In Utero, the third and final studio album by Nirvana, still stands today as a powerful and emotionally charged record that showcases the band’s evolution and artistic maturity. The album was the result of the band’s desire to create something that would set them apart from their previous works, like Nevermind, and instead form a…
Woody Guthrie was famously quoted as saying, “That guy stole that from me, but I steal from everybody”. Of course, he referred to the sharing nature of the folk community. Still, the line between gentle borrowing and plagiarism is a fine one, especially when it comes to highly commercial music, such as ‘Smells Like Teen…
The Seattle grunge movement was instrumental in popularising alternative rock in the mainstream, with Nirvana becoming one of the leaders of the genre. After forming in the 1980s, the band picked up greater steam as they entered the ‘90s, finding widespread commercial success with their anthem for disillusioned youth, ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’. Taken from…
The music of Nirvana was always a beautiful contradiction. Despite the fact that the melodies spinning around in Kurt Cobain’s head may have been prime radio fodder from the first minute they hit your eardrums, he never wanted anything to do with the mainstream charts, either, practically doing everything he could to mess up his…
It’s hard to figure out what Kurt Cobain was saying at the best of times in Nirvana. Even though he may have been able to release his demons every time he stepped in front of a microphone, it was anyone’s guess whether he was going to say something unintelligible or consciously make up new lyrics…
If Nirvana had been able to carry on for a few more years, chances the major spotlight still wouldn’t have been aimed at Dave Grohl. He may have been an animal behind the kit, but outside of playing shows, Grohl seemed like the scrawny member of the band who would usually fade into the background…
The writer Graham Greene once said that “there is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in“. For Kurt Cobain, as for millions of people, that Promethean moment arrived when a certain band illuminated a brighter future. “At a really early age, I wanted to be a rock ‘n’…
There have been many songs connected by the same notes over the years. One of the most fascinating cases is that classic guitar riffs by Nirvana, Killing Joke, and The Damned are all eerily similar to each other. It’s never been clear how this happened, but it makes for some compelling reading and listening. The…
For any rock band dynamic, the drummer is usually the last person looking to come up with a song. Even Dave Grohl, frontman of the iconic rock band the Foo Fighters, subscribes to the theory that the last thing a drummer says before getting kicked out of a band is that they should try some…
out with their 1991 single ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’. In the blink of an eye, the era of grunge had arrived. A sound that had been bubbling away underground for years was now at the forefront of musical fashion. It drew on hardcore punk, metal, sludge, and the harmonious melodies of 1960s pop to create…