Tagged: Nirvana
GoodHood Draws Axl Rose, Kurt Cobain and Ian Curtis into their Spring Collections
For their new style feature called As Worn By, the immaculately curated British boutique GoodHood collaborated with illustrator Clara Lacy to draw rock icons like Ian Curtis, Kurt Cobain, Henry Rollins, Axl Rose and Malcom … read more »
Watch Kanye West, Members of Nirvana Perform at 12-12-12 Benefit
Last night, the 12-12-12 Sandy benefit concert went down at Madison Square Garden, with a legion of superstar artists performing. Among them were a leather kilt-wearing Kanye West, who ran through a set featuring Cruel … read more »
Personal History: Ethan Greene
A young composer navigates the murky zone between making difficult music and easy listening. The life of a classical music composer is, by and large, an unglamorous one. Take, for example, the case of Philip … read more »
Dive, “Bambi Slaughter” (Kurt Cobain Home Demo Cover) MP3
Nirvana are not even close to the primary influence—that would be shoegaze, Cure-style emotive guitar, and any band that loves a delay pedal in a really pretty way—we hear in Dive‘s music, but it doesn’t … read more »
Dive, “How Long Have You Known?” MP3
Dive is a Brooklyn four-piece helmed by Beach Fossils’ on-tour guitar player, Zachary Cole Smith. The band’s described by their label, Captured Tracks, as “one part THC and two parts MDMA.” Today Pitchfork premiered their … read more »
By The Numbers: Nirvana’s Nevermind
In By The Numbers, FADER looks at a big record release and breaks it down in basic digits and primary colors. This week, we look at Nirvana’s seminal Nevermind, which is being re-released today as … read more »
Everybody Loves Our Town: The Oral History of Grunge
It’s hard to tell where the reality of grunge stops and its post-coital nostalgia begins, so quick was the world to jump into bed with Nirvana, Seattle and flannel. Punk might have had a few … read more »
The Tripwire: On Male Bonding, Versatility and Escaping Lo-Fi Stigmas
Male Bonding has always seemed to me a band that suffered from some unfortunate categorization. Don’t get me wrong. A lot of people have had a lot of very positive things to say about the … read more »
Little Roy Sees the Rasta in Kurt Cobain
And really so do we. I mean, couldn’t you see this guy getting stoned before his shift at the coop? Playing a little acoustic “Redemption Song” around a fire pit in J Tree? In Little … read more »
The Tripwire: Rethinking Green Day’s Musical American Idiot
Last night I was accidentally seeing MTV’s European Music Awards on cable TV and U2 played at the site of the famous Berlin Wall and I was thinking hey, this is really really rock music. … read more »
