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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ “It’s the most spontaneous thing I’ve ever been involved in”: the story of Mad Season, the grunge supergroup that Mike McCready hoped would save Layne Staley ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ The band brought together members of Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains and Screaming Trees and they emerged with one of the most underrated rock records of the 90s ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Niall Doherty ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/MgX9oVXmWvU3fqz6Y6iBGN-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ "You will hear it." Mariah Carey is still hoping to release the secret grunge album she recorded in the 90s ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ The pop icon recorded the album in 1995, but it is yet to be released into the wild ]]>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ merlin.alderslade@futurenet.com (Merlin Alderslade) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Merlin Alderslade ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/JdTsfCb9yPYtDez3Anm768-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Nixon embrace grunge with new range of spectacular Nirvana watches ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Nixon, known for their Metallica, Rolling Stones & Grateful Dead timepieces and merch, release an eye-catching range of Nirvana watches ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Scott Munro ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/WCq3qa45Qc5dnGTFUoCegQ-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ “You felt like something was happening and you were actually part of it. That's a pretty cool feeling.” Alice In Chains' Jerry Cantrell looks back on the dawning of the grunge revolution in Seattle ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Jerry Cantrell reflects on the birth of the Seattle Sound ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Paul Brannigan ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/L7orHY9B2KyTKkQy8udo2i-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Ian Gillan says Black Sabbath were more "important" than Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin: "Without them there would have been no grunge or heavy metal" ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Ian Gillan on the "unholy trinity" of British rock bands, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, and why the Brummie Rock Gods were the "most important" of them all ]]>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ elizabeth.capewell@futurenet.com (Liz Scarlett) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Liz Scarlett ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/CnBtX4bh6iL5JQEsxnvoTg-1280-80.png">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ “We didn’t meander into obscurity and make records that I wasn’t proud of. None of that ever happened”: the epic story of Soundgarden, the superstar grunge band who didn’t want to be superstars ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Late, great Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell would have turned 60 on July 20 – this is the story of the band that made him famous ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Greg Prato ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/7Grd4JxnbERxUffNs6N4SH-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ “If it brings back memories and feelings for people, that’s the magic of music.” Watch ex-Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic perform the grunge gods' debut single Love Buzz in Kurt Cobain’s hometown  ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Krist Novoselic’s new band The Bona Fide Band rocked Aberdeen, Washington on June 21 ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Paul Brannigan ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/zNYszd7JTFVLpsM8XAYjC9-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ “I remember thinking, ‘I’ll probably never be on a tour that’s this f**king crazy ever again’”: how L7 were responsible for grunge's most debauched tour ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ The LA rockers' jaunt with Cat Butt tooks in brawls, hard drugs, gangland shootings, machete attacks and more. ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Niall Doherty ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/xKoRmX2nLb7Xwj2YqEuPGk-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ “An enchanting brew of grunge and shoegaze with the DIY attitude of riot grrrl punk.” Twin siblings Softcult continue to evolve in thrilling new ways on Heaven  ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Canadian siblings Mercedes and Phoenix Arn-Horn expand their riotgaze sound on new EP, Heaven ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Vicky Greer ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/UWkDAbdaGhLQndfNfYyxTn-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ “I lived with this false hope that Weiland was one day gonna get it together. I kick myself because we let it go on for so long”: how Chester Bennington helped rebuild grunge icons Stone Temple Pilots ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ The story of Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington’s brief but memorable stint with grunge legends Stone Temple Pilots ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Jon Weiderhorn ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/3zZUSQzvn58tVGfyxBFrkQ-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ "The grunge scene had a lot of that moody stuff going on, but when we had come about, it had been years since the grunge thing really popped.” Mark Tremonti explains what set Creed apart from the rest ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ According to the guitarist, Creed had a unique appeal compared to other bands around them at the time ]]>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ merlin.alderslade@futurenet.com (Merlin Alderslade) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Merlin Alderslade ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/9DgVyat5iRMkmG3Thbmor8-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ “We could never be Nirvana, but we could make an album that would fit in with the times without us looking like stupid old farts”: how Def Leppard survived tragedy, grunge and the turbulent 1990s to make two of their most underrated albums ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Def Leppard were one of the most successful rock bands of the 1980s. The 1990s was a different matter ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Paul Elliott ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/vToxfxRPVBy2yGPUP3t8Ng-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ “It was strange to pick up a tape and find titles like Sex Type Thing”: the time the mum of a 90s grunge fan made him go on Oprah to clean up his look ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ American mother Pam was also leftt unimpressed by Stone Temple Pilots’ debut album ]]>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ "I'm working on a little project about the Seattle scene": Pearl Jam's Mike McCready is writing a rock opera about the triumphs and tragedies of grunge ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ A new Pearl Jam album AND a grunge rock opera? Stop it Mike McCready, that's just showing off ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Paul Brannigan ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/fneKbkofxi9zQGMt8dRvWi-1280-80.jpeg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ "When I heard that on the radio, I went, Dammit, I should have written that song": Alice Cooper names the emo and grunge anthems he wishes he had written ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ The Godfather of Shock Rock singles out the emo and grunge classics that he wishes were his songs ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Paul Brannigan ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/f5thktSzfCm8yByHNL3zZJ-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:description><![CDATA[For the busiest man in rock, the past year has been a testing time. Forced to stay at home away from  the touring cycles he’s spent 50 years in, Alice Cooper has used COVID quarantine to craft his new album, Detroit Stories, a love letter to his hometown and its musical history. While the world waits for the next chapter in his catalogue, we challenged you to ask the Godfather Of Shock  Rock the best questions you could conjure up. You didn’t disappoint, and naturally, neither did he.  Do you remember the first time an artist shocked you, and did it have any impact on the route you took? Rich Hobson (Facebook) “I was seven when I first saw Elvis Presley on The Ed Sullivan Show and we were so used to doo-wop music when  I was a kid, all of a sudden we didn’t know if Elvis was the hero or the villain, but I knew my parents liked him. The second time was when we saw the Beatles – we all went, ‘Wow look at that hair, look at the boots, look at the suits! These songs are the best songs I’ve ever heard!’ Then the Rolling Stones came and I got the reaction from my parents that these guys were scruffy, they could be drug addicts – that appealed to me. I looked at them and thought,  ‘If I ever get a band together, I’m gonna make these guys look like choirboys!’”  Nobody Likes Me and Science Fiction – where the hell do those songs come from and what happened to them? What’s the story? Petromax Skavholm (Facebook) “Those songs were so vaudeville, we did Nobody Likes Me with a door with Alice sitting behind it and the band singing back to me. The first time Bob Ezrin saw that, we were playing that at Max’s Kansas City in New York City and he was sent to get rid of us, he was not supposed to sign us at all. He saw that song and all the theatrics we were doing, even though we didn’t have the money to do any big theatrics, but that’s when he signed us. He said, ‘I’ve visited the future, you guys are the future.’ As for Science Fiction, back in the early days we were really good friends with Pink Floyd, we lived together in Los Angeles for a while when they ran out of money. Syd Barrett and Glen Buxton used to sit in  a room with two echoplex pedals and play things back and forth to each other. So our kind of jams around that time were really psychedelic; we would just take off on a theme, and Science Fiction was a psychedelic jam.”  Did you feel you were walking  a tightrope in the 70s as the ‘Shock Rock King’ while having massive Top 40 radio success with tender ballads like I Never Cry, Only Women Bleed and You And Me? Jo Fleischer (Facebook) “The funny thing was that we wrote those songs because somebody said in an article that we were a one-trick pony, that we could do what we do but that’s as far as it went. [Producer/keyboardist] Bob Ezrin, [guitarist] Dick Wagner and I sat down and wrote Only Women Bleed, they took it to the record company  and the company thought it was [US singer-songwriter] James Taylor! So  I wrote one of those heartbreaking ballads on every album… It was so opposite of Alice that it worked.”  Why was it important to you to pay homage to the city of Detroit for your new album? Freddie Baker (email) “I was born there and Detroit is the home of hard rock. Los Angeles had the Doors, San Francisco had the Grateful Dead, New York had the Young Rascals, Detroit had the Stooges, the MC5, Alice Cooper, Bob Seger, the list goes on. All the bands that came out of Detroit were guitar-driven hard rock bands, more Chuck Berry’s rock’n’roll. I’m proud to be from Detroit because that’s the kind of music I’ve played all my life, so even though Detroit is the butt of the joke sometimes, when people say where you’re from, I say I’m from Detroit and I’m proud of that! We used to play a line-up every weekend of Iggy and the Stooges, the MC5, Alice Cooper and The Who – how cool is that? That was a normal weekend to us!”  What three songs define the Alice Cooper experience? Joel Anthony (Facebook) “You have to put School’s Out in there, then I think The Ballad Of Dwight Fry is what I would call the calling card for theatrics in a song. If you ask Johnny Depp, Marilyn Manson, Tim Burton or the Foo Fighters, every single one of them say their favourite song is Dwight Fry. For a commercial audience, Poison is one of the most important songs because it proved we could do all three of those kinds of music.”  You seem to have been mentoring  a few younger metal musicians. Your help and advice especially around substance abuse was mentioned  a few times in books published in recent years. Did you see this role of ‘Godfather Of Metal’ coming? Marco LG (Facebook) “It was just one of those things I went through myself. I went through alcohol and cocaine and when I came out the other end, the Lord brought me through it because he knew I had a lot more things to do. I look back at that time and wonder how I got anything done, we were on a schedule but at the same time we were almost living in a false world. I can’t say the songs weren’t good but I don’t remember writing or touring them, but I somehow came out the other side without dying. At that point I thought, ‘I probably would’ve had more hits if I hadn’t been drinking or taking drugs.’ For young bands that think this is all going to be fun and games when you’re 19-21 because you’re indestructible, if you want to stick around you’ve gotta stay away from what destroys you. Look at the 27 club: those were all my friends, my big brothers and sisters, and I watched them all burn out.”  Got any good make-up tips? Sabrina Thomas (email) “The spray for base make-up works  a lot better than just slapping it on.  I’ve always found greasepaint is good because every night I put it on and I have to take it off, greasepaint comes off really easily. When you’re using my kind of make-up, it’s a chore getting it on and off but greasepaint comes right off. Sometimes when we’re playing really hot gigs outside, the paint starts dripping and melting and it creates  a whole different look. By the end  of the show, you don’t look anything like you did at the beginning and sometimes it turns out pretty cool!”  Do you think rock music has the capacity to ‘shock’ any more? If not, why not? James Fox (email) “I think audiences are shockproof now. I came out at the perfect time to shock the audience because they weren’t ready for a band of guys with hair down to their waists, wearing make-up and not minding a little bit of real blood on stage. We would do the West Side Story thing and we had real switchblades, we’d get cut. The audiences were just not ready for that, but we weren’t Satanic at all; we just made ourselves so surrealistic that nobody could categorise us. Musically we were  a good hard rock band but visually we confused and shocked everybody, so the more that would shock people,  the more we did.”  You said that you don’t remember the making of albums like DaDa and Special Forces. Ever thought to play them again live? Matteo Gilardelli (Facebook) “Oh yeah, I’m not against the songs but those were not songs that Ezrin had anything to do with. If Ezrin had done those, they would’ve been little masterpieces. DaDa is the creepiest, weirdest little album and Ezrin plugged right into how creepy we were at that point. Flush The Fashion was with Roy Thomas Baker, that was a weird little album too, like Zipper Catches Skin. In fact I still might go back and produce those songs with Bob because they’re good but they weren’t produced well; songs like Zorro’s Ascent need to be blown up into better songs.” Did you ever cross paths with your theatrical comrade, David Bowie? Debbie Long (email) “David used to come to the show when he was a mime artist, he was Davy Jones back then. I remember at one of our Welcome To My Nightmare shows, he brought his band the Spiders From Mars and he was saying, ‘This is what we should be doing.’ But he never did it the way we did it. When we started doing theatrics and still had hit records, that opened up a huge door for Bowie, Lou Reed and Velvet Underground because you could be theatrical and commercial at the same time. I wanted there to be an artistic movement,  I created Alice as a villain and Bowie created all of his characters to fit who he wanted to be, so I never really saw him as competition, I encouraged him. Bowie and I talked all the time, we’d compliment each other. There was  a whole thing about Bowie and Lou Reed talking about my androgynous thing being fake and they were right, of course, it’s fake. It’s a dark vaudeville show and I play a character. Lou and David knew me and knew I couldn’t be more down-the-middle American but I just happened to tap into this character and the image – I knew how to make that character scary, sexy, revolting and funny at the same time!”   DETROIT STORIES IS OUT FEBRUARY 26 VIA EARMUSIC]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[For the busiest man in rock, the past year has been a testing time. Forced to stay at home away from  the touring cycles he’s spent 50 years in, Alice Cooper has used COVID quarantine to craft his new album, Detroit Stories, a love letter to his hometown and its musical history. While the world waits for the next chapter in his catalogue, we challenged you to ask the Godfather Of Shock  Rock the best questions you could conjure up. You didn’t disappoint, and naturally, neither did he.  Do you remember the first time an artist shocked you, and did it have any impact on the route you took? Rich Hobson (Facebook) “I was seven when I first saw Elvis Presley on The Ed Sullivan Show and we were so used to doo-wop music when  I was a kid, all of a sudden we didn’t know if Elvis was the hero or the villain, but I knew my parents liked him. The second time was when we saw the Beatles – we all went, ‘Wow look at that hair, look at the boots, look at the suits! These songs are the best songs I’ve ever heard!’ Then the Rolling Stones came and I got the reaction from my parents that these guys were scruffy, they could be drug addicts – that appealed to me. I looked at them and thought,  ‘If I ever get a band together, I’m gonna make these guys look like choirboys!’”  Nobody Likes Me and Science Fiction – where the hell do those songs come from and what happened to them? What’s the story? Petromax Skavholm (Facebook) “Those songs were so vaudeville, we did Nobody Likes Me with a door with Alice sitting behind it and the band singing back to me. The first time Bob Ezrin saw that, we were playing that at Max’s Kansas City in New York City and he was sent to get rid of us, he was not supposed to sign us at all. He saw that song and all the theatrics we were doing, even though we didn’t have the money to do any big theatrics, but that’s when he signed us. He said, ‘I’ve visited the future, you guys are the future.’ As for Science Fiction, back in the early days we were really good friends with Pink Floyd, we lived together in Los Angeles for a while when they ran out of money. Syd Barrett and Glen Buxton used to sit in  a room with two echoplex pedals and play things back and forth to each other. So our kind of jams around that time were really psychedelic; we would just take off on a theme, and Science Fiction was a psychedelic jam.”  Did you feel you were walking  a tightrope in the 70s as the ‘Shock Rock King’ while having massive Top 40 radio success with tender ballads like I Never Cry, Only Women Bleed and You And Me? Jo Fleischer (Facebook) “The funny thing was that we wrote those songs because somebody said in an article that we were a one-trick pony, that we could do what we do but that’s as far as it went. [Producer/keyboardist] Bob Ezrin, [guitarist] Dick Wagner and I sat down and wrote Only Women Bleed, they took it to the record company  and the company thought it was [US singer-songwriter] James Taylor! So  I wrote one of those heartbreaking ballads on every album… It was so opposite of Alice that it worked.”  Why was it important to you to pay homage to the city of Detroit for your new album? Freddie Baker (email) “I was born there and Detroit is the home of hard rock. Los Angeles had the Doors, San Francisco had the Grateful Dead, New York had the Young Rascals, Detroit had the Stooges, the MC5, Alice Cooper, Bob Seger, the list goes on. All the bands that came out of Detroit were guitar-driven hard rock bands, more Chuck Berry’s rock’n’roll. I’m proud to be from Detroit because that’s the kind of music I’ve played all my life, so even though Detroit is the butt of the joke sometimes, when people say where you’re from, I say I’m from Detroit and I’m proud of that! We used to play a line-up every weekend of Iggy and the Stooges, the MC5, Alice Cooper and The Who – how cool is that? That was a normal weekend to us!”  What three songs define the Alice Cooper experience? Joel Anthony (Facebook) “You have to put School’s Out in there, then I think The Ballad Of Dwight Fry is what I would call the calling card for theatrics in a song. If you ask Johnny Depp, Marilyn Manson, Tim Burton or the Foo Fighters, every single one of them say their favourite song is Dwight Fry. For a commercial audience, Poison is one of the most important songs because it proved we could do all three of those kinds of music.”  You seem to have been mentoring  a few younger metal musicians. Your help and advice especially around substance abuse was mentioned  a few times in books published in recent years. Did you see this role of ‘Godfather Of Metal’ coming? Marco LG (Facebook) “It was just one of those things I went through myself. I went through alcohol and cocaine and when I came out the other end, the Lord brought me through it because he knew I had a lot more things to do. I look back at that time and wonder how I got anything done, we were on a schedule but at the same time we were almost living in a false world. I can’t say the songs weren’t good but I don’t remember writing or touring them, but I somehow came out the other side without dying. At that point I thought, ‘I probably would’ve had more hits if I hadn’t been drinking or taking drugs.’ For young bands that think this is all going to be fun and games when you’re 19-21 because you’re indestructible, if you want to stick around you’ve gotta stay away from what destroys you. Look at the 27 club: those were all my friends, my big brothers and sisters, and I watched them all burn out.”  Got any good make-up tips? Sabrina Thomas (email) “The spray for base make-up works  a lot better than just slapping it on.  I’ve always found greasepaint is good because every night I put it on and I have to take it off, greasepaint comes off really easily. When you’re using my kind of make-up, it’s a chore getting it on and off but greasepaint comes right off. Sometimes when we’re playing really hot gigs outside, the paint starts dripping and melting and it creates  a whole different look. By the end  of the show, you don’t look anything like you did at the beginning and sometimes it turns out pretty cool!”  Do you think rock music has the capacity to ‘shock’ any more? If not, why not? James Fox (email) “I think audiences are shockproof now. I came out at the perfect time to shock the audience because they weren’t ready for a band of guys with hair down to their waists, wearing make-up and not minding a little bit of real blood on stage. We would do the West Side Story thing and we had real switchblades, we’d get cut. The audiences were just not ready for that, but we weren’t Satanic at all; we just made ourselves so surrealistic that nobody could categorise us. Musically we were  a good hard rock band but visually we confused and shocked everybody, so the more that would shock people,  the more we did.”  You said that you don’t remember the making of albums like DaDa and Special Forces. Ever thought to play them again live? Matteo Gilardelli (Facebook) “Oh yeah, I’m not against the songs but those were not songs that Ezrin had anything to do with. If Ezrin had done those, they would’ve been little masterpieces. DaDa is the creepiest, weirdest little album and Ezrin plugged right into how creepy we were at that point. Flush The Fashion was with Roy Thomas Baker, that was a weird little album too, like Zipper Catches Skin. In fact I still might go back and produce those songs with Bob because they’re good but they weren’t produced well; songs like Zorro’s Ascent need to be blown up into better songs.” Did you ever cross paths with your theatrical comrade, David Bowie? Debbie Long (email) “David used to come to the show when he was a mime artist, he was Davy Jones back then. I remember at one of our Welcome To My Nightmare shows, he brought his band the Spiders From Mars and he was saying, ‘This is what we should be doing.’ But he never did it the way we did it. When we started doing theatrics and still had hit records, that opened up a huge door for Bowie, Lou Reed and Velvet Underground because you could be theatrical and commercial at the same time. I wanted there to be an artistic movement,  I created Alice as a villain and Bowie created all of his characters to fit who he wanted to be, so I never really saw him as competition, I encouraged him. Bowie and I talked all the time, we’d compliment each other. There was  a whole thing about Bowie and Lou Reed talking about my androgynous thing being fake and they were right, of course, it’s fake. It’s a dark vaudeville show and I play a character. Lou and David knew me and knew I couldn’t be more down-the-middle American but I just happened to tap into this character and the image – I knew how to make that character scary, sexy, revolting and funny at the same time!”   DETROIT STORIES IS OUT FEBRUARY 26 VIA EARMUSIC]]></media:text>
                                <media:title type="plain"><![CDATA[For the busiest man in rock, the past year has been a testing time. Forced to stay at home away from  the touring cycles he’s spent 50 years in, Alice Cooper has used COVID quarantine to craft his new album, Detroit Stories, a love letter to his hometown and its musical history. While the world waits for the next chapter in his catalogue, we challenged you to ask the Godfather Of Shock  Rock the best questions you could conjure up. You didn’t disappoint, and naturally, neither did he.  Do you remember the first time an artist shocked you, and did it have any impact on the route you took? Rich Hobson (Facebook) “I was seven when I first saw Elvis Presley on The Ed Sullivan Show and we were so used to doo-wop music when  I was a kid, all of a sudden we didn’t know if Elvis was the hero or the villain, but I knew my parents liked him. The second time was when we saw the Beatles – we all went, ‘Wow look at that hair, look at the boots, look at the suits! These songs are the best songs I’ve ever heard!’ Then the Rolling Stones came and I got the reaction from my parents that these guys were scruffy, they could be drug addicts – that appealed to me. I looked at them and thought,  ‘If I ever get a band together, I’m gonna make these guys look like choirboys!’”  Nobody Likes Me and Science Fiction – where the hell do those songs come from and what happened to them? What’s the story? Petromax Skavholm (Facebook) “Those songs were so vaudeville, we did Nobody Likes Me with a door with Alice sitting behind it and the band singing back to me. The first time Bob Ezrin saw that, we were playing that at Max’s Kansas City in New York City and he was sent to get rid of us, he was not supposed to sign us at all. He saw that song and all the theatrics we were doing, even though we didn’t have the money to do any big theatrics, but that’s when he signed us. He said, ‘I’ve visited the future, you guys are the future.’ As for Science Fiction, back in the early days we were really good friends with Pink Floyd, we lived together in Los Angeles for a while when they ran out of money. Syd Barrett and Glen Buxton used to sit in  a room with two echoplex pedals and play things back and forth to each other. So our kind of jams around that time were really psychedelic; we would just take off on a theme, and Science Fiction was a psychedelic jam.”  Did you feel you were walking  a tightrope in the 70s as the ‘Shock Rock King’ while having massive Top 40 radio success with tender ballads like I Never Cry, Only Women Bleed and You And Me? Jo Fleischer (Facebook) “The funny thing was that we wrote those songs because somebody said in an article that we were a one-trick pony, that we could do what we do but that’s as far as it went. [Producer/keyboardist] Bob Ezrin, [guitarist] Dick Wagner and I sat down and wrote Only Women Bleed, they took it to the record company  and the company thought it was [US singer-songwriter] James Taylor! So  I wrote one of those heartbreaking ballads on every album… It was so opposite of Alice that it worked.”  Why was it important to you to pay homage to the city of Detroit for your new album? Freddie Baker (email) “I was born there and Detroit is the home of hard rock. Los Angeles had the Doors, San Francisco had the Grateful Dead, New York had the Young Rascals, Detroit had the Stooges, the MC5, Alice Cooper, Bob Seger, the list goes on. All the bands that came out of Detroit were guitar-driven hard rock bands, more Chuck Berry’s rock’n’roll. I’m proud to be from Detroit because that’s the kind of music I’ve played all my life, so even though Detroit is the butt of the joke sometimes, when people say where you’re from, I say I’m from Detroit and I’m proud of that! We used to play a line-up every weekend of Iggy and the Stooges, the MC5, Alice Cooper and The Who – how cool is that? That was a normal weekend to us!”  What three songs define the Alice Cooper experience? Joel Anthony (Facebook) “You have to put School’s Out in there, then I think The Ballad Of Dwight Fry is what I would call the calling card for theatrics in a song. If you ask Johnny Depp, Marilyn Manson, Tim Burton or the Foo Fighters, every single one of them say their favourite song is Dwight Fry. For a commercial audience, Poison is one of the most important songs because it proved we could do all three of those kinds of music.”  You seem to have been mentoring  a few younger metal musicians. Your help and advice especially around substance abuse was mentioned  a few times in books published in recent years. Did you see this role of ‘Godfather Of Metal’ coming? Marco LG (Facebook) “It was just one of those things I went through myself. I went through alcohol and cocaine and when I came out the other end, the Lord brought me through it because he knew I had a lot more things to do. I look back at that time and wonder how I got anything done, we were on a schedule but at the same time we were almost living in a false world. I can’t say the songs weren’t good but I don’t remember writing or touring them, but I somehow came out the other side without dying. At that point I thought, ‘I probably would’ve had more hits if I hadn’t been drinking or taking drugs.’ For young bands that think this is all going to be fun and games when you’re 19-21 because you’re indestructible, if you want to stick around you’ve gotta stay away from what destroys you. Look at the 27 club: those were all my friends, my big brothers and sisters, and I watched them all burn out.”  Got any good make-up tips? Sabrina Thomas (email) “The spray for base make-up works  a lot better than just slapping it on.  I’ve always found greasepaint is good because every night I put it on and I have to take it off, greasepaint comes off really easily. When you’re using my kind of make-up, it’s a chore getting it on and off but greasepaint comes right off. Sometimes when we’re playing really hot gigs outside, the paint starts dripping and melting and it creates  a whole different look. By the end  of the show, you don’t look anything like you did at the beginning and sometimes it turns out pretty cool!”  Do you think rock music has the capacity to ‘shock’ any more? If not, why not? James Fox (email) “I think audiences are shockproof now. I came out at the perfect time to shock the audience because they weren’t ready for a band of guys with hair down to their waists, wearing make-up and not minding a little bit of real blood on stage. We would do the West Side Story thing and we had real switchblades, we’d get cut. The audiences were just not ready for that, but we weren’t Satanic at all; we just made ourselves so surrealistic that nobody could categorise us. Musically we were  a good hard rock band but visually we confused and shocked everybody, so the more that would shock people,  the more we did.”  You said that you don’t remember the making of albums like DaDa and Special Forces. Ever thought to play them again live? Matteo Gilardelli (Facebook) “Oh yeah, I’m not against the songs but those were not songs that Ezrin had anything to do with. If Ezrin had done those, they would’ve been little masterpieces. DaDa is the creepiest, weirdest little album and Ezrin plugged right into how creepy we were at that point. Flush The Fashion was with Roy Thomas Baker, that was a weird little album too, like Zipper Catches Skin. In fact I still might go back and produce those songs with Bob because they’re good but they weren’t produced well; songs like Zorro’s Ascent need to be blown up into better songs.” Did you ever cross paths with your theatrical comrade, David Bowie? Debbie Long (email) “David used to come to the show when he was a mime artist, he was Davy Jones back then. I remember at one of our Welcome To My Nightmare shows, he brought his band the Spiders From Mars and he was saying, ‘This is what we should be doing.’ But he never did it the way we did it. When we started doing theatrics and still had hit records, that opened up a huge door for Bowie, Lou Reed and Velvet Underground because you could be theatrical and commercial at the same time. I wanted there to be an artistic movement,  I created Alice as a villain and Bowie created all of his characters to fit who he wanted to be, so I never really saw him as competition, I encouraged him. Bowie and I talked all the time, we’d compliment each other. There was  a whole thing about Bowie and Lou Reed talking about my androgynous thing being fake and they were right, of course, it’s fake. It’s a dark vaudeville show and I play a character. Lou and David knew me and knew I couldn’t be more down-the-middle American but I just happened to tap into this character and the image – I knew how to make that character scary, sexy, revolting and funny at the same time!”   DETROIT STORIES IS OUT FEBRUARY 26 VIA EARMUSIC]]></media:title>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ "Had we come along two years earlier, before grunge took over, things could have turned out better": Thunder's Luke Morley is at peace with the past ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Thunder guitarist Luke Morley on his new solo album, singer Danny Bowes’ illness and rehabilitation, fans’ generosity, and feeling old when hearing his songs being covered ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Dave Ling ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/AHEHJtrXkAfEHjt8X8ixJV-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ 10 terrible grunge albums with one classic song ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Grunge brought us some classic albums, but a lot of stinkers, too. Luckily, these poor efforts were all saved by one brilliant song ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Stephen Hill ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/m5wBVqom6embDFTjcYrTAe-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ "We had to die" - A history of The Grunge Wars, told by those who were there ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Three decades ago, GN’R’s Use Your Illusion and Nirvana’sNevermind were released just two weeks apart, setting twomusical cultures against each other. We asked combatants from both sides: who won the war? ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Henry Yates ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/E2ErP4P3UiSc9Aa4JVyWcW-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ A beginner's guide to grunge in five essential albums ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.loudersound.com/features/a-beginners-guide-to-grunge-in-five-essential-albums</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ Teenage angst really did pay off well: five albums that define grunge's story, from the brilliant beginning to the bitter end ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Niall Doherty ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/sPKbZctL6mQrqpcYEfQKcV-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:description><![CDATA[A montage of album covers]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[A montage of album covers]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Watch Keanu Reeves troll an angry death metal festival crowd with his grunge band: "We got killed" ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.loudersound.com/news/keanu-reeves-trolls-death-metal-festival</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ Remembering that time someone thought it'd be a good idea to put Keanu Reeves' band on a festival bill with Deicide, Obituary and Cannibal Corpse ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2023 11:33:10 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:01 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Paul Brannigan ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/XqjisuLVeidPNNUXkKdfmT-1280-80.jpeg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Michael Jackson's daughter Paris has released a grunge single that sounds like Nirvana ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.loudersound.com/news/michael-jacksons-daughter-paris-has-released-a-grunge-single-that-sounds-like-nirvana</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ Listen to Paris Jackson's grunge single Bandaid ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2023 17:35:39 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:31:01 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Paul Brannigan ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/bniFNcS8uiri53aW7MUXc4-1280-80.jpeg">
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:description><![CDATA[Paris Jackson]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Paris Jackson]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Every song on Nirvana's Nevermind, ranked from worst to best ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.loudersound.com/features/nirvana-nevermind-songs-ranked</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ Nirvana's classic second album Nevermind might have inspired a generation - but that doesn't stop us messing with it ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2021 08:06:02 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Fri, 24 Sep 2021 10:05:11 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Alec Chillingworth ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/6ARxTRXNMA2bJWatVvymJV-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:description><![CDATA[Nirvana&#039;s Nevermind turns 25]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Nirvana&#039;s Nevermind turns 25]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Alice In Chains’ Jerry Cantrell: “Our music will be around longer than me” ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.loudersound.com/features/alice-in-chains-the-gospel-according-to-jerry-cantrell</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ The Alice In Chains man on his rollercoaster career, his biggest influences and the dreaded ‘g’ word. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2020 20:14:12 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Thu, 20 Aug 2020 09:40:46 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Mörat ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/DpDsiCRomFs2A6CizZ7ZVc-1280-80.jpg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[Future/Justin Borucki]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:description><![CDATA[Jerry Cantrell]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Jerry Cantrell]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Album Of The Week Club: Soundgarden - Superunknown ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.loudersound.com/reviews/album-of-the-week-club-soundgarden-superunknown</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ Soundgarden may have been a little slower to hit the mainstream than Nirvana and Pearl Jam, but Superunknown catapulted them into the big time ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2018 18:39:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 20 Mar 2018 14:15:44 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Classic Rock ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/VhRH8k6qsXNj4VpzMENTth-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Chris Cornell interview: searching for the real Chris Cornell ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.loudersound.com/features/archive-the-real-chris-cornell</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ We revisit a classic interview with Chris Cornell, conducted in LA in the summer of 1996 ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2018 17:02:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Sun, 20 Jan 2019 20:00:59 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Paul Brannigan ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/HCjLbRCR55ZQhsRgCzpesh-1280-80.jpg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[Ebet Roberts]]></media:credit>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ The 10 Worst Nirvana Songs ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-10-worst-nirvana-songs</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ A 36-minute Nirvana playlist which should be escorted to a dense forest and left there forever ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2016 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Mon, 18 Jun 2018 14:36:40 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Howard Johnson ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/HaU7LcyJvKv7rcjjL4iQQS-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:description><![CDATA[Nirvana&#039;s Kurt Cobain]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Nirvana&#039;s Kurt Cobain]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Tad - Reissues album review ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.loudersound.com/reviews/tad-reissues-album-review</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ First three albums by Seattle grunge behemoths expanded ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2016 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 01 Nov 2016 12:34:51 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ David Stubbs ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/JxMB82d3zwdKuTmhwe7GnB-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ What Nirvana mean to me, by Frank Carter ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.loudersound.com/features/nirvana-kurt-cobain-frank-carter-rattlesnakes-bleach-nevermind-mtv-unplugged-interview</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ Frank Carter reveals his love affair with the Seattle grunge legends ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2016 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Mon, 18 Jun 2018 14:36:27 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Thea de Gallier ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/rP4pZqqfhAypxYwveBSbba-1280-80.jpg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[Michel Linssen\/Redferns]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Kurt Cobain]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Frank Carter reveals what Nirvana mean to him]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ The Nirvana baby is now 25 years old. Do you feel old yet? ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.loudersound.com/features/nirvana-nevermind-baby-artwork-spencer-elden</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ This is the story behind Nirvana's Nevermind artwork ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2016 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Mon, 18 Jun 2018 14:35:31 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ TeamRock ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/kwuuAhed9Pv6sbDrYyuH2e-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:description><![CDATA[Nirvana&#039;s Nevermind turns 25 this month]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Nirvana&#039;s Nevermind turns 25 this month]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Rock Icons: Kurt Cobain by Chad Channing ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Nirvana's former drummer Chad Channing pays tribute to the late grunge icon ]]>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ The best Foo Fighters memes ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Big memes? Here's all the funny Foo Fighters stuff stored under one virtual roof ]]>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ The 10 Best Nirvana Songs For Elvis To Sing ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Elvis –not that one –of Nirvana tribute Elvana picks his essential setlist ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2016 11:50:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Mon, 18 Jun 2018 14:34:49 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Alec Chillingworth ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Z43PpA9kxspiTpoYKWhPJ4-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ How did Kurt Cobain dislocate his shoulder during Nirvana's Reading debut? ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Nirvana played Reading Festival for the first time on August 23, 1991 ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Kevan Roberts ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/CeVFpwze9PM95FwjTBKyjh-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Video Breakdown: Foo Fighters –Low ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Dave Grohl and Jack Black have a lovely time in a crap motel ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2016 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 20 Sep 2022 13:42:08 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Simon Young ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/XfGvtyAKw957mjDzvLZzhK-1280-80.jpg">
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