Depending on your aural upbringing and age, the term "grunge" may conjure up wildly divergent things. Read all about Alibi Copy Editor/Staff Writer Mark Lopez's romance with the Seattle sound in Seattle Wall of Sound: A paean to grunge. For me, Nirvana's Bleach was revelatory; Lopez prefers In Utero. Exploring difference is fun, no? In honor of this myriad genre, I compiled an hour-long grunge-tastic playlist for our dear readers, featuring tracks by: Flipper, L7, Babes in Toyland, 7 Year Bitch, Hole, Nirvana, Mudhoney, Tad, Wool, Melvins, Sleep Capsule, Coffin Break, Soundgarden, Killdozer, Pixies, The Breeders and Green River. Stream it below. Less-than-fresh coiffures, well-worn flannel and Dr. Martens are optional.
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V.26 No.5 | 2/2/2017
Kathleen Hensley
Culture Shock
The Unsettling of America
Author Mark Sundeen profiles farmers on the fringe in his newest book
Sundeen illustrates for readers how possible—not easy—but how definitely possible, it is to live in accordance with one's convictions.
V.25 No.25 | 06/23/2016
Pixabay
Event Horizon
Hotline Freedom
Monday, Jul 4: Freedom 4th
See the biggest firework show in the state to celebrate the 240th birthday of the USA along with a car show. Nationally known band Lonestar performs.
V.25 No.18 | 05/05/2016
Jack Snell / Creative Commons
Event Horizon
Classic Albuquerque
Sunday, May 15: 32nd Annual New Mexico Council of Car Clubs Classic Auto Show
Hundreds of antique, classic, exotic and sports cars, along with trucks, motorcycles and vintage camper trailers are on display in the museum parking lot.
V.25 No.16 | 4/21/2016
Technology and Its Discontents
The Spotify Effect
Music checks in, but it doesn’t check out
Who has made me a stranger to my iTunes music library? Spotify, it is you. Who has made it possible to summon full discographies of interrelated musical artists in a six-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon hopscotch that I Just Can’t Stop Doing? It’s you again, Spotify.
V.22 No.15 | 4/11/2013
Julia Minamata juliaminamata.com
Aural Fixation
Seattle Wall of Sound
A paean to grunge
Staff writer Mark Lopez explores the fuzzy riffs, frenzied corporate co-opting and ethos of authenticity that the grunge movement birthed.
V.21 No.2 |
NEWS
The Daily Word in Bigfoot's right to free speech, Robert Anton Wilson week, and (Un)-Occupy Albuquerque in Santa Fe
10 reasons the U.S. is no longer the land of the free.
(Un)-Occupy Albuquerque will be protesting in Santa Fe next week.
What happens to stuff dropped off at Santa Fe recycling stations?
It is Robert Anton Wilson week!
Women of the French Resistance.
Here is a different way of evaluating NFL teams and games.
"If you need a brassiere, wear one" and other dating tips for women circa 1938.
Too fat to fit in the CT-scanner? Try the one at the zoo.
Court finds state violated Bigfoot's right to free speech.
V.20 No.49 | 12/8/2011
From the Foxhole
The Detention of Americans
How the quest for absolute security is compromising our democracy
Columnist and war veteran Alex Limkin takes on the National Defense Authorization Act.
V.19 No.7 |
Kinky is (Officially) Not a Diagnosis
The DSM Revision
Getting an update in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is a big deal, particularly when it's the type of update that officially means that what you do is no longer considered medically problematic. This happened in the 70s in regard to homosexuality, and earlier this month it's happened for kinky people.
Here's the article from the Center for Sex and Culture and here is the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom's release. Another victory for personal freedom? Something to celebrate.
