Michael Azerrad is a rock journalist, author and drummer. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Mojo, Spin and the New Yorker. He frequently appears on television as a commentator on rock music and was most recently the editor-in-chief of the Talkhouse. He is the author of the books Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana and Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991.
"Music journalist Azerrad provides an electric revision to his 1993
account of the defining band of the grunge movement. (...) The
band’s myriad fans will be rapt." — Publishers Weekly (starred
review)
Thirty years after its original publication, rock writer Azerrad
(Our Band Could Be Your Life) updates and nearly doubles the number
of pages of his groundbreaking Come as You Are: The Story of
Nirvana. The author intersperses hundreds of new, detailed
paragraphs throughout the original text to amplify and clarify the
earlier material. Most satisfying, he adds a lengthy epilogue which
deals with events that happened after the 1991 release of the album
Nevermind, including Kurt Cobain’s last months and tragic death in
1994. New material includes the Nirvana tours and practice sessions
that Azerrad attended; Cobain’s meeting with one of his heroes,
William Burroughs; the telltale signs that pointed to Cobain’s
self-destructive impulses and his eventual death; and the utter
remorse that Azerrad and other insiders felt after Cobain’s suicide
at age 27. VERDICT (...) Nirvana fans will want to read it. —
Library Journal (starred review)
"Michael Azerrad has always demonstrated a passionate feeling for
the ideas, the ambitions, that drive the notable moments of recent
musical history. But this annotated edition of his earlier book,
which was already a very successful biography, breaks out even
further into high art. He's the perfect narrator, now, for a very
important question, perhaps increasingly forgotten: why was punk
important and how do we talk about it now? The urgencies of this
question are everywhere in this powerful, uncertain, and profoundly
human work. Azzerad's restless plunging onward, represents the
further entanglement in deep, fraught, endangered wisdom." —
Rick Moody, bestselling author of The Ice Storm and Hotels of North
America
“Enriched with new anecdotes, insights and info-morsels, this
super-expanded Michael Azerrad classic is a great story made even
more gripping. Nirvana’s underground-overground arc becomes a prism
for understanding an entire era of rock music and pop culture.” —
Simon Reynolds, author of Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk
1978-84
"Essential for Nirvana fans." — Kirkus Reviews
"A fascinating examination of a band's rise and demise; life and
death, personality flaws and mistakes and the ways in which someone
in the public eye deals with them" — Culture Catch
“Veteran music scribe Michael Azerrad’s absorbing, admirable
and deeply personal sequel to his acclaimed 1993 bio Come As
You Are: The Story Of Nirvana. (...) [This] might be the most fully
rounded portrait of the artist to date” — Tinnitist
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