Experiencing Nirvana – Bazillion Points Blog

Sun. 12/3, Los Angeles: Pat Fear and Other Stories, by WE GOT POWER!

Chief — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 15:38:56 +0000

Pat Fear, the persona created by a young punk rock genius from Riverside CA Bill Bartell, sang and played guitar in White Flag, slammed with the Germs in the film Decline of the Western Civilization, and achieved many other wild things. As Pat Fear, Bill wrote music, produced records, and toured the world (including Iceland!) ceaselessly before his untimely death in 2013. On December 3…

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SUB POP USA: Bruce Pavitt Looks to Upend the Music Business Again With 8Stem

Chief — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 20:04:08 +0000

Bruce Pavitt with Experiencing Nirvana: Grunge in Europe, 1989 Bazillion Points author and Sub Pop Records co-founder Bruce Pavitt has been a constant presence in tech news lately, thanks to his audience-empowering remix app 8Stem. The free iOS and upcoming Android apps enable allows users to break down licensed music to core elements (the eight “stems”); rework those basic components…

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Sat. 1/7, L.A.: Mike Watt Closing Party for WE GOT POWER! Photo Show

Chief — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 21:59:27 +0000

This Saturday, January 7, at 5 p.m., esteemed Los Angeles vinyl-only music outlet Pop Obscure Records winds up its extended photo exhibit featuring scores of images from We Got Power!: Hardcore Punk Scenes from 1980s Southern California by David Markey and Jordan Schwartz. The event offers a free performance by leading San Pedro punk luminary (and We Got Power! cohort) Mike Watt of the Minutemen/

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Tonight & New Year’s Eve OFF!/Melvins/Redd Kross Gigs Boast Steven McDonald Triple Threat

Chief — Tue, 27 Dec 2016 21:52:48 +0000

Sugar-rush punk-whelped power popsters Redd Kross, sludge gods the Melvins, and the murderers’ row hardcore collective Off! already shared much in common. Each has West Coast roots, each takes uniquely skewed approaches to big rock traditions, and, of course, they all kick up utterly monstrous punk-metal freak storms that can only be their own. Collectively, the bands have released hundreds of…

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WE GOT POWER!: Unique 40X Signed Copy on Auction to Benefit Chris Stein of Saccharine Trust

Chief — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 16:27:41 +0000

Place your bid on a one-of-a-kind copy of WE GOT POWER!: Hardcore Punk Scenes from 1980s Southern California, by David Markey and Jordan Schwartz, at this location: http://www.ebay.com/itm/172444434478 This is a special benefit auction for Chris Stein, long time bassist of Saccharine Trust, in an effort to help him offset expenses related to his battle with cancer. 100% of this auction will be…

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WE GOT POWER!: Break Off a Piece of “1991: The Year Punk Broke”

Chief — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 15:57:27 +0000

WE GOT POWER! coauthor David Markey’s all-time classic rock documentary 1991: The Year Punk Broke chronicles with machine gun wit and guerrilla flair Sonic Youth’s tour of Europe that year while accompanied by Nirvana, the Ramones, Dinosaur Jr., and Babes in Toyland. Shortly after Rolling Stone recently named 1991 one of the “Top 25 Punk Films of All Time,” L.A.’s vinyl-only Pop Obscure Records…

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SUB POP USA/EXPERIENCING NIRVANA: TAD Lives! Sub Pop Flexes Heavy w/Long-Awaited Classic Album Reissues

Chief — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 22:58:46 +0000

While EXPERIENCING NIRVANA: Grunge in Europe, 1989 costar Tad Doyle has been busy laying waste with Brothers of the Sonic Cloth, Sub Pop Records has been flexing some serious muscle by readying three essential albums for re-release by Doyle’s history-hammering outfit TAD. On November 4, Sub Pop unleashed remastered, deluxe editions of God’s Balls (1989), Salt Lick (1990), and the notorious 8…

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Bloody Roots of Grunge and Metal on Sirius XM

Chief — Sat, 08 Oct 2016 18:37:52 +0000

BLOODY ROOTS OF GRUNGE AND METAL Week of October 8, 2016 Sat 10/8, 6PM ET Sun 10/9, 1PM ET Mon 10/10, 9AM ET Tues 10/11, 4PM ET Thurs 10/13, 9PM ET Honoring Seattle-area long-haired punk music to mark the 25th anniversary of Nirvana’s surprise breakthrough Nevermind, Bloody Roots digs the distortion and flannel of grunge acts like Tad, Nirvana, Earth, Mudhoney, and Soundgarden.

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EXPERIENCING NIRVANA: Tad Doyle’s Brothers of the Sonic Cloth Rises Again

Chief — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 17:43:16 +0000

Slaying season has come once more to Seattle. Brothers of the Sonic Cloth, the Emerald City doom circle fronted by “heavier-than-God” Sub Pop-era grunge legend Tad Doyle of TAD fame, has announced that multi-instrumentalist Andrew McInnis has joined the group. McGinnis, formerly of Girth, will debut as a Brother on October 29, unleashing the loud, the crushing, and the sludgy all over Seattle’s…

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SUB POP USA: As Nirvana’s Nevermind Turns 25, Props to the Origins

Chief — Sat, 24 Sep 2016 14:51:43 +0000

On September 24, 1991, Nevermind by Nirvana hit record stores, and soon followed a rapid conquest of radio, MTV, international pop charts, every magazine on every newsstand everywhere, and global culture at large forever after. In rock history, few equally unmistakable “before-and-after” lines exist. The major turning of the tables involved how completely the underground music of the 1980s…

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