Kurt Cobain of Nirvana. Photo: WireImage. Kurt Cobain died 30 years ago this week. This is where you expect me to say something about how time flies and not believing it could be 30 years already. But it seems about right. All the change the world has seen since…

Original photo: Lizzo at the the 65th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 5, 2023. Photo courtesy The Recording Academy. Lizzo is upset. That’s fine and normal and human and everything. The singer got on social media, which is usually a bad idea when you’re having an emotional…

Insert Foot getting misty-eyed over “Masters of the Air.” I finished “Masters of the Air” last week and need to get a few things out of the way. Yes, it’s schmaltzy. No, the real flyers in the “Bloody Hundredth” didn’t look anything like Austin Butler. Especially Major Gale “Buck”…

Insert Foot has some suggestion for the Academy Awards. I was going to write something serious about the Oscars because I used to be a film writer and have many important opinions about things with which you should agree and we can all feel smart. Then I realized I…

Mike Malinin performs with the Goo Goo Dolls at Charter One Pavilion at Northerly Island in Chicago, on July 20, 2010. Photo By Raymond Boyd/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. Mike Malinin was working his day job at a friend’s Nashville liquor store in early 2023 when a singer in her…

Beyoncé performs on the opening night of the Renaissance World Tour in at Friends Arena in Stockholm, Sweden on May 10, 2023. Photo by Mason Poole. Beyoncé has the no. 1 country song on Billboard with “Texas Hold ‘Em.” That’s generating a lot of talk, most of it hysterical…

Ace Frehley, “10,000 Volts.” When KISS was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of fame in 2014, Gene Simmons said the guitar playing of Ace Frehley was “often imitated but never duplicated.” 10,000 Volts Ace Frehley MNRK, Feb. 23 6/10 Get the album on Amazon Music. It was…

Rendering: Adam Pardee/STAFF. As you prepare to shovel seven pounds of bean dip into your pie hole and slurp down 25 Budweisers using a football game as an excuse, making yourself wish you were dead come Monday morning, I pose a question: Why? Doesn’t Super Bowl Sunday usually feel…

Insert Foot is cool with Taylor Swift but less so with the NFL and the Super Bowl. Let’s talk Tay-Tay, Trav-Trav and how, yes, of course the biggest story in professional football continues right through the Super Bowl, because how could it not? The points: In this corner, the…

Insert Foot on the demise of Pitchfork and music criticism. I thought I had it bad getting death threats from 14-year-old girls when I’d write that the Backstreet Boys were on their last legs. I was right, but the death threats and insults were kind of fun. It beats…