Humble emotions of joy and grief ebb and flow in the music of Frightened Rabbit, a band from small-town Scotland who lost its lead singer, 36-year-old Scott Hutchison, to apparent suicide on Thursday.
It’s one of the most recognizable guitar riffs in rock history and it was written by a bipolar musical genius from London. “You Really Got Me” by The Kinks is only two chords, but just try to get it out of your head once you’ve heard it.
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This is Jonestown in the age of technology. The founder of an online “game” called the Blue Whale Challenge has said his victims are “biological waste,” that they were “happy to die,” and that he was “cleansing society.” The online Blue Whale Game is spreading throughout social media and the bodycount is rising. If you…
Even though I wouldn’t have called myself a fan of Linkin Park or the band’s music, I was an admirer of frontman Chester Bennington’s lyrics and so was distraught to learn about his suicide yesterday.
***TRIGGER*** Something is happening on Facebook Live, and it’s horrifying.
Suicide has been on my mind lately, ever since I started watching the show 13 Reasons Why on Netflix.
At the pinnacle of his career, immediately following the release of Soundgarden’s 1994 album Superunknown, Chris Cornell was singing about depression. Unfortunately, it was depression that ultimately brought him down. “How would I know / that this could be my fate?” he sings on Superunknown’s “Fell on Black Days.” The frontman for Soundgarden and Audioslave, and…
The longtime frontman for Depeche Mode, one of the world’s most popular and influential electronic groups was hooked on heroin. He somehow managed to not only clean up but come back more vital than before.
The Grammy-winning singer revealed she had bipolar disorder on The Oprah Winfrey Show in October of 2007. However, it was later revealed that her bipolar diagnosis was incorrect. What she had really been experiencing was depression influenced by post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), stemming from her tumultuous childhood. O’Connor is in the news this week because she tried to kill herself again.
