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Saturday | Star Tribune

Grunge weekend at the Current

Last update: November 7, 2009 - 1:28 PM I have to admit, I've been enjoying the hell out of the Current's so-called "Flyin' the Flannel Weekend," a grunge retrospective timed to the 20th anniversary of Nirvana 's "Bleach." It's a pretty hokey name, and some of the banter has been close to unbearable .

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Related Topix: Nirvana, Mudhoney

Fri Nov 06, 2009

The Asylum

Nevermind the Lumberjack Shirts, Here's Kurt Cobain's Grunge Done Right

Of all the things that we miss about the early 1990s, grunge-era fashion isn't high on the list.

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Related Topix: Kurt Cobain, Nirvana

Thu Nov 05, 2009

BBC

No Doubt sue over Band Hero game

Rock band No Doubt are suing the makers of a music video game over the way they are portrayed in it.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, No Doubt, Video Games, Gwen Stefani, Hot Chicks, Nirvana

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Easton Express-Times

Nirvana's 'About a Girl' brings up memories of grunge

The 'Bleach'-era Nirvana lineup: Kurt Cobain, front center, bassist Krist Novaselic, far left, and drummer Chad Channing.

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Related Topix: Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, Music, Entertainment

Tue Nov 03, 2009

WNOL-TV New Orleans

Backtracking: 'Nirvana Live at Reading'

Nirvana's performance at England's Reading Festival in summer 1992 is widely viewed as the most celebrated set in the spectacular band's brief history.

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Related Topix: Nirvana, Entertainment

CNN

Foo Fighters taking a break

A huge portrait of Dave Grohl hangs in the Control Room of the Foo Fighters' Studio 606.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Foo Fighters, Northridge, CA, Nirvana, Queens of the Stone Age, Music, Entertainment

411mania.com

Foo Fighters - Greatest Hits Review

Dave Grohl - vocals, guitar Chris Shiflett - guitar Nate Mendel - bass Taylor Hawkins - drum Track listing: 1. All My Life 2. Best of You 3. Everlong 4. The Pretender 5. My Hero 6. Learn to Fly 7. Times Like These 8. Monkey Wrench 9. Big Me 10.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Foo Fighters, Suicide, Nirvana, Music, Entertainment

Mon Nov 02, 2009

Http

Nirvana Live at Reading

Referred to as the Seattle sound, the distorted, electric guitar-driven sound of early grunge bands like The Melvins, Mudhoney, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam opened up a whole new era of music.

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Related Topix: Nirvana, Mudhoney, The Ramones, Punk, Folk-Rock, God, Pop/Rock, Nevermind, Entertainment

NME.com

Photo Gallery: From Nirvana to Pearl Jam, the grunge-era photography of Michael Lavine

Michael Lavine is a New York-based photographer who is synonymous with the grunge era, having shot images for albums such as Nirvana's 'Nevermind' and Soundgarden's 'Louder Than Love'. Pictured here are hardcore punks The Rollins Band.

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Related Topix: Nirvana, Photography, Arts

Sun Nov 01, 2009

MySanAntonio.com

Capturing iconic grunge

The term was a joke, tossed off by an indie record label employee who was being cute.

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Related Topix: The Sonic Youth, Pop/Rock, Nirvana, Music, Entertainment

Sat Oct 31, 2009

Neoseeker

Rock Band updates for the week of 11/3

Next week's Rock Band 2 updates feature three tracks to celebrate the 20th anniversary release of Nirvana's debut album "Bleach", which will be re-released; this special edition release includes an previously un released live concert recording from 1990.

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Related Topix: Nirvana, Pop/Rock, Foo Fighters

MTV News

Foo Fighters Welcome Mixed Reactions To New Single 'Wheels'

Those tracks will be celebrated on the upcoming Greatest Hits, a compilation of the group's biggest smashes, including "Learn to Fly," "Best of You" and "Everlong." The album also contains two new songs: a rugged rocker called "Word Forward" and the new single "Wheels," which the band debuted on the lawn of the White House over the summer and which ...

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Related Topix: Foo Fighters, Pop/Rock, Nirvana

Fri Oct 30, 2009

Xbox 360 Fanboy

Rock Band Weekly: Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Joan Jett

But, we're pretty sure Grohl was with Foo Fighters during the time they recorded the tracks that make up the band's third DLC pack for the music game.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Xbox 360

Thu Oct 29, 2009

Tuscola County Advertiser

Foo Fighters mark 15 years with hits set, VH1 show

Almost 15 years ago, former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl quietly circulated among his friends copies of a demo tape on which he did all the singing and played all the instruments.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Storytellers, Entertainment, Television

Kilmarnock Standard

Kilmarnock's grunge rockers, Mechanic Smile

EVERY once in a while a band comes along that makes being brilliant just look so effortless.

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Related Topix: United Kingdom, World News, Strathclyde County, Scotland, Boat Disaster, Nirvana, Pop/Rock, Hole

Wed Oct 28, 2009

The Herald

Pop Secrets: Concert presale: Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones bring their supergroup t...

Them Crooked Vultures certainly gets to check the boxes on that supergroup application form.

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Related Topix: Nirvana, Pop/Rock, Foo Fighters, Led Zeppelin, Queens of the Stone Age, Blog News

Tue Oct 27, 2009

Associated Content

"The Unexplained Death of Kurt Cobain"

In January of 1994, 'Rolling Stone' did an exclusive interview with Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana.

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Related Topix: Kurt Cobain, Nirvana

The West Australian

Tweeters ask: is there anybody (famous) there?

Tweeters are being invited to submit questions for the spirits of departed celebrities including Michael Jackson and William Shakespeare as part of the world's first Twitter seance.

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Related Topix: Nirvana, Offbeat

Mon Oct 26, 2009

RTE 2FM

Playlist - Wednes...

Gossip - 'Love Long Distance' Weird Al Yankovic - 'Pretty Fly For A Rabbi' The Doors - 'Love Me Two Times' Speech Debelle - 'The Key' Fiona Melady - 'How Far' Jack White - 'Never Far Away' The White Stripes - 'The Hardest Button To Button' Hudson Mohawke - 'Black N Red' Nirvana - 'Heart-Shaped Box' Mastodon - 'Oblivion' Fiona Melady - 'Radio' The ...

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Doors, The White Stripes, Nirvana, Boat Disaster

Sat Oct 24, 2009

Ionarts

Christopher O'Riley at Wolf Trap

The Barns at Wolf Trap, with a stage set against bare wooden beams, was an appropriate venue for a piano recital by Christopher O'Riley, on Saturday night, that mixed classical tradition with repertoire rooted in the vernacular.

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Related Topix: Classical, Christopher o'riley, Nirvana, Scriabin

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