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Recently, as we were finishing this year’s 100 Bands You Need To Know special (AP 309, on sale March 4), our annual look forward at what the newest noise in our scene is, we noticed a whole bunch of publications were looking back, specifically at one album: Green Day’s Dookie, which celebrated its 20th anniversary […]

Recently, I was led to believe that Chicago rock band the Orwells blew up the internet with a “wild,” “high-energy” and “amazing” appearance on The Late Show With David Letterman. Now I like to keep up with what Warped Tour Nation and Planet Pitchfork deem as the proverbial “shit,” so I ponied up a click […]

We hope that 2014 is going to be the year you stop settling for compressed-to-hell MP3s and start collecting vinyl albums. Records sound vastly superior when compared against those compressed MP3s you got for free. They have great artwork, lyric sheets (usually) and extensive notes about the music, as well as voluminous “thank you” lists […]

Nirvana are set to join the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, alongside other 2014 inductees Kiss, Cat Stevens, Hall And Oats, Linda Ronstadt, Peter Gabriel, Andrew Loog Oldham, Brian Epstein and The E Street Band. 2014 marked the first year Nirvana were eligible for nomination, due to their first single, “Love Buzz,” being released in […]

Nirvana and The Replacements are among the sixteen artists newly nominated for induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2014. The youngest band on the list and also a favorite to be selected, Nirvana barely fall within the ceremony's 25 year eligibility window with their 1989 debut, Bleach. If chosen, the band would be […]

Former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic confirmed, in a recent interview with Spotify, that he recorded bass for one song set to appear on Modest Mouse's long-in-the-works new album. Novoselic described his contribution as a “pretty edgy, distorted bass riff,” and has apparently been jamming with the indie rockers since as far back as last summer. Modest Mouse […]

MTV debuted “Nirvana Live and Loud” on New Year's Eve in 1993. Now, 10 years later, MTV and VH1 have unveiled two never-before-seen rehearsals and two performances from the concert. The news coincides with the 20th anniversary and re-issue of Nirvana's third and final album, In Utero.  Starting today, MTV and VH1 will roll out exclusive performances via […]

Nirvana's classic album, In Utero, is set to get the 20th anniversary deluxe reissue treatment on Sept. 24 via Universal Music, much like Nevermind did in 2011. With 60 tracks over three discs, and an additional 29 on a DVD, the super deluxe full box set includes countless demos, b-sides, alternate mixes, rare and live tracks, and audio […]

A Nirvana TV teaser has surfaced. According to the press release, the video is an obscure and frankly slightly disturbing promotional TV teaser for the band's third and final album In Utero. The album was released in 1993 via DGC Records. In honor of In Utero's 20th anniversary, the album is set to be reissued […]

Nirvana's classic (and final) album, In Utero, turns 20 this Sept., and, as with Nervermind two years ago, it will receive a deluxe reissue to mark the occasion. The Steve Albini-recorded album marked a huge sonic departure from the group's breakthrough, Nevermind, and spawned hits like “Heart-Shaped Box” and “All Apologies.” Tragically, frontman Kurt Cobain took his own life […]

Going out on top is an art mastered by a wise few artists who leave in their wake not 10 years of novelty albums, but explosions and the ashes of their contemporaries. Here are seven artists who knew that giving up a great thing is sometimes the best thing to do to keep it great […]

Yesterday, we brought you the news of Sir Paul McCartney's and the remaining members of Nirvana's collaborative performance at the 12-12-12 Hurricane Sandy relief concert at Madison Square Garden. Sirvana (Nirvcartney? McCartvana?) performed an original song titled “Cut Me Some Slack,” which you can pre-order on iTunes. Hear a preview clip of the song and […]

When news hit AP that Paul McCartney reunited the living members of Nirvana to play the 12-12-12 Hurricane Sandy benefit at Madison Square Garden, we were like, “What?”  Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear all together again. Cool, right? Then, when we found out that the knighted Beatle was performing with them, we were […]

The Beautiful Ones have released a cover of Nirvana's “Drain You.” Drain You (Nirvana) by The Beautiful Ones

Frances Bean Cobain has created a Twitter account that she is using to dispute police reports about a recent break-in at her home. In the following statement from Cobain's Twitter, she states that a man identified by the L.A.P.D. as “22-year-old transient Marc James Franco,” who plead “not guilty” to burglary charges on October 16, […]