Tag: grunge

+ bruce mcculloch, elegy, grunge, kids in the hall, music, nirvana, vigil

Kurt Cobain and Bruce McCulloch’s “Vigil”

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My musical awakening came in 1994. A friend’s brother gave me a cassette tape on Nirvana’s In Utero, and I put the tape in my Walkman and rode my bike around the neighborhood, blaring “Scentless Apprentice” and “Radio Friendly Unit Shifter” as I careened down the road. I started listening to them a few weeks before Kurt Cobain died on April 5, 1994. As with … Read More Kurt Cobain and Bruce McCulloch’s “Vigil”

+ dave ghrol, krist Noveselic, kurt cobain, nirvana

Nirvana’s “Nevermind” at 30 and Me

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Thirty years ago, on September 24, 1991, Nirvana’s Nevermind dropped like a sonic bomb into the world. I don’t remember what my thirteen-year-old self did that day, apart from go to school. I didn’t even listen to Nevermind till a few years later in 1994. Yet, I know the impact that the album and Nirvana had on my sensibilities. Nirvana introduced me to bands … Read More Nirvana’s “Nevermind” at 30 and Me

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