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Kevin O'Donnell

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Kevin O’Donnell has worked as an editor at Rolling Stone and SPIN and his writing on music, books and pop culture has been published in the Washington Post, NPR, Slate, the Village Voice, and other publications. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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G-Side, The ONE…COHESIVE…

Shock-rappers Odd Future may have been the hip-hop rookies of the year, b… more »

Britney Spears, Femme Fatale (…

In a year when divas like Gaga, Katy and Rihanna continued to dominate th… more »

Mastodon, The Hunter

Since forming in 1999, Mastodon have made some of the most challenging an… more »

Mastodon, The Hunter (Deluxe V…

Since forming in 1999, Mastodon have made some of the most challenging an… more »

Mastodon, The Hunter (Edited V…

Since forming in 1999, Mastodon have made some of the most challenging an… more »

20 Overlooked LPs from the Gru…

When Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was released in 1991, it changed… more »

Gas Huffer, One Inch Masters…

From the Ventures-cribbing opener "Crooked Bird" to the goofy garage-rock… more »

The Gits, Frenching the Bully…

This Seattle-via-Ohio group were fronted by Mia Zapata, whose impressive … more »

Love Battery, Dayglo

As the album title suggests, Love Battery specialized in psychedelic-ting… more »

Some Velvet Sidewalk, Avalanch…

Some Velvet Sidewalk ran with Olympia's K Records crew and, like most Nor… more »

Icky Joey, Pooh

A side-project for Love Battery's Jason Tillman, Pooh fused the psychedel… more »

Mudhoney, Mudhoney

If there was any band poised to break on a level equal to Nirvana and Pea… more »

L7, Smell the Magic

The major-label follow-up to their 1988 Sub Pop debut doesn't work many c… more »

Skin Yard, Skin Yard

Jack Endino was best known as the man who produced Nirvana's debut Bleach… more »

Failure, Comfort

This Los Angeles group's 1992 debut is raw, filthy and corroded like Nirv… more »

The Jesus Lizard, Down…

These Austin, Texas-based hardcore terrorists were one of Kurt Cobain's f… more »

Veruca Salt, Eight Arms to Hol…

From their Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-referencing name to the skim… more »

Hole, Pretty on the Inside…

Courtney Love had clear, perhaps calculated, career ambitions long before… more »

Babes in Toyland, Spanking Mac…

Like Courtney Love, Babes in Toyland's singer-guitarist Kat Bjelland migh… more »

Pond, Pond

Founding members Chris Brady and Charlie Campbell grew up in Juneau, Alas… more »

Tad, 8-Way Santa

Led by the oversized, outsized singer Tad Doyle, Tad remain grunge's unsu… more »

Screaming Trees, Sweet Oblivio…

Mark Lanegan's band weren't part of the Grunge Goldrush that happened in … more »

Megafaun, Megafaun

Best known as the band that once played with Justin Vernon in DeYarmond E… more »

Screaming Trees, Last Words: T…

They were one of grunge's true pioneers, releasing seven albums (among th… more »

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