It’s not uncommon for people to inherit the musical tastes of their parents. That doesn’t mean that they only listen to the music they heard in the family home, but instead that they found their love for music through their parent’s taste and then expanded upon it depending on what was released at the time….
Describing Nirvana’s music as a single genre is challenging, given the diverse range of styles they explored. From ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ to ‘Very Ape’ to ‘Paper Cut’, each song feels like it could belong to a different band entirely. Despite Kurt Cobain’s myriad influences, his heart was always drawn to punk rock, a genre…
When Kurt Cobain tragically took his own life in 1994, he left a generation of music lovers in mourning. Some mourned the loss of an all-conquering icon. Others mourned Nirvana’s frontman and their favourite singer no longer being there to serenade their restless souls. For Dave Grohl, he mourned for his friend. There are countless…
Finding a signature sound is one of the hardest things to come by for any musician. There have already been thousands of artists before that have their sound nailed down to a science, so how are you supposed to differentiate yourself from the millions of other prospective superstars who are trying to figure things out…
Today, festivals are nothing compared to what they used to be. Previously, people would go to festivals expecting to see the world change right before them, and if anything other than the extraordinary happened, crowds left unimpressed. One night, at Reading festival in 1992, the crowd saw some of the most bizarre sets ever performed…
The incredible talents of Kurt Cobain gave the world so much in such a short space of time. Not only did the songwriter create some of the most iconic tracks of the 1990s with Nirvana, but he also inspired an entire generation of fans to think for themselves and embrace nonconformity. From his humble beginnings…
Grunge rock’s most attractive and romantic frontman, Kurt Cobain, had a penchant for the ugly, the obscene, and the poetic. He was sort of a walking dichotomy; he hated the mainstream, and he hated fame, but he also wanted both. As he attained a slice of them, he altered their constitution forevermore. When Nirvana started…
he may have had the songwriting skills that most other artists would die for, but he was just as likely to sink like a stone had he not had the fantastic basslines of Krist Novoselic behind him or the pummelling groove of Dave Grohl anchoring everything down. While the band had a drummer problem before…
The Beatles and Nirvana are two of the most acclaimed and essential rock bands ever. Ringo Starr revealed what he thought when he first heard Nirvana and his opinion of Kurt Cobain in particular. In the same vein, Cobain named his favorite Beatle. In a 2019 Rolling Stone article, Ringo and Nirvana’s Dave Grohl interviewed…
Even the greatest artists need a kick in the ass sometimes. No one can claim to be operating at the top of their game forever, and whether it’s through management or their floundering career, it’s always a good idea to try something new to keep everything fresh whenever musicians make a record or go out…