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Only Noise: In the Wake of Kurt's Suicide, Courtney Love Changed My Life

Carla DeSantis Black, AudioFemme, 4 April 2019

ONLY NOISE explores music fandom with poignant personal essays that examine the ways we're shaped by our chosen soundtrack. This week, legendary ROCKRGRL editor Carla Black remembers how her sympathy for a grieving Courtney Love in the wake of Kurt Cobain's death twenty-five years ago sparked a decade-long journey to bring gender parity to modern rock.

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