nirvana

Celebrity Net Worth has compiled an approximated list that reveals the “30 richest drummers in the world.” Green Day's Tre Cool and Blink-182's Travis Barker are among them. Check out the full list below. What do you think? 1. Ringo Starr Net Worth – $300 Million (The Beatles) 2. Phil Collins Net Worth – $250 […]

Soul Control Bore Core EP Like a horse carcass hurled off a skyscraper, Soul Control’s bloody, guts-smeared post-hardcore works best when it’s blurring by at terminal velocity. That’s not to say the Rhode Island crew aren’t good at any speed; on past releases like 2009’s (vaguely Refused-esque) Cycles and last year’s (far more Refused-esque) Get […]

Vampires Everywhere! Hellbound & Heartless This review originally ran in AP 288. Vampires Everywhere! debuted last year with Kiss The Sun Goodbye, an Auto-Tuned pop-screamo album that didn’t set the scene on fire as much as the band hoped. Now, VE! have rebranded themselves as “shock rock,” but the music on Hellbound & Heartless neither […]

Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters and Nirvana will be directing and producing an upcoming documentary on Van Nuys, California studio Sound City. In addition to Nirvana's seminal 1991 effort Nevermind being tracked there, artists such as Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty, Cheap Trick, Guns N' Roses, Fear, Rage Against The Machine, Slipknot, Nine Inch Nails […]

In a new interview with Fuse for his new book Letters To Kurt, former Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson revealed that late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain was demoing solo material around the time of his death:  “'[Kurt] was headed in a direction that was really cool. It would have been his White Album,' Erlandson says, referring to […]

Some newly revealed rare photos capture Nirvana frontman mere months before his death. Via the Huffington Post: “Jesse Frohman was just a recent graduate returning to New York City after earning a degree in economics. Though he had little professional work to his name, he caught the eye of a certain Irving Penn. Penn hired […]

Every Time I Die has launched a new podcast, dubbed The ETID Pudcast. The initial episode, available here, features live audio of the group covering Nirvana's “Tourette's.” ETID's new album Ex Lives is due out Mar. 6 via Epitaph.

You think it’s hard to write an original song? Try finding a cover song that hasn’t been done before—it’s harder than you think. That’s why we bring you Under The Covers: Each week, we’ll pit two bands who have covered the same source material against one another, and it’s up to you to decide who comes out on […]

You think it’s hard to write an original song? Try finding a cover song that hasn’t been done before—it’s harder than you think. That’s why we bring you Under The Covers: Each week, we’ll pit two bands who have covered the same source material against one another, and it’s up to you to decide who comes out on […]

The long-awaited, deluxe issue of Nirvana's Nevermind is in stores this Tuesday, Sept. 27. In honor of that, Altpress.com is happy to bring you an exclusive free download of the Story Changes' cover of Nirvana's “Breed.” The Story Changes: “Breed (Nirvana Cover)” The song appears on the band's This Is Your Moment EP, which is […]

Nirvana’s Nevermind turns 20 September 24, 2011. In honor of this anniversary, a deluxe version of Nevermind–featuring a fully remastered version of the record, b-sides, live cuts and more–is being released on September 27. This reissue is well-deserved: The seminal album famously wiped away the lingering gloss and glam from the 1980s, put a new […]

According to a post at the excellent retro-music blog Slicing Up Eyeballs, more details have emerged about the deluxe version of Nirvana's seminal 1991 album Nevermind, which is due September 27. Along with a 90-page book, the extensive bonus material will include a fully remastered version of the album and its b-sides, and audio/video of […]

On October 11, 2011, Reimagine Music will be releasing Come As You Are: A 20th Anniversary Tribute To Nirvana's Nevermind. Produced by Jim Sampas, who has also worked on tributes to the Beatles’ Rubber Soul and Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, the album features mewithoutYOU, Murder By Death, Anthony Raneri, Hawthorne Heights and others covering songs from […]

An expanded edition of Nirvana's landmark album Nevermind will be released in September. According to NME, the release will have four CDs full of “unreleased tracks, rarities, B-sides, alternate mixes, rare live recordings and BBC radio appearances.” A DVD featuring an unreleased Nirvana live show is also included. The release date is September 19–20 years […]

Everyone has his or her Nirvana story. Whether you were 9 years old and never the same after the video for “Smells Like Teen Spirit” demolished your preconceptions of music; whether a friend included a song on a mix CD for you long after frontman Kurt Cobain's death in 1994; or whether you don't even […]