“It’s worth noting throughout history, kids come around the corner to a multitude of casualties.”—The Hold Steady,…

“Dude, I have no problem with being pop. Pop means pop-u-lar, which is cool with me.”—Fred Durst, from the August 1999…

“It’s the sound of a bunch of guys on coke, in the studio, not giving a fuck.”—Noel Gallagher on Oasis’ Be Here Now, in…

“Who doesn’t want to go to a concert to hear their favorite songs, regardless of who’s singing or who’s playing it?…

“Experiments will be left to a small avant garde, way out on the left, very solemn and romantic, and the bubblegum…

“You can’t fire me because I quit.”—Nirvana, “Scentless Apprentice”

“Each artist had to grapple with what’s supposed to be a dichotomy between being popular and being ‘alternative.’ Once…

“There’s a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The…

“The Guns N’ Roses it’s okay to like.”—A headline about Nirvana from British music weekly New Musical Express

“I don’t want to sound snobby, but I was a snob back then, so why not—it wasn’t punk rock, it wasn’t underground, it…