Nirvana
Rolling Stone has published a new edition of their Top 500 Albums of All-Time list. The most notable difference between it and its original 2003 version is a significant increase in the amount of records by women and people of colour in its top spots. The list’s original top five included three albums by The Beatles alone, […]
An Aussie bloke has bought the acoustic guitar that Kurt Cobain played during Nirvana‘s iconic 1993 MTV Unplugged performance for an eye-watering US$6 million (that’s about AUD $8.78 million dollarydoos, folks), making it the most expensive guitar ever sold in the history of guitars. The 1959 Martin D-18E was originally expected to fetch around US […]
Post Malone has never made it a secret that he’s a big lover of grunge and rock music, so it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that he’s a big fan of Nirvana. Over the weekend he put on a massive show, performing a stack of the band’s biggest hits on a live […]
Post Malone has announced he’ll play a set of Nirvana covers as part of an upcoming YouTube livestream event. Taking place this Saturday, 25th April at 8AM (AEST), Posty’s ‘Stay Home and Jam #WtihMe’ livestream will see the rapper performing from home and will feature a selection of “Nirvana hits and fan favorites”, according to […]
2000s post-grunge outfit Puddle of Mudd first broke into the mainstream with their ‘She Hates Me’-featuring debut Come Clean, but they’ve gone viral in this, the year 2020, for a less than ideal reason. Back in January, the band covered Nirvana‘s Bleach favourite ‘About a Girl’ while appearing on SiriusXM radio. It sat relatively dormant until recently, when […]
Glass Animals frontman Dave Bayley has launched a new series called ‘Quarantine Covers’ as a way to stave off boredom while quarantined in his studio, self-isolating due to coronavirus. He’s encouraged fans to send in requests for songs to cover, which he’ll be recording in his studio to pass the time. In the first iteration, […]
Nirvana‘s performance on MTV Unplugged might be one of the most famous televised performances in history, and now history can be a part of your wardrobe – the iconic cardigan Kurt Cobain donned in the performance is being put up for auction. This isn’t the first time the olive-green cardigan has been up for auction, as […]
Haim recently visited the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge to perform their single ‘Summer Girl’. While they were there, they also took the time to provide their rendition of ‘Panini’, the latest single from the internet’s favourite rapper, Lil Nas X. Upon its release, journalists noted that ‘Panini’ interpolates a melody from the classic Nirvana […]
Kanye West has co-opted two Nirvana tracks for the latest instalment of his ‘Sunday Service’ concert series, during which he presents gospel renditions of OG songs and covers. This time, it was the Nevermind classics ‘Come As You Are’ and ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ that Yeezy made-over with the help of his gospel choir, replacing […]
