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Which leads to the defining question about Ben Kweller. What has he got that all the other guitar-toting guys don't? Most obviously, Kweller has a tale of woe. In 1996, when he was just 15, his garage band, Radish, was signed by Nirvana guru Danny Goldberg to a major-label deal and was subsequently profiled at Proustian length in the New Yorker. The album that came out of the experience, Restraining Bolt, wasn't bad, but Kweller could not have marshaled more jealous cultural forces against him had he been handed a MacArthur genius grant at graduation. There...
...have cared less. I knew none of his songs, and close to nothing about grunge, until a few months later, when a friend made me a mix that included “Teen Spirit” and “Polly,” and I soon owned every Nirvana album. Now, between the poster of 5-year-old Kurt on my door in Quincy, the antique Fender Mustang (my first guitar, and the one famously endorsed by Cobain) my guitar teacher found for me in a used guitar shop in Greenwich Village, and my outdated, less than tidy fashion...
When I hear a Nirvana song on the radio, I understand all over again why their music has such lasting appeal. When juxtaposed with Limp Bizkit’s overbearing machismo, Creed’s creepy blend of pop and religion, or John Mayer’s annoying, emo voice, Cobain’s gut-wrenching howl and skillfully dissonant guitar-playing are as refreshing as a brick in Sean Paul’s face. Today, 10 years after Cobain’s suicide, his music appeals to us for the same reasons it did in 1991, when...
...soul roots for UAB. So when Mo Finley head-faked a flying Chuck Hayes, stepped forward and drained a game-winning 18-foot jumper with 12 seconds left on Sunday night, I hit basketball nirvana...
...with what I would expect to hear from an athlete, a coach, or a team in general. I could match specific quotes with actual events that have happened this year to Harvard and other schools around the Ivy League. In an attempt to help you reach this state of nirvana, I’m going to share with you some of the sound bytes and references from my experience in a veritable “Section Twilight Zone...