Thirty years after the release of the band's Unplugged in New York album, Marc Burrows explores the fraught session that saw ...
According to Nirvana guitar tech Earnie Bailey, Cobain was far from a vintage guitar fiend, and had no qualms with making his ...
Resisting network pressure to simply play the hits, Kurt Cobain, Pat Smear, Krist Novoselic, and Dave Grohl pulled together a ...
His persona was curated as much as any other rockstar; Nirvana had a brand image, after all. They were angsty, they pushed limits, they played loud. So when MTV Unplugged invited them to play a ...
Nirvana, one of the most influential grunge bands of the ’90s, recorded their first live session at MTV Unplugged in November 1993, five months before the death of lead singer Kurt Cobain. The live ...
It’ll be no surprise to find divided opinions among music lovers on the unplugged series. Eric Clapton and Nirvana sold close to a total of 40 million albums for their two MTV albums combined.
On release, it went straight to number one on Billboard, which hadn't been seen for an MTV Unplugged record since the days of ...
Nirvana's acoustic performance for the MTV Unplugged series on 18 November 1993 is now considered one of history's greatest live performances. Getty Images Cobain died just five months after the ...
MTV Video Music Awards 2017 nominations Previous artists to do Unplugged sets include Nirvana, Jay-Z, Lauryn Hill, Adele, Mariah Carey and Katy Perry. "At MTV, the brand equity is still so strong ...
“He said, ‘I want candles and Stargazer lilies,’” remembered Alex Coletti, producer of Nirvana’s celebrated MTV Unplugged show. “I said, ‘Like a funeral?’ He said, ‘Yes, exactly.’ ...
After a grand finale at Brooklyn Bowl, the lifelong devotees and uncanny impersonators of Nirvana decided to retire ... its Deervana full-album cover of MTV Unplugged–which famously closes ...