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Temple of the Dog joke at 2:30. (Note: The record guy is Isaac...

Temple of the Dog joke at 2:30. (Note: The record guy is Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse.)

"[Madonna] said, 'Okay, I'll see you guys tomorrow. And you, stay'—or 'Why don't..."

"[Madonna] said, 'Okay, I'll see you guys tomorrow. And you, stay'—or 'Why don't you stick around for a little bit?' It could have been for a cup of coffee, but you know exactly what she was talking about. I said, 'Look, you know I can't stay. I've got a show at Madison Square Garden tomorrow that I'm nervous as hell about. I'm going to bed.' If I'd have been single I would've been like, 'Sure,' but the girl I was dating at the time I was crazy about—and she happened to be Madonna and Freddy ...

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"This band started putting up posters that were just...

"This band started putting up posters that were just hilarious. One was MR. EPP AND THE CALCULATIONS: GREATER, BIGGER, LOUDER THAN THE GRATEFUL DEAD. Some of their other great taglines were LOUSIER THAN BOB DYLAN and LESS CREATIVE THAN JOHN CAGE.

"Dennis White and I were watching these flyers go up and we're like, 'We gotta figure out who these guys are.' But there was no phone number on the flyers, no dates. And one day we were walking down First Avenue, and we saw some kids putting up a...

Malfunkshun (featuring new singer Jeff Loftis) - "Rains of...

Malfunkshun (featuring new singer Jeff Loftis) - "Rains of May"

"And Frances said her mother's chaotic behaviour was the reason for the death of two family..."

"And Frances said her mother's chaotic behaviour was the reason for the death of two family pets. She said her cat died after getting entangled in piles of Etsy fabrics, boxes of paperwork, trash and other possessions, while a dog died allegedly after swallowing a pile of Love's pills."

- excerpt from the Daily Mail story "'She killed the family pets': Frances Bean Cobain slams mum Courtney Love's bizarre behaviour in damning testimony"; the revelation comes from this ebook

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"ATTENTION! NEW DATES!" "Tickets remain valid!...

"ATTENTION! NEW DATES!" "Tickets remain valid! Remaining tickets on sale!"

"Kurt said he was canceling the rest of the shows because he had laryngitis. While we're still in Europe, they're reporting that Kurt Cobain ODs. Accidental overdose. Took a bunch of pills. But the shows were getting rebooked. They were advertising it on TV over there! On MTV! We even saw posters about them being rebooked. And we're just thinking, That's really weird. Those shows are already getting rebooked after this ...

"I don't really think in terms of race, mostly because I grew up in a middle- to upper- class black..."

"I don't really think in terms of race, mostly because I grew up in a middle- to upper- class black family and we had the biggest house in our town in New Hampshire. I've always been treated like a white person, basically. But there was one night that made me feel a little bit weird; it might've been when Love Battery played one of those packaged shows—a "nine for the '90s" show—at the Paramount. The Paramount's pretty big, and out of all those people I was the only one, besides maybe some ja...

Artist and musician Mike Kelley, who created the artwork for...

Artist and musician Mike Kelley, who created the artwork for Sonic Youth's album Dirty, was found dead today, an apparent suicide. He was 57.