Nirvana
Unplugged in New York
Geffen (2007)
At the risk of sounding like a filthy hippie droning on about the sixties and how you had to be there to understand it, the same could pretty much be said for the early nineties. The eighties were discovered to be an insanely vacuous era that by the turn of the decade had started to smell like anything but teen spirit. Unbeknownst to the general populace, the souls of music fans were slowly ebbing away in the tide of MC Hammer and Michael Bolton. For those of us that didn't listen to mainstream radio, it nonetheless became exhausting to try and avoid being inundated every second of every day with such numbing pablum. For those of us looking for a change, Nirvana was the answer. Those of us that lived in the Pacific Northwest already knew who Nirvana was before "Smells Like Teen Spirit" broke over the MTV snore-waves. We already knew about The Melvins. We already knew about Soundgarden. We already knew about Mudhoney. But still, with the exception of a few us, no one really cared. A brief history lesson for those too young to remember: Nirvana changed everything. I say this without irony. I say this without … Read more
Kaada & Patton
Live
Ipecac (2007)
Has it really been three, almost four, years now since Mike Patton and John Kaada released Romances? Apparently so! Live … Read more
Make Do and Mend
We're All Just Living
Restless Minds (2007)
Don't you just hate it when an album, or in this case an EP, is marred by one or two … Read more
