too embarrassed to sing in my apartment, he says on a video call. But my roommate at the time was dating the preacher's daughter, and had keys to the church across the street. In the dead of night, the madcap bassist and singer took his recording equipment to the empty church, set up on the podium, and first sang his anti-war song Too Many Puppies.
Music production
Music
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

The most stunningly awful wonderful record': how the Shaggs became rock's most divisive band

Austin Wiggin Jr. forced his daughters, the Shaggs, into a strict musical regime, leading to unexpected fame despite their unconventional style.
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

What's a Gen X to Do?

Beleaguered Louvre president Laurence des Cars quits after a historic heist under her watch. The next morning, a new leader is announced. It's Christophe Leribault from the Palace of Versailles, a true museum animal who ran a few during his career.
Arts
Apple
fromEntrepreneur
1 month ago

This Nostalgic Apple Product Is Making a Major Comeback - and You Can Thank Gen Z For It

Gen Z and young adults are purchasing used iPods to escape streaming fatigue and own their music libraries, with prices rising 60% since 2023 and search interest increasing 8% year-over-year.
Music
fromConsequence
3 weeks ago

Failure Unveil Grungy Gothic New Single "A Way Down"

Failure's new single 'A Way Down' showcases a shift towards a gothic atmosphere, influenced by The Cure and Siouxsie & The Banshees.
Music
fromConsequence
4 weeks ago

Pearl Jam's Mike McCready Announces Graphic Novel and Rock Opera Album

Mike McCready releases a graphic novel and rock opera album titled Farewell to Seasons exploring Seattle's 1980s music scene and grunge's impact on artists.
fromBrooklynVegan
1 month ago

What "tour" are Hole's Courtney Love & Melissa Auf der Maur teasing?

I wanted her voice because it's robustly an octave over mine. It's surprisingly, to me, more robust and embodied now than it was in '98, when they recorded Celebrity Skin, Hole's Grammy-nominated third album. Silver, tinkling, all the things I can't do. We're perfect together.
London music
#nostalgia
fromConsequence
2 months ago

Fred Armisen to Host CNN Series Delving Into Nirvana, GN'R, and Other Universal Music Artists

The untitled music docuserieswill give fans an unprecedented, behind-the-scenes look into Universal Music Group's vaults, which form the world's largest music archives... With Armisen as their dynamic and knowledgeable host, viewers will explore pivotal moments in pop culture, and the stories of the iconic artists and songwriters who changed the course of history. UMG's archives include a massive, highly secure vault within the Iron Mountain facility in Boyers, Pennsylvania, located 220 feet underground in a former limestone mine.
Television
Music production
fromConsequence
1 month ago

Billy Corgan Believes Rock Music Was "Purposely Dialed Down" in Late '90s

Rock music was deliberately diminished in mainstream culture starting in the late 1990s, replaced by rap and later pop, despite remaining commercially dominant in ticket sales.
SF music
fromSFGATE
1 month ago

His band defined 1990s indie rock. In SF, he reclaims a singular voice.

Stephen Malkmus, a founding member of Pavement, continues to define alternative rock as a solo artist and bandleader while maintaining relevance across three decades through evolving musical projects.
#1980s
fromBrooklynVegan
1 month ago

Pearl Jam's Mike Creedy announces new graphic novel & rock opera (exclusive vinyl)

McCready's story captures the drive and sense of community that forged the powerful backbone of the Seattle music scene of the 1980s, as their world changed forever with the explosion of grunge in the '90s. Farewell to Seasons unflinchingly shows the brutal cost it had for so many artists and musicians as it captures the lived experience of that seminal era.
Music
Television
fromOpen Culture
2 months ago

MTV Rewind Lets You Revisit 40,000 Music Videos & Commercials from the Golden Age of MTV

MTV Rewind preserves about 40,000 classic MTV music videos and recreates era- and program-specific playlists so audiences can relive MTV's video era.
NYC music
fromFar Out Magazine
1 month ago

Kim Gordon's favourite New York songs

Kim Gordon's return to New York immersed her in the city's no-wave and punk scenes, directly shaping Sonic Youth's early experimental sound.
Digital life
fromHer Campus
2 months ago

It's the Feeling, Not the Clothes: Nostalgia for 2016

Many people nostalgically long for 2016's simpler social media culture and sense of peace before political upheaval, the COVID-19 pandemic, and widespread generative AI.
Music
fromBrooklynVegan
1 month ago

Garbage's Shirley Manson talks "insane" touring economics, viral beach ball fiasco in new interview

Garbage completed their final North American headline tour, revealing that 40 shows generated equivalent revenue to just 10 strategically-located shows, highlighting the unsustainable economics of touring.
Digital life
fromBuzzFeed
2 months ago

23 Things That Were So Common During The '90s That Are Basically Extinct Today

Everyday 1990s practices like meeting at airport gates, calling Moviefone, and leaving doors unlocked have largely disappeared due to security and technological change.
Music
fromBrooklynVegan
1 month ago

Courtney Love says "no Hole reunion"

Courtney Love clarified that Hole will not reunite, though she and Melissa Auf der Maur are collaborating on new solo material and shows scheduled for 2026.
Music
fromConsequence
1 month ago

Courtney Love Teases Hole Reunion Tour with Melissa Auf der Maur

Courtney Love teases a Hole reunion tour potentially featuring bassist Melissa Auf der Maur, their first shows together in over a decade.
Music
fromBrooklynVegan
1 month ago

AFI's Jade Puget reunites with Redemption 87 bandmates in new hardcore band on Revelation Records (listen)

Jade Puget reunites with former Redemption 87 bandmates to form Birdlegs, releasing debut album Visions Beyond The Ape Cave on Revelation Records in April, blending youth crew hardcore with contemporary influences.
Music
fromFuncheap
2 months ago

90s + 00s Alt-Rock with Audiorage at St. James Gate

Live 1990s–2000s alternative rock night featuring covers of The Strokes, Green Day, Hole, Paramore, Offspring, Rage Against the Machine, System of a Down; Belmont address provided.
Music
fromBrooklynVegan
2 months ago

10 Classic Albums That Influenced Nu Metal

Nu metal has been re-evaluated as an important, influential fusion genre drawing heavily from alternative, industrial, and hardcore, and its roots extend beyond metal.
fromBrooklynVegan
2 months ago

Chat Pile release Sub Pop single with Nirvana cover

It's a true dream to put out a single on Sub Pop, and our new song 'Masks' hopefully honors the spirit of the mythical, sometimes mystical, city of Seattle. Thanks in part to the movie Hype, we have long been obsessed with Seattle, the American underground of the late '80s, and Sub Pop and their tools of world domination. Everything we learned about packaging Chat Pile, we learned from Sub Pop co-founders Jonathan Poneman and Bruce Pavitt.
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fromDocumentjournal
1 month ago

Bootsy Holler's lost photos of Seattle's teen underground

Bootsy Holler's photographs document Seattle's post-grunge youth scene (1992–2004), capturing underage nightlife, DIY parties, and emerging bands like Death Cab for Cutie.
fromVulture
2 months ago

When Is a Band Not the Same Band Anymore?

"When I read the fine print, it was 'an experience with REO Speedwagon's music.' It's none of the original members," Fletcher recalls. "I don't want to promote the show unless it's the real thing. I don't know why you would want to see that. It's just a cover band. To me, that's a little bit strange." He adds, with a sigh, "If there are no original members, who cares?"
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fromConsequence
2 months ago

Smashing Pumpkins Announce 35th Anniversary Vinyl Reissue of Debut Album Gish

The Smashing Pumpkins are releasing a 35th anniversary 180-gram vinyl reissue of debut album Gish on May 29 with special color variants and original packaging.
Music
fromFast Company
1 month ago

This classic MTV website goes where Netflix dare not venture

MTV's last music-only stations closed December 31, 2025, but online services like MTV Rewind recreate the vintage music-video TV experience.
#mariah-carey
fromPitchfork
2 months ago

Sugar Are Going on Their First Tour in 30 Years

Sugar, the alt-rock band Bob Mould formed after Hüsker Dü 's split, announced last fall that they were reuniting for just two London and New York shows in May 2026. Now that those concerts sold out, Sugar have plotted an entire tour to celebrate their big return - their first in over 30 years. The Love You Even Still 2026 World Tour is a doozy, bringing the '90s alt-rock band across Europe and North America. Check out their complete list of tour dates below.
Music
fromLos Angeles Times
1 month ago

How Megadeth's Dave Mustaine went from thrash metal outsider to finally conquering the charts

After he woke up on Sunday, Feb. 1, Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine got out of bed and went into the kitchen of his home in Franklin, Tenn. He downed a variety of health and wellness liquids and supplements, then picked up his phone and noticed a text from his son, Justis, who works at the band's management company. It read, "We're number one!!!"
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

What do I play at a party? Oasis's Wonderwall goes down a storm': Alex James's honest playlist

A personal playlist of formative songs showing childhood memories, karaoke favorites, guilty pleasures, and music that inspired learning bass and shaped musical taste.
Music
fromSFGATE
2 months ago

Oakland's Mosswood Meltdown festival announces two punk legends as headliners

Mosswood Meltdown returns July 18–19, 2026 in Oakland, headlined by Iggy Pop and Bikini Kill with John Waters as emcee, emphasizing punk roots.
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