Tag: Rock Music

  • 25 Years of Texas Is the Reason

    25 Years of Texas Is the Reason

    When people today hear the word “emo,” they often aren’t thinking of what I’m thinking of. They aren’t thinking of what people I used to go to shows with, collect records with, and discover new bands with think of. Emo was a sound, a scene, a movement, and it had nothing to do with big…

  • Remembering Kurt Cobain 25 Years Later

    Remembering Kurt Cobain 25 Years Later

    “Kurt Cobain is dead”. Disc jockey Jay Gilbert, then of Cincinnati’s hard rock station WEBN, was how I learned of Cobain leaving this world. I was sitting in the front seat of my Dad’s car, one of my younger sisters in the back. I don’t know what was said before the announcement of Cobain’s suicide…