Check out Nirvana’s Performance featuring Joan Jett, Lorde and St. Vincent

Nirvana Source Yes, this is about that Nirvana band which used to feature Kurt Cobain as singer and guitarist. It seems that the band was added to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and with this occasion at the ceremony also attended the former Nirvana members, Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic and Kurt Cobain’s ex-wife Courtney Love and family. Check out below the band’s acceptance speech: Even though the band lost…

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Rare footage of Nirvana’s final Los Angeles gig emerges – watch

Documentary maker Dave Markey has uploaded the footage he shot in December 1993 at Los Angeles’ Great Western Forum – one of the last concerts Nirvana performed. Four months later, Cobain would take his own life. The footage, which you can watch above, includes performances of ‘All Apologies’ and a cover of David Bowie’s ‘The Man Who Sold The World’. Writing about the footage, Markey says: “20 years ago tonight (December 30, 1993) I stood…

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Dave Grohl: ‘New Nirvana Will F–king Happen’

Now now, don’t get your hopes up – this isn’t about Nirvana reuniting or something like this – it’s about another band with a Nirvana-like impact. “We meant a lot of different things to a lot of different people,” he told the Guardian. “That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.” Dave Grohl went further, explaining that the…

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Nirvana reunite with Paul McCartney – for one concert

It’s a last minute bid for “What the hell?!” of the year: Paul McCartney will front a reformed Nirvana at a Hurricane Sandy benefit concert tonight. Both Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic are joining in, as will Pat Smear who once toured as an additional Nirvana guitarist and now plays the Foo Fighters. With Kurt Cobain openly expressing his admiration for McCartney, this will be as close to a Nirvana reunion as we’ll ever get…

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