‘Poetry doesn’t mean flowers and trees and bunnies and stuff’ – Mike IX Williams Punk is an approach, not a destination. It’s an ethos rather than a rulebook. But that’s an ideological debate that’s been present almost since its inception. ...
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‘I’ve been hell on the women in my life, and the women in my life have been hell on me’ – Axl Rose One upon a time there was a band who, for their second album proper, decided to lay ...
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‘Teenage angst has paid off well/Now I’m bored and old’ So arrived Kurt Cobain’s disinterested sneer on what was to become Nirvana’s final studio statement. In the wake of the band’s monster-selling second album Nevermind – and breakout single ‘Smells ...
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