Mark Yarm's Blog, page 765
August 10, 2011
August 9, 2011
eHow.com: How to Write Grunge Lyrics
eHow.com: How to Write Grunge Lyrics:
STEP ONE: Decide what you wish to write your song about…. Possible sources of inspiration are people's tendency to selfishness or arrogance, and the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of society as a whole.
Urban Outfitters' puzzling Cobain Collection
Urban Outfitters (Europe and U.K. only, it appears) has a new Cobain Collection, though very little of it seems the least bit Cobain-y.
"In London, we'd done some demos for Stoner Witch, and we were doing a record—a bunch of weird..."
"In London, we'd done some demos for Stoner Witch, and we were doing a record—a bunch of weird stuff—at the same time. We were going to call the record Kurt Cobain. Yeah, in big letters: KURT COBAIN. And in small letters, underneath: Melvins. A big joke. If he hadn't died, we probably would've named it that, and Kurt probably would've been okay with it, too. But after he died, we were just like, "People will think it's some tribute thing." That one ended up being called Prick, but not because...
August 8, 2011
Croatian cello duo 2CELLOS cover "Smells Like Teen...
Croatian cello duo 2CELLOS cover "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on Sirius XM Pops. Lots of instances of "cello face" in this clip.
