"Target," the most straightforwardly rocking song on Fugazi's album Red Medicine opens with Guy Picciotto coming to an epiphany: "It's cold outside and my hands are dry / Skin is cracked and I realize / That I hate the sound of guitars / A thousand grudging young millionaires." As he's singing this, of course, there are guitars erupting all around him -- his own and Ian MacKaye's, tautly bouncing off each other and building to the storm that'll come later in the song. But there's a larger point there: Things are getting ridiculous, and we're not having any of it.
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at 21.00 gmt friday, to mark the 16th birthday of their second album, ágætis byrjun, sigur rós will for the first time be streaming the full release day concert played at the icelandic opera house on june 12, 1999. the 1hr 40minute audio stream will be played through once in its entirety, exclusively via agaetis.sigur-ros.co.uk, at 21.00 icelandic time (14.00 PST / 17.00 EST / 22.00 BST / 23.00 CET / 06.00 JST), the same time as the original reykjavÃk show all those years ago.newly mixed by the band's kjartan sveinsson at sundlaugin studios, the 11-song set draws in equal amounts from ágætis byrjun and its 1997 predecessor von. it shows the band at a pivotal point in their development, a couple of months before they broke through on the international stage with the album's first single, svefn-g-englar.the opera house show also proved to be the last performance with drummer and founder member ágúst ævar gunnarsson, who would soon be replaced by orri páll dýrason.live at the icelandic opera house will form part of a forthcoming deluxe vinyl box set edition of ágætis byrjun to follow later in the year.
Brett Morgen's intimate and powerful new Kurt Cobain doc Montage Of Heck has been picking up critical plaudits left and right -- including from our very own Chris, who called it "the definitive portrait of Cobain." Some, however, are not so enamored. Melvins frontman Buzz Osborne, who became friends with Cobain in high school, had a few candid and not so flattering things to say about the veracity of the portrait of Cobain compiled by Morgen. Here's what he said in a new essay on The Talkhouse, the site where musicians write about other musicians...
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