Everclear

Rising from the ashes of late-'90s teen pop ephemera, Marion Elise Ravn (known as simply Marion Raven) has been around for a while. In 1994, the ten-year-old Raven recorded a collection of children's songs for EMI Norway with her friend Marit Larsen. The pair went on to form M2M in 1998, a doe-eyed addition to an overstuffed pop scene reigned over by Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera…

This instructional video from Warner Brothers teaches beginning guitarists how to play four popular alternative rock songs: "I Will Buy You a New Life" by Everclear; "Iris" by Goo Goo Dolls; "Shine" by Collective Soul; and "You" by Candlebox. Hosted by professional guitarist Tommy Anthony, SongXpress: Modern Rock for Guitar, Vol. 1 covers all the chords, riffs, and guitar patterns that form the foundation of these modern rock mainstays.

Woodstock '99: 3 More Days of Peace and Music (DVDRip)
DVDRip | 1999 | 02:27:13 | 1.276 GB | XviD | 1100 KB/s | 640x480 AR 4:3 | 29.970 FPS | MP3 CBR 128 KB/s 2-Ch 48000 Hz | Language: English (Explicit Content)
Genre: Live, Various Artists

The 25th anniversary of Woodstock was such a resounding success, both commercially and critically, that it was inevitable that Woodstock 99 would appear on the 30th anniversary of the legendary free rock festival. Woodstock 99 was a different beast than any of its predecessors, however. The promoters designed it as a mercenary event, trying to earn as much money as possible in the course of three days. They picked a massive abandoned air force base in Rome, NY, and built plywood fences around the perimeters so they wouldn't have any gatecrashers. They decided to not allow any outside containers – a common and logical safeguard, but that also meant everyone had to pay for water in the middle of the summer. All this was a prelude to a weekend of mayhem that ended in riots and rape. Some may argue that the riots were a reaction to the greed of the promoters, and they have a point – but that doesn't excuse the numerous sexual assaults and rapes that occurred during the festival. Those assaults and the fires and the aggressively macho alt-metal acts became the legacy of Woodstock 99, and that's probably not what Epic had in mind when they signed a deal to release a double-disc set of highlights in October 1999.

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VA - AOX: The Regeneration Mixtapes Box Set (2014)
MP3 V0 | ~240 kbps | 6 CD | 6:41:59 | 698 MB
Alternative, Rock, Indie, Electronic, '90s

The '90s were known for a brooding style of rock music, but also for several emerging and revisited genres such as trip hop or neo-swing. Following the eclectic path which characterized the later years of this decade, the series attempted to reunite memorable songs while meticulously avoiding overplayed clichés and filler tracks. The resulting playlist is a well-brewed tribute to Generation X.