Another Rainy Saturday

Like a lot of stories from The Onion, the 1997 headline “U.S. Dept. of Retro Warns: ‘We May Be Running Out of Past,’” is rooted in a lot of fact. There are only so many bands that can reform, classic movies to be re-made, b-sides and studio outtakes to be crammed into box sets. It [...]

An important question that I don’t know the answer to: how does one respectfully pay tribute to a band whose lead singer wore a t-shirt on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine that said “Corporate magazines still suck” and tried to insist on playing a song called “Rape Me” at the MTV Video Music Awards [...]

More than most people, the New York Times likes to print that Nirvana’s album Nevermind (which turns twenty years young later this week) hitting number one in early 1992 was a watershed moment for the music industry. In some ways, it was. Popular semi-historian Sarah Vowell, reviewing bassist Krist Novoselic’s memoir in the New York [...]

Next Saturday (September 24) marks the twentieth occasion of the release of Nirvana’s groundbreaking album Nevermind. To celebrate the occasion, the Experience Music Project has a host of upcoming events, including the Sept. 20 concert in the Sky Church where tons of Seattle bands, including Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic, play the classic album. That’s long sold out [...]

Last summer, The Go-Go’s, one of my very favorite bands, were set to embark on their farewell tour. It didn’t include any stops in the Northwest, so I bought a ticket to the final show in Austin. When guitarist Jane Wiedlin injured herself hiking, the tour was canceled, and so was my interview with bassist [...]