The sudden and untimely death of the Cranberries frontwoman Dolores O’Riordan made for another sad start to another year, with the loss of another great, iconic rock star of the last two decades. Dolores, who was found deceased on January 15th in a London hotel room, was only 46. As I noted at the deaths of both Chris Cornell and Scott Weiland, it has felt like many or even most of the best or most important musical voices from my personal favorite era of music have had short lives. One of Dolores’s most famous songs was the Cranberries’ mega-hit single … Continue reading DOLORES O’RIORDAN, ‘Zombie’, and the Lost Art of Music as Protest…