19 years old today. When Pulp’s “This is Hardcore” hit the record stores, I was already 5 years smitten with front-man Jarvis Cocker, but this was the noise that bit me hard, and I got hooked. In fact, YGIM fell in so much love with the title track it made me realize no boy could […]
1997 Changed the Game for UK Rock
Just as Britpop came to an end, so too must the 20th anniversary Britpop celebrations. After all the Blur box sets, Suede reissues, and Menswear reappraisals, the last hurrah came this past October in the form of Mat Whitecross’ documentary Oasis: Supersonic. The film functions as a time-capsule portrait of Britpop’s 1996 peak, framing its […]
it’s morrissey, charlie brown!
music + moxie joins the Peanuts gang in their minor existential crisis on this, the 30th anniversary of The Smiths The Queen is Dead album release. Cheers!
‘The Queen is Dead’ turns 30
Thirty-seven minutes. That’s how long The Queen Is Dead allows its listeners to venture through a world of sleazy record label execs, unrequited love, regicide, suicide, organized religion, women’s bodies, dead poets, and pretty much every other theme imaginable. In ten songs on one album lasting 37 minutes, The Smiths definitively summed up the personal, […]
Reminder from Seattle!
Don’t forget to tune in online tonight for the Nevermind 20th anniversary benefit concert, with Seattle’s most notable bands playing through the groundbreaking album in it’s entirety*. You can catch the noise at Nirvana’s Livestream channel or their facebook page. The benefit event will remain available to watch for only 24 hours after it airs tonight […]
Nevermind 20 Concert News
As part of the continued celebration of indie’s 20th birthday (1 more year till we can take indie to a bar, gang!!) Nevermind will be performed live, in its entirety, at the EMP Museum on September 20th by a litany of notable Seattle bands, including one of my faves, the Prexys of the USA (peaches! […]
… ENTERTAIN US
For everyone else who still feels stupid and contagious, and remembers vividly when that feeling was exhilaratingly new. Begin forwarded message: From: Nirvana To: sesaluna Date: Jun22, 2011 6:02:45 AM PDT Subject: HERE WE ARE NOW… 20th ANNIVERSARY OF NIRVANA’S “NEVERMIND” ALBUM CELEBRATED WITH A DELUXE EDITION IN SEPTEMBER Released in September of 1991, […]
Lolla turns 20!
Hi, my name is sesaluna and as i’ve previously mentioned i am a music-festival addict…. this should be read from the bottom up