As grunge set the sonic and cultural tone for popular music in the '90s, no band was more immediately impactful or iconic ...
Thirty years after the release of the band's Unplugged in New York album, Marc Burrows explores the fraught session that saw ...
Resisting network pressure to simply play the hits, Kurt Cobain, Pat Smear, Krist Novoselic, and Dave Grohl pulled together a ...
SEATTLE was not the top of my travel destination list but ever since leaving it, I have been looking up flights to return. It ...
THE LIST: We all have those tunes that just get under our skin, but what happens when it’s one you came up with in the first ...
“Come As You Are” was one of the only Nirvana hits the band played. Cobain’s voice ached throughout the chorus, creating an unforgettable and deeply moving performance. The guitar is piercing during ...
In the case of Nirvana we should, of course ... letting the melodies stand on their own and replacing hits with covers by bands he loved, the more obscure the better (“I smell ratings” a deeply ...
It was homemade recording, the music was raw and heavy ... A few months later, Nirvana would release its classic album “Nevermind.” Propelled by the hit single “Smells Like Teen Spirit ...
Instead of playing the hits, they delivered a 14-song setlist which showed their versatility. This was never about capturing the energy of a Nirvana gig; this was a quieter, more introspective ...
Kurt Cobain destroyed a cheap Japanese copy of a Fender Stratocaster on stage at one of Nirvana's first shows. Now you can ...