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Grunge Vortex – Pumpkins, Nirvana and Posies

I recently found myself going back to songs from the second album by Smashing Pumpkins, 1993’s Siamese Dream and two songs in particular, Hummer (live – above) and Mayonaise (below). Over the last few years I’ve returned to a lot of the music I listened to in the 90’s as I moved through the experiences […]

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Beyond symptoms of rebellion – A Black Flag film and Nirvana at the horizon

Watching this really wonderful documentary on the US harcore punk rock co-progenitors, By Any Means: A Brief History of Black Flag. A charming and well told story, mostly as a documentary film about the band, while also being about the attempt by its film maker Aaron Michael Thomas to make a documentary film – about […]