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Cobain loved them, Tarantino used them... then came the drug-fuelled downfall — MOJO

The Pleasure Principle At the height of Nirvana’s ascendancy, Urge Overkill were a Kurt Cobain-endorsed, Albini-produced acrylic flash of ’70s soul-stylings and Cheap Trick rock optimism. Then heroin, gangs and guns were added to the equation. Keith Cameron looks back on their short, stylish reign. Urge Overkill (l-r): Eddie “King” Roeser, Nash Kato and Blackie Onassis, Los Angeles, 1995. IN LATE 1991, JUST AS SMELLS like teen spirit was lighting a fire under the world, Nirvana toured the US and

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Apple Music - Web Player

Apple Music - Web Player

Louder

Eric Burdon: the hellraiser who had it all and then lost it | Louder

Eric Burdon's career spanned from leading The Animals through their British Invasion hits in the mid-1960s to fronting the funk band War and enduring a tumultuous solo career marked by legal disputes, band feuds, and personal tragedy. The piece chronicles his immersion in 1960s counterculture—his acid use, friendships with Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, and role as a cultural intermediary between British and American music scenes—while documenting how mismanagement, contractual disputes, and internal conflict fractured his various projects and left him bitter for decades. By 2013, after a back operation and creative renewal, Burdon had achieved a measure of peace with his chaotic past and recognized his luck in having witnessed and participated in the transformative moments of postwar popular music.

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Shameika by Fiona Apple on Apple Music

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Fiona Apple's fifth album, recorded alone in her Los Angeles home over eight years, channels anxiety and claustrophobia through a deliberately lo-fi sound dominated by live drums and minimal production that somehow feels perfectly timed for pandemic isolation. The album strips away the lush arrangements of her previous work, replacing them with raw percussion and Apple's characteristically sharp, unflinching lyrics that blend personal rage with societal anger without sacrificing wit or playfulness.

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Apple Music - Web Player

Apple Music - Web Player

Apple Music - Web Player

Consequence

U2 Release Cover of The Pogues’ "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah" for Shane MacGowan Tribute Album

U2 have shared their contribution to the upcoming Shane MacGowan tribute record "20th Century Paddy," a cover of The Pogues' "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah," out via the album on November 13th. The Edge accompanies the release with a statement framing MacGowan as a figure of deliberate contradiction, comparing him to John B. Keane and The Clash and invoking Wilde's line about masks revealing more than faces. The compilation also boasts Springsteen liner notes plus tracks from Hozier/Jessie Buckley, Tom Waits, Glen Hansard, and Dropkick Murphys, whose "The Body of an American" cover already dropped in June.

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Apple Music - Web Player

Run-Around by Blues Traveler on Apple Music

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Blues Traveler's 1994 breakthrough album Four transformed John Popper's harmonica virtuosity into pop radio gold with the hit "Run-Around," while the band balanced commercial appeal with genuine jam-band ambitions through tracks that referenced Grateful Dead and Allman Brothers influences. Despite lacking the adventurism of those predecessors, Four established itself as one of the era's defining classic-rock releases, particularly through songs like "Hook," which self-consciously examines the mechanics of mainstream success, and instrumentally rich cuts like "Brother John" and "The Mountains Win Again."

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kottke.org

Dolly Parton and Kermit the Frog Sing Everyday People (1987)

I don't see a saved article here to summarize. What you've shared appears to be a kottke.org post about a clip from Dolly Parton's late 1980s variety show in which she performed "Everyday People" with Kermit the Frog. If you'd like me to summarize this post, the content is already quite brief: it documents a musical performance featuring Dolly Parton and the Muppet character, provides links to watch the clip on multiple platforms, and notes that the full episode is available on YouTube with several guest stars. If you meant to share a different article for me to summarize, please paste the text and I'll be happy to help.

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Apple Music - Web Player

Apple Music - Web Player

Apple Music - Web Player

Sugalumps by Flight of the Conchords on Apple Music

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Flight of the Conchords' second album turns genre parody into its own art form, with targets specific enough to land but songs sturdy enough to survive without the reference points. The piece singles out the Black Eyed Peas, R. Kelly, and Sting send-ups as proof the duo skewer with affection rather than contempt, treating "Too Many Dicks (On the Dance Floor)" as the album's purest distillation of that fond mockery.

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Old Crow Medicine Show

Tour — Old Crow Medicine Show

I don't see any article content to summarize in what you've provided. The text appears to be navigation elements and footer information from the Old Crow Medicine Show website (Home, Tour, Store, Music, About, Hartland Hootenanny, Newsletter, and copyright information). To write a summary, I would need the actual article text or content. Could you please share the article you'd like me to summarize?

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VICE

4 No-Skip Grunge Albums Turning 35

Marking the 35th anniversary in 2026, this piece rounds up four grunge landmarks all released within months of each other in 1991 — Nirvana's Nevermind, Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger, Temple of the Dog's lone self-titled record, and Pearl Jam's Ten — tracing how the Seattle scene's interconnected musicians and chart trajectories turned grunge from a regional sound into the decade's defining genre. It's essentially a nostalgia/listening-guide piece, worth keeping as a quick reference on the lineage and chart performance behind that pivotal year, plus the trivia linking the bands (Vedder auditioning via Temple of the Dog, shared members, single release order).

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