Nirvana was an American rock band formed in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1987.

Founded by lead singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic, the band went through a succession of drummers, most notably Chad Channing, before recruiting Dave Grohl in 1990.

Nirvana's success popularized alternative rock and grunge rock, and they were often referenced as the figurehead band of Generation X. Their music maintains a popular following and continues to influence modern rock culture.

EMINƎM is an American rapper and record producer. He is credited with popularizing hip hop in middle America and is critically acclaimed as one of the greatest rappers of all time.

Eminem's global success and acclaimed works are widely regarded as having broken racial barriers for the acceptance of white rappers in popular music.

While much of his transgressive work during the late 1990s and early 2000s made him widely controversial, he came to be a representation of popular angst of the American underclass and has been cited as an influence for many artists of various genres.

Johnny Cash was an American country singer-songwriter.

Much of Cash's music contained themes of sorrow, moral tribulation, and redemption, especially in the later stages of his career.

He was known for his deep, calm bass-baritone voice, the distinctive sound of his Tennessee Three backing band characterized by train-like chugging guitar rhythms, a rebelliousness coupled with an increasingly somber and humble demeanor, free prison concerts, and a trademark all-black stage wardrobe which earned him the nickname "The Man in Black"

Clint Mansell is an English musician, singer, and composer.

He served as the lead singer and multi-instrumentalist of alt-rock band Pop Will Eat Itself before embarking on a career as a film score composer.

Mansell moved to the United States after the dissolution of the group and started working with filmmaker Darren Aronofsky.

He has subsequently become an award-winning, Golden Globe and Grammy-nominated film composer, collaborating extensively with Aronofsky and writing scores for dozens of other films (both shorts and features), TV series, and video games.

Daft Punk were a French electronic music duo formed in 1993 in Paris by Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo.

Widely regarded as one of the most influential acts in dance music history, they achieved popularity in the late 1990s as part of the French house movement.

They garnered critical acclaim and commercial success in the years following, combining elements of house music with funk, disco, indie rock and pop.

Officially unreleased (ultra rare - 1984 bootleg version) - remastered

From Kanye or Ye, the pop star for our morally implicated times; an instinctive consumer with a mouthful of diamonds and furtive bad conscience, a performer who lives the American Dream to its fullest with a creeping sense of the spiritual void at its heart.
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy captures that essence in full.

A massive, paradigm-exploding piece of pop maximalism and prog-rap.

A Pink Floyd–sized, King Crimson–sampling $3 million, 68-minute behemoth in the age of shrinking budgets.

An utterly dazzling portrait of a 21st-century schizoid man that is by turns sickeningly egocentric, contrite, wise, stupid and self-mocking.

MBDTF is an amalgamation of the luxurious soul of 2004's The College Dropout, the symphonic pomp of Late Registration, the gloss of 2007's Graduation, and the emotionally exhausted electro of 2008's 808s & Heartbreak.

Second studio album by American rock band Neutral Milk Hotel, is predominantly indie rock and psychedelic folk, and is characterized by an intentionally low-quality sound.

Traditional rock instruments like the guitar and drums are paired with less conventional instruments such as a singing saw, uilleann pipes, and "zanzithophone" (Casio digital horn).

The lyrics are surrealistic and opaque, with themes ranging from nostalgia to love, and were partially inspired by The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.

You're Gonna Miss It All is the second studio album by American emo band Modern Baseball.

Like their debut album Sports, You're Gonna Miss It All was written while the band members were attending college.

Primarily a hip hop album, To Pimp a Butterfly incorporates numerous other musical styles spanning the history of African-American music, most prominently jazz, funk, and soul.

Lyrically, it features political commentary and personal themes concerning African-American culture, racial inequality, depression, and institutional discrimination.

This thematic direction was inspired by Lamar's tour of historic sites during his visit to South Africa, such as Nelson Mandela's jail cell on Robben Island

The cast and crew recorded 40 original songs; 33 are featured in the movie.

A number of critics noted the unusually high quality of many of the individual songs on the soundtrack, how well they reflected the styles and times they were attempting to spoof, and how well they stood on their own as quality compositions.

Looking to prove that any man can be pushed past his breaking point to madness, The Joker attempts to drive Commissioner Gordon insane.

Refusing to give up, Gordon struggles to maintain his sanity with the help of Batman in a desperate effort to best the madman.

And as the horrifying origin of the Clown Prince of Crime is finally revealed, will the thin line that separates Batman’s nobility and The Joker’s insanity snap once and for all?

Legendary writer Alan Moore takes on the origin of comics’ greatest super-villain, The Joker —and changes Batman’s world forever.

Comic book adaptation of the 1975 O.T. Nelson novel about a virus wiping out everyone on the entire earth who is not prepubescent.

In the aftermath, children struggle to survive.

In one neighborhood, a girl named Lisa Nelson helps to forge a new society.

In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind.

Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions.

Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called the Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.

Sin City is the title for a series of neo-noir comics by Frank Miller. It set the gold standard for crime comics, both for Miller’s unflinching stories and for his visceral, powerfully charged art

The first story originally appeared in “Dark Horse Presents Fifth Anniversary Special” (April, 1991), and continued in Dark Horse Presents #51–62 from May 1991 to June 1992, under the title of Sin City.

The intertwining stories, with frequently recurring characters, take place in Basin City

Sidney Sheldon was an American writer, director, and producer.

First working on Broadway plays, and then in motion pictures, notably writing the successful comedy The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, which earned him an Oscar in 1948.

He went on to work in television, where his works spanned a 20-year period

After turning 50, he began writing best-selling romantic suspense novels, such as Master of the Game, The Other Side of Midnight and Rage of Angels.

His 18 novels have sold over 300 million copies in 51 languages.
Sheldon is consistently cited as one of the top-10 best-selling fiction writers of all time.

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS was an English science-fiction writer, science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.

2001: A Space Odyssey, Clarke's most famous work, was extended well beyond the 1968 movie as the Space Odyssey series.

In 1982, Clarke wrote a sequel titled 2010: Odyssey Two, which was made into a film in 1984.

Clarke wrote two further sequels which have not been adapted into motion pictures: 2061: Odyssey Three (published in 1987) and 3001: The Final Odyssey (published in 1997).

Guy Delisle is a Canadian cartoonist and animator, best known for his graphic novels about his travels, such as Shenzhen (2000), Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea (2003), Burma Chronicles (2007), and Jerusalem (2011).

John Arne Sæterøy, better known by the pen name Jason, is a Norwegian cartoonist, known for his sparse drawing style and silent, anthropomorphic animal characters.

He was nominated for two Ignatz Awards (2000: Outstanding Story and Outstanding Series, 2001: Outstanding Story and Outstanding Series), received praise in Time, and won the Harvey Award for best new talent in 2002, as well as several Eisner Awards

Charles Bukowski was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer.

His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his adopted home city of Los Angeles.

Bukowski's work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work.

The FBI kept a file on him as a result of his column 'Notes of a Dirty Old Man' in the LA underground newspaper Open City