15 Years Later: Reflections on Kurt Cobain & Nirvana

Posted by Albert Costill on Apr 7, 2009 in FYI | Comments

As many of you probably know, April 5, 2009 marked fifteen years since Kurt Cobain committed suicide.

Nirvana wasn’t the first of the so called “grunge” bands, but they were the band that brought Seattle to the world.

See, in 1991 we didn’t have the access that we have now to music. We had to rely on the radio, and yes, even MTV. Unless you were tapped into a live music scene, or even college radio, there was little exposure to music outside of the radio and MTV.

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Introducing the Evolvor.com Contributing Authors Program

Posted by Eric Hebert on Apr 6, 2009 in Blogoholica | Comments

As someone who is heavily involved in the digital music realm, one of the things that becomes a challenge is staying on top over everything – between the 40-50 hours per week working on almost every aspect of the web, from coding and technical issues, writing and editing, doing research, setting up schedules and budgets, emailing, chatting on IM, wasting time on Facebook, and maybe getting to my 300+ subscription blogroll, there’s a ton of information out there for one to consume and digest.

It’s really too much for one person to take all that and somehow teach a village before that info becomes obsolete.

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