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It’s no secret that Kurt was battling drug addiction. And there was tension within the band . It all seems a little clichéd now – you’ve probably read a fuckin’ million rock’n’roll biographies that are all the same – but it actually happened to us. We didn’t know what to do next. ”
Dave Grohl and Kris Novoselic on the making of In Utero
“We were interested in destroying our music, and the paradigms of rock music as ‘serious event’.”
John Schmersal, Eli Janney and Cedric Bixler-Zavala reflect on the genius of Brainiac’s Timmy Taylor, and the deranged brilliance of their second album, Bonsai Superstar
“I loved the power of the songs, and I loved Kurt’s voice, his amazing ability to growl and shred his voice with unbelievable emotional power, and yet also be really fragile at the same time. There was so much emotion and pain in the sound of Kurt’s voice.”
Butch Vig remembers producing Nirvana’s Nevermind for Kerrang!
“I told people, ‘We gonna be legends, we’re never gonna go away. We’re gonna be just like Jimi, just like Miles, because it’s gonna last forever.’ Shit was real.”
New Kingdom retrospective for Red Bull Music Academy
“I was blown away, that people really enjoyed the band, and wanted to see us play. We were in our mid-30s, we thought we'd missed the boat. It was late, but it came.”
Guided By Voices’ classic line-up interviewed for The Guardian
“I’m having séances with the spirits, I hear things in dreams. I make more money from madness than I do sanity, so I have to do it. But it’s a very fine line. I could easily get locked up any minute.”
Roots Manuva interviewed for The Quietus
“Van Gogh wasn’t the world’s greatest painter, but no one forgets the starving artist who sliced off his own ear. If I cut off my arm and it furthered my music, would that justify the means?”
Searching for Josh T Pearson for Loose Lips Sink Ships
“I was born to be a fly in the ointment. I’m a 30 year old man that probably has severe psychological problems, and lives in a filthy world of dust.”
Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox interviewed for MOJO
“The track swings between seething funk and out-there weirdness, as the Pointers evoke swarming jungle sounds, echoing the miasmic funk of Hancock’s Hornets.”
The Pointer Sisters’ Top Ten for The Guardian
“I wanted an album that faced up to fucked-up truth of London right now. I could have made a total noise record. But London isn't just that, it's full of beauty, as well as ugliness. I wanted both.”
The Bug’s Kevin Martin and Jesu’s Justin Broadrick profiled for The Guardian
“All my friends would laugh at me when I tried to dance. I was really self-conscious, stiff, and that carried on for years. And then I heard go-go. The bells, the cymbals, the drums... It just loosened me up, I lost all my self-consciousness.”
Amerie interviewed for The Guardian
“People have a hard time dealing with humour in music. But sometimes life is depressing, and sometimes life is fun, is about just laughing with your friends, and I wanted to express that, as well as the darker stuff.”
My Morning Jacket profiled for The Guardian
“Moore bounced out of his own comic strip, his lunatic energy matched by his anarchic bandmates’ vivid splatter of blaring brass and chicken-scratch guitar, playing reggae songs at punk tempos.”
Fishbone for The Guardian
“Would I still punch Jason, if I had my time over again?Very much so. It should’ve happened a long time before that. When you’re a leader, sometimes you have to be the janitor too. And sometimes you have to clean house”
Touring Brazil with the White Stripes for MOJO
“The arrival of Ernie, Marvin and Chris accelerated the group’s creative evolution. A full decade younger than the founding Isleys, these new bloods were attuned to the radical sea-changes then occurring within pop, soul and funk.”
Exploring The Isleys Live for The Foghat Principle