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Alice In Chains’ Beautiful Tribute Ballad “Black Gives Way To Blue”

The band's tribute to their late lead vocalist

“It’s a really intense song and a really open-hearted song because of Layne and the experience that we all went through,” said Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell of the band’s song “Black Gives Way to Blue,” from their album … Continue reading

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Song About Loss: “Ordinary World,” by Duran Duran

Duran Duran's hit single details the intricate grieving process

1993 single “Ordinary World” is an homage to loved ones who have died. The song serves as a remembrance of foregone times, and details the occasional yearning for those times that everyone experiences when dealing with the death of a … Continue reading

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Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum Releases “A Crow Looked at Me”

In his most intimate album yet, a singer-songwriter bares all in the wake of his wife's death

“A Crow Looked at Me,” the new album by Mount Eerie, the solo project of Washington based singer-songwriter/producer Phil Elverum, was written in the wake of his late wife’s death, as he processed the tragic loss and began to come … Continue reading

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