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Pardon the expression, but the music fascination and tragedy that has always lingered around grunge never seems to want to die. The “scene” that famously percolated in early-’90s Seattle lost another of its founders recently,…
Kurt Cobain would have turned 50 years old on February 20th, 2017. In that brief, less-than-three-year window between Nevermind’s release in the fall of 1991 and the Nirvana frontman’s suicide on April 5th 1994, there…
Final Rating: 9/10 I can’t imagine what it must be like for a band to have the weight of saving an entire genre on their shoulders. Especially when there are only two members. OK, resuscitating…
Photographs by Randall Vasquez. No, the world as we know it didn’t end on January 20th, although we are definitely entering uncertain times with the inauguration of Donald Trump as US President. While I try…
That is one of ten heady prognostications for 2017 by Deloitte, the globally-renowned professional services firm that recently released a list of fearless technology, media and telecommunications predictions. The sentimental music lover’s preferred way of…
Not everything was completely hopeless in 2016. In a year that will be remembered for “post-truth”s, good music was actually put out, some of it even by artists who didn’t die over the past 12…
I swear I’m not a grinch, although I have been accused of being “that guy” who believes Christmas has been overcommercialized to the point where nearly everything has lost the lustrous innocence from our childhood,…
Photo courtesy of Warner Music / Dustin Rabin If you somehow didn’t hear, metal militia warlords Metallica played an intimate Toronto show November 29th at the creakingly cozy Opera House in support of the Daily…
Wiktionary defines “supersonic” (\ˌsü-pər-ˈsä-nik\) as being greater than the speed of sound. Because really, who the $#@% quotes Webster’s any more? Come to think of it, the word’s meaning is never actually clarified in the…
