Nirvana (band)
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When I first heard Nirvana back in the day, I chalked them up to another Guns ‘N’ Roses-type 'head banger' band ... But now, I’ve taken the time to actually listen to Cobain’s lyrics, and read about what he was doing musically, and he truly was revolutionary in his thinking.
There used to be a recording studio called Sound City that was in the San Fernando Valley. Nirvana recorded there in 1991. It was this really beautiful dump in the middle of a warehouse district. A lot of great records were made there ... Fleetwood Mac made records there, Neil Young made records there, Tom Petty, Cheap Trick, Dio, Ratt, Pat Benetar ... so I interviewed them to tell the history of the studio, but then I invite them back to record with me, and we make a record.
Music discovery used to be through one kind of channel like radio or MTV. That’s why Nirvana became so big and buried the stuff that came before it ... Now you don’t have that.More quotes »
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Corrosion of Conformity reinstates its classic trio lineup, revisits long-dormant hardcore legacy
On Oct. 4, 1991 — just 11 days after the release of the soon-to-be runaway blockbuster Nevermind — Nirvana was on a tour stop in Chapel Hill, N.C., when drummer Dave Grohl connected with his longtime friend Reed Mullin, a native of the area and drummer i from Nashville Scene Read more »
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Uneasy intersection …
… Los Angeles Review of Books - Someone Else's Martyr. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) I must admit that, prior to picking up Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson's Letters to Kurt, I had never listened to a Hole, or even a Nirvana, album all the way through. Yet I was i from Books, Inq. Read more »
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The Garbage Collection - Butch Vig's Favourite Albums
Butch Vig, the producer behind such seminal albums as Nirvana's Nevermind, Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream, Sonic Youth's Dirty, and of course one-quarter of Garbage, chats about his 13 favourite albums, the week before the release of his band's fifth a from The Quietus Read more »
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Sugar - Copper Blue
Husker Dü were an influential Eighties band that fed into the Nirvana-driven grunge explosion at the close of the decade, ironically just as Husker Dü folded. Bob Mould, chief pioneer in that band, formed Sugar some five years later, when Seattle had lau from Clash Music Read more »
