Nirvana

 UK Nearvana have been passionate Nirvana fans since a very young age. They grew up with the sounds of Nirvana, Pearl Jam & Mudhoney etc. This heavy influence of the 90's grunge scene and love for Nirvana is evident in the passion and feel of the songs ...

 SC One early fan was Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard, who was into it enough to put the Thermals in touch with über-indie record label Sub Pop, home to some of the band's influences, like Nirvana and Sebadoh. Despite offers from Sub Pop to ...

 MD - Reese Higgins Though all the bandmates claim a fondness for Nirvana and Sonic Youth, The Pains' sound is most often compared to shoegazy guitar bands. Above all, the band's sound is a tribute to an indie-pop sound that is immediately recognizable. ...

No Idol worship for nice guy David Cook at Sunfest, just a ... Orlando Sentinel, FL - Sean Piccoli Grunge as invented by the dark hearts of Mudhoney, Nirvana and Soundgarden is a distant relation. Cook presented Heroes, Declaration, Light On, Avalanche and Come Back to Me as affirmations o...

  USA Kurt Cobain and grunge took the fun out of rock and roll."—Brandon Flowers isn't going to be overdosing anytime soon [NME] "[They're] just like us. They ... get drunk, talk shit, go to jail. But they just wear the little hats. ...

 UK Alternative rock may forever be associated with Nirvana and their early-90s grunge contemporaries, but for many the best music – the really good music – came years before the Seattle trio signed to a major label. And Kurt Cobain would be the first to ...

 IL I don’t want to call it grunge because it wasn’t called grunge at the time, but stuff like Nirvana’s first album, Mudhoney…If you listen to the song ‘Almost Lost’, that whole beginning had got that fuzzed-out guitar a little bit, and it’sa simple, ...

Boston Globe Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana (I hope she doesn't do this one, but she probably will. It'll be safe. She'll play the guitar, because this is every guitarist's favorite song besides "Stairway to Heaven." She'll do it well and be safe on Wednesday, ...

And then there's that autobiography, the current focus of his creative attention, with help from Michael Azerrad, author of Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana. Look for it in fall 2010. Is there a working title yet? ''Not even close,'' says Mould. ...

 Malaysia They covered Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit before bowling the crowd over with EMF’s Unbelievable. I never was a fan of electronica, but I might be now after watching this band from Indonesia. Agrikulture was just the perfect warm-up to NERD, ...

 MN Soundgarden are one of those rare 120 Minutes bands from my high school years that I still like (along with Sonic Youth, Mudhoney, Nirvana, Beck, Dinosaur Jr. -- OK, maybe "rare" was the wrong word here), and between Chris' baffling James Bond theme ...

 AZ Also in 1994, police confiscated ammunition and four guns from singer Kurt Cobain of Nirvana. His wife, Courtney Love, had called authorities because she was afraid Cobain was contemplating suicide. In 1996, the Sex Pistols announced they were ...

 NY Instead, she struck upon a simple solution: cash in on her rights to the song catalog of her deceased husband, grunge-era icon Kurt Cobain, Nirvana’s frontman. But the deal—in which Love sold a 50 percent interest in Cobain’s music-publishing rights ...

RIP Kurt Cobain "They dropped me off at Grandpa Joe's I kicked and screamed, said please, don't go Grandma take me home (x8) Had to eat my dinner ... it.truveo.com

 CA By Ron Donoho Curt Cobain guards the fourth-floor elevator nook. No, not the ghost of the late Nirvana lead singer; rather, a black-and-white photo of Cobain, onstage, with those haunting eyes. On another wall by the elevator hang lyrics from an ...

 IL - In picking songs to reinterpret, the band resorts to old safety nets (Nirvana gets mined again, this time with “Lithium"), logical next steps (Wilco’s ...

 NY - During the final years of his life, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain struggled with drug addiction and media pressures surrounding him and his wife, ...

 CA - Kurt Cobain, lead singer of the band Nirvana, died on April 5, 1994. The next day Juvénal Habyarimana, the president of the Republic of Rwanda, ...

 UK - Puckrick was being sassy about John Major, and Nirvana were about to close the show, with their debut British performance of Smells Like Teen Spirit. ...

Staind & Seether - 5 Reasons to go see  UK - They even drop a few Nirvana covers into their sets with frontman Shaun Morgan doing a mean Kurt Cobain on the likes of ‘You Know Your Right’, ‘Something in ...

 UK - Despite her kooky appearance, Courtney, who was married to Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain, looked healthy and seemed in high spirits as she chatted to ...

 NY - Dec 18, 2008 She "seemed very sweet," a source said of the daughter of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. "She said that she was looking for her mother. ...

  Canada - Dec 13, 2008 According to music industry insider Danny Goldberg, you can add a couple more names to the list – Bruce Springsteen and Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain. ...

All apologies, but here we are now, 17 years after Nirvana's breakthrough album irreversibly changed music, and the naked baby pictured on its cover is still chasing dollars.

By Chris Steffen The auctioneer at Christie’s smirked when he announced Monday’s lot 37, a shirt designed by Vivienne Westwood and Sex Pistols mastermind Malcom McLaren. “Fuck Your Mother!” he said, reading the shirt’s inscription. “That’s the first time I’ve ever said that up here.” It wasn’t the last — h...

By Eric Coleman - The Very Best In Deep Fried Pants Nirvana - Nevermind 5. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses 6. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds 7. David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust 8. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico 9. The Beatles - The White Album ...

 UK - Nov 18, 2008 was over a year ago and I had a mini little depression attack.' Courtney's husband, Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain, killed himself in 1994 at the age of 27.

 Australia - Nov 16, 2008 by Music-News.com - November 17 2008 Specer Eldem, the kid on the cover of Nirvana`s `Nevermind` album, has jumped back in the pool and done it again. ...

Journal of Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana (USA) - I cannot, for the life of me, Rock out to Nirvana... (or metallica, or Twisted sister or Sex pist...

 NY - Nov 13, 2008 That surreal image went on to become the cover art for arguably the most influential album of the whole decade, Nirvana's breakthrough LP, 'Nevermind. ...

By Joy A Nirvana Naked Nevermind Baby Grows Up, Reshoots Nirvana Nevermind Album Picture. 17-year-old Spencer Elden is a high school student who told MTV News last year that "it's kind of creepy [to think] that that many people have seen me ...

By By SIMON REYNOLDS Nirvana's vertiginous ascent to stardom has to be the year's most surprising success story. The single "Smells Like Teen Spirit" has been in heavy rotation on MTV, while the album "Nevermind" has sold more than half a million copies in a couple of months. What is strange about Nirvana's pop...

Superbly screwing with classic rock and grunge staples like Black Sabbath's "Iron Man," Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and Rush's "Tom Sawyer." Sure, the threesome composes originals, but that's not what gets these guys paid. ...

By Wade Tatangelo Superbly screwing with classic rock and grunge staples like Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man,” Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and Rush’s “Tom Sawyer.” Sure, the threesome composes originals, but that’s not what gets these guys paid. ...

By Eric Nowels The auction will feature over 300 pieces of memorabilia for your bidding pleasure, including items from Nirvana, Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks, the Rolling Stones, Blondie, the Velvet Underground, New Order, Devo, the Smiths, and the Cure.

Pictures of Kurt Cobain. Posted on Thursday, October 30, 2008 by Pav. A new book, 'Cobain Unseen' by Charles R. Cross, unearths a welter of compelling detail about the Nirvana frontman's pre-fame existence. Cobain. Cobain. via NME.COM ...

By Patti Ann Stafford Hardcore followers of Cobain, Nirvana’s front man, are usually outraged when new photo’s emerge or a new story is released. But these same hardcore fans are still the first to view and comment on the material. I find that amusing too. ...

 NY - Success for Nirvana was immediate after the release of their second album Nevermind in 1991, and their single Smells Like Teen Spirit became, in no time, ...

The FALL are arguably the most enigmatic, idiosyncratic and chaotic band of their generation – an acknowledged influence on The Smiths, The Happy Mondays, Nirvana and Franz Fe

 FL - Sep 25, 2008 Goldberg says Cobain was quite savvy about his image, and Goldberg quotes former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic: "You know who wanted to reach more people ...

By brocknroll The famous Nirvana album cover for “Nevermind” the one with the naked baby in a swimming pool floating toward a fishing line with a dollar bill on it, is now 17 years old. Spencer Elden looks back at the famous Nirvana cover after 17 ...

By Ryan Tate Singer Britney Spears reunited with desperate paparazzo Adnan Ghalib, who she had ditched after finding incriminating text chats with another girl on his iPhone. Just prior to taking Ghalib back, Spears was photographed bumping her head, hard. Post hoc ergo propter hoc, as Spears surel...

The re-release of The Song Remains The Same has been nominated in this years' Shockwaves NME Awards. Here is a list of the nominations in the category of Best Music DVD: Up The Shambles' - Babyshambles The Song Remains The Same' - Led Zeppelin Unplugged In New York' - Nirvana

By mjohnston Courtney Love sold Universal Pictures the rights to Charles Cross' Nirvana book Heavier Than Heaven and the Nirvana catalog as a package deal, so expect your favorite track by Kurt Cobain and Co. to be used in a sledgehammer-over-the-head way in the Love-produced Cobain biopic when it hi...

By carolinka Thursday, August 09, 2007 Top 5 Album Openers Top 5 album openers 1.Smells Like Teen Spirit-Nirvana "Nevermind" this is the reason I picked up a guitar. It was the first riff I ever learned. It is legendary. 2.Linoleum-NOFX "Punk in Drublic" This song was the first note of punk rock I ever heard. T...

Spinner.com listed Ozzy Osbourne's top 5 rock bands. He mentioned Green Day as the fifth (following Nirvana and Black Sabbath...). He said, "My album of the last year was ['American Idiot']. I thought it was fucking brilliant". Right on, Ozzy.

By zingzing If 1991 was “the year punk finally broke in America,” it wasn’t for a lack of trying. From the CBGB’s crowd in the mid to late-70s, to No New York, to SST, hardcore, the class of ’84, Steve Albini and Touch & Go, Ian Mackaye and Dischord… punk had been bubbling under the surface up and down th...

Nirvana singer's lover in band faux pas

By psmealey Charles Peterson Photography [Flash site]. You might recognize Charles's work from the grunge era. His photos of Mudhoney, Soundgarden, Nirvana and were an essential visual accompaniment to the noisy, grinding soundtrack of that era. Charles has moved well past the energetic black and...

By Maura Johnston Here's a surefire way to know which bands are on the path to being the next next Nirvana: the Livejournal community Musicsecret. Operating in the vein of mail-to-web art project Postsecret, but with more MS Paint-inspired flair, Musicsecret gives its users the opportunity to unburden t...