The Stooges

Rolling Stone lists the 50 greatest grunge albums of all time

Rolling Stone has done other genre-specific ‘greatest albums’ lists before, like for metal and punk, and now they’ve done it for grunge.

Bill's Indie Basement (3/8): the week in classic indie, college rock, and more

This week in the Basement: reviews of new albums by Munya, Norway’s I Was a King, and Xeno & Oaklander, plus Gary Numan’s ’I Assassin’ is reissued on vinyl, Scottish post-punk outfit Vital Idles, and Sudakistan cover The Stooges in Spanish.

15 songs that influenced Nirvana (probably)

Grunge was portrayed in the media as a brand new phenomenon, but Nirvana themselves would be the first to tell you that their music wasn’t really as original as people were saying it was. Here are 15 of the songs that (probably) helped make them…

10 Record Store Day Black Friday titles we'd like to own

…and Weezer’s Africa-shaped picture disc for their ”Africa” cover.

Record Store Day announces RSD Black Friday 2018 exclusive titles

Record Store Day Black Friday happens at independent record stores on November 23 and exclusive titles include records by Talking Heads, Type O-Negative, Devo, The Stooges, The Germs, The Zombies, Sheryl Crow, Manchester Orchestra, Matthew Sweet and more.

watch Dinosaur Jr cover Stooges with Damian Abraham, play "The Wagon" w/ Kevin Drew

Dinosaur Jr’s intimate tour has been loaded with special guest appearances. Negative Approach’s John Brannon and The Meatmen’s Tesco Vee joined in Grand Rapids, followed by Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew and Fucked Up’s Damian Abraham in Toronto…

J Mascis, Mike Watt, Kim Gordon, Mark Arm & more playing Ron Asheton tribute

Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton, who passed away in 2009, would be turning 70 on July 17, and that day, in his former hometown of Ann Arbor, Michigan, a very impressive cast of musicians will pay tribute to him…

we pay tribute to The Fall's Mark E Smith on this week's BrooklynVegan Blog Radio on SiriusXMU (playlist)

The world lost a true original voice last week, Mark E Smith of The Fall. We paid tribute to him on this week’s edition of BrooklynVegan Blog Radio on SiriusXMU.

Moon Duo cover Suicide on new single (listen); Martin Rev playing w/ Wolf Eyes

Moon Duo follow up last year’s two-part Occult Architecture records with a new single that’ll be out January 19 via Sacred Bones. One side features a cover of Suicide’s “Jukebox Baby” and on the flip it’s a cover of The Stooges’ “No Fun.”

an interview with Electric Wizard's Liz Buckingham on upcoming album

Liz also picks five albums “for the strictly uninitiated“ to hear to get “in the mood“ for ‘Wizard Bloody Wizard.’
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