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On February 1, 2016, Jon Bunch, former lead singer of Pompano Beach emo band Further Seems Forever, was found dead in Irvine, California at the age of 45. After months of waiting, the cause of death has been ruled a suicide. Bunch first found fame as the frontman of Southern...
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Those are people who died, died / They were all my friends, and they died That 1980 lyric, penned by the late Jim Carroll, prefigured a spate of celebrity deaths, and while the words describe the demise of junkies and the destitute, the song’s repeated refrain could easily be applied...
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Once, at a poker game, a guy told me I couldn't appreciate Led Zeppelin the way he did because he grew up with them. I argued I grew up listening to them too, that even though they had broken up by then, I played their CDs until they were all...
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2016 has seen the loss of many notable musicians — including Jon Bunch, one of the greatest frontmen to emerge from the post-punk era. He was known for co-founding L.A. based band Sense Field, and later joining South Florida emo band Further Seems Forever. For "reasons still unknown," according to...
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Today, the sun rose in the same way it presumably has every single day since time began. And today, life endures generally unabated. But today...well, today is different, because today is the first day since December 24, 1945 that this forsaken, spinning blue ball of suffering has existed in the...
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When news arrived of the passing of Stone Temple Pilots lead singer Scott Weiland this past Thursday, no one who came of age in the '90s should have been surprised. Few rock stars of his era, it seemed, took the cliché of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll more literally...
