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"A mesmerising snapshot of the nihilistic grunge age": Mad Season's only album may forever be associated with tragedy and loss, but the musicians sound liberated

With members of Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains and Screaming Trees on board, Mad Season's 1995 album Above was gut-wrenching but transfixing

Metal Hammer

The Gaslight Anthem's Brian Fallon: My stories of Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vedder, Jon Bon Jovi, Dave Grohl and more

"He takes me down this dark path, and suddenly Mark Lanegan just appears out of nowhere, wreathed in smoke, kind of like the devil" - Brian Fallon

Louder

14 best grunge tracks to test your hi-fi system

Dig out that flannel and put your hi-fi system through its paces with our playlist of favourite grunge test tracks.

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"It was an awkward situation, too, with me being kind of naked": Graveyard's Joakim Nilsson on darkness, recording in forests, and running into famous musicians in the sauna

Retro-rocking Swedes Graveyard have returned with 6, a "contemplative" new album with isolation-themed lyrics

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"If you ever do that to me again, I'll kill you": the night Mark Lanegan had guns pulled on him when drug dealers thought his friend Josh Homme was a cop

One night during Lollapalooza 1996, Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan struggled to score as every drug dealer in town was convinced that his buddy Josh Home was an undercover 'narc'

Metal Hammer

Nick Cave, Dave Gahan, Debbie Harry, Mark Lanegan to appear on new tribute album The Task Has Overwhelmed Us

Stars line up to salute the life and legacy of The Gun Club's Jeffrey Lee Pierce

Louder

Kurt Cobain’s smashed guitar sells for over $900,000

A guitar smashed by Nirvana's Kurt Cobain has fetched $902,010 at auction, several times its original estimate.

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Kurt Cobain’s smashed guitar from Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ era fetches nearly $600,000

A Fender Stratocaster guitar smashed by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain has sold for nearly $600,000 at auction — more than 10 times what it was expected to go for.

Los Angeles Times

A battered guitar which Nirvana's Kurt Cobain gifted to his friend Mark Lanegan sells at auction for almost $600,000

Having parted with $596,900, an anonymous bidder is now the proud owner of a guitar once owned by Kurt Cobain

Metal Hammer

Kurt Cobain's broken guitar sells for nearly $600,000

The Nirvana frontman was known for smashing guitars during performances and in the studio. This one includes messages to his old friend, Mark Lanegan of the Screaming Trees.

WEKU

Is this the most expensive smashed guitar ever sold? Kurt Cobain’s stage-smashed Fender Stratocaster sells at auction for $600,000 – 10 times its initial estimate

The instrument, signed by all three members of Nirvana, er, smashed expectations in the recent sale

Guitar World

A Kurt Cobain stage-smashed Fender Stratocaster is going up for auction

Signed by all three members of Nirvana, the Strat also features a note from Cobain addressed to the Screaming Trees' Mark Lanegan

Guitar World

"I have a set of testicles and I like to use them”: watch Type O Negative discuss male vocalists and music for seduction in a risqué 'in bed with' interview

Type O Negative were as dry as ever in this 1994 interview, which saw Peter Steele express his dislike for male vocalists who sound "like little girls having their feet tickled”

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6 Music Festival review: Manic Street Preachers finally play legendary Cardiff club and cover Madonna

The Blackwood band kicked off the 6 Music Festival in Cardiff

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Evening Standard

Londoner’s Diary: BBC man’s diplomatic answer to Covid battle

BBC man’s Covid in Ukraine / Mirren on Meir / Love’s unhappy tribute / Mann loves a bargain / On the boards at the WhatsOnStage Awards / Hoyle’s boxing intervention / Helping the cats of Kyiv

The Independent UK

Mark Lanegan: Architect of the Seattle grunge scene

As the lead singer of Screaming Trees, the musician helped paved the way for titans such as Nirvana and Pearl Jam to flourish

The Guardian - UK

Mark Lanegan obituary

Former singer with Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age who also found success as an author

The Guardian - UK

‘You were my Heathcliff’: Isobel Campbell pays tribute to collaborator Mark Lanegan

The former Belle and Sebastian star made three albums with Lanegan, who died this week. Here, she recalls his ‘mystical air’, his sense of humour and his generosity

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The Independent UK

‘There was nobody like him’: Dave Grohl pays moving tribute to Mark Lanegan

Exclusive: Foo Fighters frontman pays tribute after musician Lanegan passed away at his home in Ireland earlier this week

Tribune News Service

Eddie Vedder honors late rock great Mark Lanegan during Seattle concert

SEATTLE — It was obviously too big to ignore. Excited Eddie Vedder fans stood in snaking merch and bar lines in Benaroya Hall’s lobby before the Pearl Jam frontman played his second of two Seattle shows Tuesday night. But entering the hall, the energy was different than it was one…

The Guardian - UK

From Screaming Trees to Gutter Twins: Mark Lanegan’s 10 greatest recordings

Collaborations with PJ Harvey, icy synthpop and rollicking psychedelia all feature in songs from across the career of a prolific musical great

Daily Mirror

Mark Lanegan's Covid battle saw him hallucinate in hospital for months before his death

Queens of the Stone Age rocker Mark Lanegan survived Covid and a medically induced coma before he passed away at his home in Ireland yesterday

Irish Mirror

Tributes pour in for popular musician Mark Lanegan after death at 57 in Kerry

Screaming Trees rocker Lanegan was a member of bands Queens of the Stone Age and The Gutter Twins - and collaborated with artists such as Nirvana's Kurt Cobain

The Guardian - UK

Mark Lanegan defied darkness to become one of his generation’s most soulful singers

Once primed to self-destruct, Lanegan found salvation and creative freedom in collaborations that brought out the nuances of his uniquely dignified voice

The Independent UK

Screaming Trees singer, Seattle icon Mark Lanegan dies at 57

Singer Mark Lanegan, whose band Screaming Trees was an essential part of the Seattle grunge scene in the early 1990s, has died

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