MUSIC ARCHIVES

“Covering the tour is … a peculiar, alien sensation, as if you were visiting a planet where the female population had been de­cimated by an unnamed plague.”

Originally published: June 23, 1975

“These transcontinental urban griots echo the de­spair, pain, and anger of the South Bronx and Harlem (the world's two major rap centers), which a lot of the cool-jerk white liberals and b.s. black bourgeoisie don't want to hear.”

Originally published: January 21, 1981

"Suicide, especially one as violent as Cobain’s, is the loudest possible invocation of silence; it’s a perfectly clear way of turning your life into a mystery."

August 5, 2024

“Suicide, especially one as violent as Cobain's, is the loudest possible invocation of silence; it's a perfectly clear way of turning your life into a mystery.”

Originally published: April 19, 1994