nirvana

Ebay isn’t just a place you can go to snag a vintage T-shirt or pay three times the price for a vinyl record you missed out on when the first pressing hit the street. It’s also home to some pretty bizarre band-related items, from  listings for stage props or a member’s high school yearbook. Head […]

Italy’s Rockin’ 1,000 project took over the internet last summer when they convinced the Foo Fighters to play a show in their hometown with this epic video of them performing “Learn To Fly.” (Since then, that video has amassed over 32 million views.) Read more: Falling shovel sounds just like intro to Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” […]

Nirvana's MTV Unplugged session is legendary, and the guitar that frontman Kurt Cobain played in the show has been passed on from former wife Courtney Love to their daughter Frances Bean Cobain. But in the midst of Frances' divorce, her soon-to-be ex-husband Isaiah Silva is claiming that the guitar now belongs to him, and he won't be […]

A handful of unreleased Nirvana recordings have surfaced after a fan purchased an original recording reel of the band’s Pachyderm Sessions. The track listing, according to Alternative Nation, contains two versions of “Dumb,” three versions of “Marigold” and two previously unheard tracks.  Listen: Hear Kurt Cobain’s vocals isolated from Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” Of the […]

Most classical music comes from the great classical composers—but it doesn't have to be that way. Many classical performers take inspiration from plenty of sources, including plenty of modern punk, rock and alternative bands. We found seven great classical tributes to modern rock songs. Whether you're studying, relaxing or just want calmer, lyric-less background music, […]

Well, this is an intriguing combination: singer/rapper Post Malone took to the stage at Coachella to perform a rendition of Nirvana's “Lithium.” Check it out below. Read more: Falling In Reverse, Crown The Empire members caught in middle of TMZ report Post Malone was onsite at Coachella to join Jack Ü for “White Iverson.” He covered “Lithium” during […]

The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame exhibit Never Give Up: Alternative Press Magazine at 30 only has one week left in its run, until the beginning of April arrives. If you've got a chance to be in Cleveland and check it out, you should; where else will you see all the unprinted photos of bands […]

Last year, Robotic Empire released a Nirvana tribute album, Whatever Nevermind, featuring Circa Survive’s cover of “Drain You.” Robotic Empire is back at it again with the Nirvana jams! The label has announced their third Nirvana tribute LP to be released on Record Store Day, Doused In Mud, Soaked In Bleach, featuring Circa Survive's new […]

An alternate version of Nirvana’s “Marigold,” featuring drummer Dave Grohl on vocals, has surfaced online.  Listen: Hear Kurt Cobain’s vocals isolated from Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit”  According to ConsequenceOfSound, Grohl originally wrote the track for his 1992 solo project Pocketwatch. A different version was later featured on Nirvana’s third studio album, In Utero.  Read […]

Kye Smith (who’s known for videos of himself drumming through both Foo Fighters and Blink-182’s discographies) has posted a video where he drums through Nirvana’s entire discography. He starts with 1989’s Bleach and seamlessly works his way through Nevermind and In Utero.  Listen: Hear Kurt Cobain’s vocals isolated from Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” The whole […]

Nirvana released their “Heart-Shaped Box” music video in 1993, The clip featured, among others, six-year-old Kelsey Rohr.  Now, 23 years later, Rohr has re-connected with Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl. Listen: Hear Kurt Cobain’s vocals isolated from Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” “Today Dave Grohl and I picked up right where we left off 23 years […]

Audio rips of Kurt Cobain’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” vocal track have been floating around the internet for a good while now. The song itself is iconic, or course, but there’s something about Cobain’s vocals that separated Nirvana from not only grunge, but the rest of music as a whole.  Listen: Someone isolated Courtney Love's vocals and guitar […]

In a recent interview with Off Camera, Foo Fighters headmaster Dave Grohl opened up about Nirvana and Kurt Cobain. “Unfortunately, Nirvana became too big too quick,” he admitted. “Bands are like families that go through uncomfortable growing pains, and if it happens all at once, it’s just too much to handle.” You can watch a […]

Peyton Sawyer – One Tree Hill “Every song ends, but is that any reason not to enjoy the music?” Before Myspace’s heyday, Peyton Sawyer reigned as the ultimate emo scene queen. Though just a high school cheerleader full of raging teen angst, she single-handedly ran booking duties for the nightclub Tric—securing the likes of Jimmy […]

To coincide with Montage Of Heck, the recent HBO documentary focusing on the life of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, director Brett Morgen has curated a chronological compilation of early Cobain demos and bedroom recordings, titled Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings, which will be released on November 13 as a soundtrack to the film.  On the […]

Over the weekend, the Used performed a career-spanning headline set during the return of Taste Of Chaos in San Bernardino, California. Before jumping into their scene classic, “A Box Full Of Sharp Objects,” the band played amended covers of songs from both Rage Against The Machine and Nirvana. You can watch a fan-shot video of […]

Science has decreed that Nirvana's “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is the “most iconic” song of all time, based on a special algorithm that measures key, BPM, chord variety, lyrical content, timbral variety, and sonic variance. What a time to be alive. [via SPIN] Read more: Watch Nirvana play “Smells Like Teen Spirit” for the first time “We […]

In April of 1991, Nirvana debuted an in-progress version of their current-day smash hit, “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” They performed the track during a gig at the OK Hotel in Seattle. In the video below, you can hear a fan shout, “Play ‘Free Bird’!” before Kurt jumps into the track’s infamous lead riff. Those in […]

People have been talking about Nirvana ever since frontman Kurt Cobain formed the band in 1987. Over the past few years, however, talk has seemingly been more prominent than ever. And as late, previously unreleased tracks from the group have been popping up all over the place. “E. Coli,” a nearly nine-minute jam, is the […]

Before Kurt Cobain formed Nirvana, he fronted a band called Fecal Matter. The group, which also consisted of future Melvins drummer Dale Crover on bass, only released one demo throughout their time together, titled Illiteracy Will Prevail. (Kurt had just dropped out of high school at the time.)  Read more: Almost all of new Kurt Cobain […]