In another life, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Imaad Wasif might have been a poet or a priest. He draws inspiration from beyond the veil, seeking connections and cosmic patters in the hopes of expressing the simplest but most profound message to his listeners: We are not alone. The urgency of that communication, and his need to [...]

Lou Reed once asked, “What becomes a legend most?” No doubt the unfailingly modest Lou Barlow would blanch at being called a “legend.” And yet when you take the long-view, few artists have been as prolific, productive, and influential over the last 20 years. Barlow burst onto the scene as the bass-player in the seminal [...]

This is the soundtrack to the intriguing documentary of Kurt Cobain’s life that, as of this writing, I have yet to see. Apparently, the entire film is somewhat of a biopic “narrated” by Cobain utilizing conversations tape-recorded by Come As You Are author Michael Azerrad. Though this soundtrack contains no Nirvana music (it does contain [...]