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June 28, 2013
Tonight. Here’s a Megamart promo video:

Tonight. Here’s a Megamart promo video:
For sale at the Melvins’ upcoming 30th anniversary shows.

For sale at the Melvins’ upcoming 30th anniversary shows.
everybodytosafety:
Mia Zapata/ The Gits Tribute & Benefit...

Mia Zapata/ The Gits Tribute & Benefit Show on Sunday, July 7th.
It’s official! My temporary band Spit In The Well is performing two songs at the Mia Zapata/ The Gits Tribute show!
I’m so honored for this opportunity to sing Mia’s songs, and to be working with such awesome people - Eric S Riley of TIGHT LIES, Erik Cargill of my other band, and Jacob Bower of Last Great Fire. Definitely check out their other bands - very different, but both very fantastic.
If you haven’t heard o...
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‘Motherbanger (Pixies parody)’ by...

‘Motherbanger (Pixies parody)’ by Chris Morris
Not the new Pixies.
My memories of this are fond enough that I daren’t actually play it.
Somehow I’d never heard this before. It’s pretty spot-on.
Here’s the video for “Bagboy," the first new Pixies...
Here’s the video for “Bagboy," the first new Pixies song in nine years. (Note: Recently departed bassist Kim Deal is on it.) Download the MP3here.
June 27, 2013
Shirtless bros Ian MacKaye and Henry Rollins on the cover of the...

Shirtless bros Ian MacKaye and Henry Rollins on the cover of the final issue of Touch and Go zine, 1983.
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"Cobain’s role in culture today is perhaps the...

"Cobain’s role in culture today is perhaps the best example of the way death also represents a transition from personality into mythology…one suspects that Cobain would have hated the idea of himself as a rock ‘n’ roll martyr as much as he hated the idea of himself as a global megastar."
Why Is Hip-Hop (And The Rest Of Pop Culture) Still So Obsessed With Kurt Cobain?