HeyJared'90s backstage pass
Musings and recollections of that transitional decade from the perspective of a music industry A&R guy.
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A salute to staying power. (opens the original)
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Earlier this week, a punk supergroup of sorts called Cretin Family played a show at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in LA to celebrate the Ramones’ 50th anniversary. From what I could glean via videos it was as fun as it sounds, with Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong as the band’s frontman and Travis Barker from Blink 182 behind the kit (a new documentary about his very eventful life is wor
The Upward Trajectory of the Downward Spiral (opens the original)
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Pretty much every morning after some coffee and checking in with NPR, I start streaming KEXP from Seattle (you should too), an incredible, commercial-free, artist-supporting, endlessly rewarding, shapeshifting music resource. Their DJs handpick every show, which go from thematic twists and turns to live in-studio performances. Most new bands I’m into I discover here. The Morning Show with John Richards is a particular fave and yesterday morning he dropped a live version of Nine Inch Nails’ 1994
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