Author: Lizz
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We Are Rewind Cassette Player.
When I was about 5 or 6, my grandparents gifted me a green Panasonic RQ-CW02 Walkman Cassette player. I didn’t have many cassette tapes, my dad gave me his copy of ‘Revenge’ by The Eurhythmics, one of the two cassettes from Now ’84, and I have vague memories of an Abba album, maybe their greatest…
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Royal College of Music London – Kurt Cobain Unplugged.
In 1989, MTV began the Unplugged series, presented by Jules Shear, it was a chance to hear popular music performed acoustic, think of it as the Tiny Desk sessions of the 90’s. Many of these performances were later brought out as albums usually titled the band’s name followed by ‘Unplugged’. November of 1993 saw Nirvana…
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Exploring Themes in Garbage’s Latest Album: Love, Grief, and Rebellion.
When I think 90s music, I think Garbage, the original four-piece line up with icon Shirley Manson on lead vocals and guitar, Steve Marker on guitar and keyboard, Butch Vig on drums and percussion and Duke Erikson on Bass have released their eighth studio album, written and recorded while Manson was recovering from a hip…
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Pulp’s ‘More’: A Journey Through Life.
I remember the first time I read the novel IT by Stephen King, the moment hit me that the story wasn’t just a bloodthirsty clown on a rampage, but a coming-of-age story, it gave the book so much body once the penny had dropped. PULP are the Stephen King of music for me, their commentary…