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Written by Andrea Domanick, produced by Rosalie Atkinson Apr. 26, 2021 MORE “It was astonishing how it was so picked up so rapidly and became the mainstream success it was,” KCRW music critic Eric J. Lawrence says of Nirvana’s 1991 album “Nevermind.” Photo by Polly Herzeleid Valo. In 1991, radio stations nationwide didn’t know it yet, but they were shuffling through records that would go on to define the hard rock sound of the decade. College radio stations pushed these albums, looking to buck pop music trends in favor of some...

In December of 1980, the jazz musician and activist Hugh Masekela was set to return to South Africa for the first time in twenty years. His friend Vic Moloi got him on the phone and told him it was time. It was time for him to return to the country his global liberation work had gotten him banned from. Hugh Masekela performing at SOBs NYC, July 9th, 1998. Photo by David Corio. Masekela left South Africa 20 years earlier. Shortly after the Sharpeville Massacre.  It happened on March 21st, 1960, in the South African township of Sharpeville, when a day of demonstrations against pass laws wore o...