Nirvana News

The last time George Michael performed in Toronto in October 1991 as part of his Cover to Cover world tour, Nirvana's smash album Nevermind had been out for less than a month.

Nude with Boots Review Posted by Steven Kubitz on 07.17.2008 The Melvins? Aren't they that band Kurt Cobain really liked? The answer to that question is definitely a yes, but The Melvins have proved over the ...

It isn't unheard of for a post-baby boomer rock band to have some baby boomer influences, either direct or indirect.

Sure, there were Nirvana songs on the first day of iconic label Sub Pop's 20th anniversary bash at Seattle's Marymoor Park on saturday.

Finding the next big stock is both satisfying and profitable. Like Nirvana for those early on the grunge scene, or, in my case, Modest Mouse, it's even more rewarding if you can discover greatness before ...

Dave Grohl did a little reminiscing during the Foo Fighters' encore Thursday night at the Rose Garden.

Is it uncharitable to suggest that the vast numbers of tribute acts the Melvins have inspired in their 20-year run are as much the result of some crucial flaw in the band's sound as they are an homage to its ...

In the news over the weekend, yet more groping-induced fisticuffs from Amy Winehouse ! According to the NME , Winehouse clocked a dude - three times - in a Camden, London pub after she thought he had pinched ...

Back in 1990, when George Michael first shunned all the trappings of teen-pop fame by releasing "Listen Without Prejudice, Vol.

The year is 1991. Nirvana's Nevermind has just come out, we're all wearing flannel shirts, and a presidential election year is near.

That accordion animal had accessibility on his mind last month. Willing to yak, "Weird Al" Yankovic was granting face time to the media.

Rickky Curtis was a huge Nirvana fan, but he wasn't as familiar with the Melvins.

The great debate of Seattle sound' has always been which of the two major grunge bands, Pearl Jam or Nirvana, were better.

Legendary hard rock band Motorhead will release its new album, entitled " Motorizer ", through SPV Records on the following dates: USA: August 26 Germany: August 29 Rest of Europe: September 1 The follow-up to ...

Prior to Nirvana, alternative music was consigned to specialty sections of record stores, and major labels considered it to be, at the very most, a tax write-off. After the band's second album, 1991's ...

People are nuts for them. Sloan fans are obsessive, protective and they stand by them even when they make a less-than-great album .

I was a bit surprised to see a few Nirvana haters popping up in the "Glycerin" thread the day before yesterday .

U.S. rock singer Courtney Love says she's "suicidal" because someone stole her late husband's ashes.

Nirvana may have been the band that put an entire generation in flannel, and Pearl Jam and Soundgarden both sold a lot more records, but Mudhoney were truly the band that made the '90s grunge rock movement ...

THE JOPLIN GLOBE With summer here, I thought I would take a moment to share some fresh cuts from 2008 that I will be spinning in the car, blasting out of the iPod dock by the grill and bumping in my living room ...