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Beyond The Thrash-hold Of Cobain: Nirvana: Roseland Ballroom, New York

Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 7 August 1993

IT'S DEAFENING. Thurston Moore has his fingers in his ears. Lee Ranaldo's son Cody is wearing ear muffs. Even Courtney Love looks a little taken aback. Yes, the silence that meets the end of Nirvana's first show in six months is deafening.

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