Эта культовая группа была основана в Абердине (США) в 1988 году. Состав "Nirvana" включал в себя Курта Кобэйна (Курт Дональд Кобэйн, р. 20 февраля 1967, Хокьюэм, США, у. 5 апреля 1994, Сиэтл, США; гитара, вокал), Криста Новоселика (р. 16 мая 1965, Хорватия; бас) и Чеда Чаннинга (ударные). Подписавшись в Сиэтле на лейбл "Sub Pop Records", трио выпустило свой первый сингл "Love Buzz/Big Cheese", на котором была записана композиция из репертуара голландской группы "Shocking blue"... more info >>
The Nirvana Nevermind album cover baby recreates the picture 25 years on
Twenty-five years since one of the most well-known album covers in history was made the star of it is recreating it.
Spencer Elden was the baby on the front of the 1991 Nirvana album Nevermind and to mark the anniversary he's made the iconic picture again.
But this time clothes were involved.
"I said to the photographer, 'Let's do it naked.' But he thought that would be weird, so I wore my swim shorts," Spencer told the New York Post.
"It's cool but weird to be part of something so important that I don't even remember.
"It's strange that I did this for five minutes when I was four months old and it became this really iconic image."
Spencer is now an artist living in LA.
His parents were paid £154 for the original shoot and he was paid the same amount earlier this month for the recreation.
The original photo was taken by Kirk Weddle, a friend of Spencer's dad.
The new picture is taken by British photographer John Chapple in the same California pool as the original.
It's not the first time Spencer has been asked to recreate the image - he has posed three times before for the album's 10th, 17th and 20th anniversaries.
But he's never actually met the two surviving members of Nirvana.
Nevermind was Nirvana's most successful album, selling more than 30 million copies.
Pearl Jam's Era-Defining Debut Album "Ten" Turns 25 Years Old
The Seattle band's opening statement set the stage for a musical movement and a decades-long alt-rock dynasty.
In late 1991, two albums arrived to change music forever: Nirvana's "Nevermind" and Pearl Jam's "Ten". Together, the two Seattle bands ended an era of hair metal and introduced their decidedly different brands of grunge music to the mainstream. Nirvana did so with punk ethos, Beatles-esque pop smarts, and Kurt Cobain's poetic suffering; Pearl Jam with arena-sized riffs and choruses, dark textures, and Eddie Vedder's impressionistic wails. One band burned out in a few years. The other built a rock empire stretching 25 years and beyond. Ten, which came out 25 years ago today on Aug. 27, 1991, is the beginning of the latter tale.
In retrospect, it's easy to claim that Nevermind, the critical favorite, was the more culturally influential LP. But Ten had as much, if not more, cache in building the grunge scene and shaping alternative music to date. Nirvana's sound was original, authentic. Pearl Jam's moody tunes were more easily photocopied, and influenced scores of artists [for better (Stone Temple Pilots) or worse (Creed)] for years to come.
Pearl Jam itself came together by chance in the vibrant early '90s Seattle music scene. Guitarist Stone Gossard and bassist Jeff Ament joined forces in Mother Love Bone in 1988 after their previous band, Green River, called it a day. While preparing for the release of their 1990 debut, Apple, singer Andrew Wood died of a heroin overdose in March of that year. With the band abruptly over, they both retreated to reflect and write. Soon, the duo hooked up with another Seattle axe-slinger, Mike McCready, whose band Shadow had also recently disbanded. Together, the trio (calling themselves Mookie Blaylock, after the basketball star) recorded a five-song demo and began the search for a singer and drummer. Meanwhile, Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell, a close friend and roommate of Wood's, recruited the former Mother Love Bone members to record songs he'd written in tribute to his fallen friend. Along with Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron, the quintet gathered to rehearse (and Temple of the Dog was born).
That September, on the opposite end of the West Coast in San Diego, surfer, artist, and musician Eddie Vedder got his hands on that Mookie demo via former Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Jack Irons. EdVed overdubbed his vocals, sent it back to Ament, Gossard, and McCready in Seattle, and was soon invited to fly north for an audition. When he arrived in the Emerald City, he found Cornell with Temple of the Dog in London Bridge Studios, and soon jumped in to add vocals on Temple of the Dog hit "Hunger Strike." Once sessions for Temple were done, Cornell and Cameron returned to Soundgarden, and the newly formed Mookie Blaylock, along with drummer Dave Krusen, entered the same Seattle studio with the same producer (Rick Parashar) to begin Ten. The band soon changed its name due to Epic Records' legal concerns, but ultimately titled the LP for Blaylock's jersey number.
The jokes stopped there. Unlike much of the ironic '90s, Ten is dead serious. The band crafted dark and textured tracks with layers of guitar hero riffs, sing-along choruses, and drum breaks. EdVed played the mysterious frontman, singing about depression, suicide, loneliness, mental health, homelessness, and murder. The album produced three monster hits: "Alive" (about a boy learning that his father is actually his stepfather, inspired by Vedder's real life); "Even Flow" (about an illiterate homeless man and panhandler who sleeps "on a pillow made of concrete"); and "Jeremy" (about an outcast high school student who shot himself in front of his class). All three had hit music videos on MTV; the "Jeremy" clip was particularly moving, showing an artistic account of the student and his suicide, with close ups of a mesmerized Vedder as narrator, his eyes broiling with intensity. It won four MTV Video Music Awards in '93, including Best Video of the Year, Best Group Video, Best Metal/Hard Rock Video, and Best Direction.
"Ten" is far deeper than its singles. Others tracks hinted at the band's more nuanced future, especially "Black," a tale of a heartbroken man seeing his ex all around him; the soulful jam "Release"; and "Oceans," a tribute to Vedder's beloved surfing that carries perhaps the most spine-tingling moments on the whole album. Though not on the LP, Ten also yielded the Hendrix-esque b-side "Yellow Ledbetter," one of the first tunes the group wrote together, which has become a live favorite. These formed the template of many a PJ song to come, threading the line between delicate and bombastic.
Pearl Jam themselves have long discounted the mixing of Ten, and even released a remixed LP for its 20th anniversary, courtesy of longtime PJ producer Brendan O'Brien. But the original is decidedly 1991, inspired by what came before it: Green River, Mother Love Bone, Shadow, and the many other bands that influenced its members, from classic rockers to local peers (and there were many). The album's murky, reverb-drenched sound is part of what makes Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam, and Ten - Ten. And the numbers speak for themselves: Ten initially sold slowly, but by late 1992, it hit Gold. A year post release, Ten reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200 album chart. As of Aug. 2016, Ten has sold more than 10 million copies in the U.S., per Nielsen Music, and it remains the band's best-selling album to date. It also launched a trifecta -- the band's first three albums, including '93's Vs. and '94's Vitalogy, all reached multi-platinum status.
Ten is of another time: Think Seattle, Sub Pop, Singles, Doc Martens, flannel shirts, Reservoir Dogs, long hair, MTV host Kennedy, distorted/sludgy guitar riffs, saxophone Bill Clinton, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, and oh so much more. But, remember, it's these guys (the same guys) that are still around, playing sold-out shows and releasing new albums, alive as ever.
Nirvana's "Bleach" To Be Reissued With Previously Unreleased Live Performance
Marking the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's debut album, Sub Pop will reissue the platinum-certified "Bleach" on November 3, 2009. This expanded CD/double-LP will include a never-before-released live performance, special packaging and the first run of the double-LP will be on 180g white vinyl (the first run of the original LP was also on white vinyl). Both formats will be available for pre-order at SubPop.com leading up to this edition's release.
Originally recorded over three sessions with producer Jack Endino at Seattle's Reciprocal Recording Studios in December 1988 and January 1989, "Bleach" was released in June 1989 and remains unequivocally/unsurprisingly Sub Pop's very favorite NIRVANA full-length. The album initially sold 40,000 copies, but was brought into the international spotlight following the release and worldwide success of their 1991 sophomore effort "Nevermind". Subsequently "Bleach" went on to sell 1.7 million copies in the U.S. alone, according to Nielsen SoundScan. This 20th-anniversary edition has been remastered from the original tapes at Sterling Sound in a session overseen by producer Jack Endino.
This edition will include an unreleased live recording of a complete February 9, 1990 show at the Pine Street Theatre in Portland, Oregon. The concert features performances of "Love Buzz", "About a Girl" and a cover of THE VASELINES' song "Molly's Lips", and has been remixed from the original tapes by Endino (complete track listing below). A 48-page CD /16-page LP booklet which includes candid photos of the band not previously released to the public will also be included in this deluxe edition.
"Bleach": Deluxe Edition
01. Blew
02. Floyd the Barber
03. About a Girl
04. School
05. Love Buzz
06. Paper Cuts
07. Negative Creep
08. Scoff
09. Swap Meet
10. Mr. Moustache
11. Sifting
12. Big Cheese
13. Downer
Live at Pine Street Theatre:
01. Intro
02. School
03. Floyd the Barber
04. Dive
05. Love Buzz
06. Spank Thru
07. Molly's Lips
08. Sappy
09. Scoff
10. About a Girl
11. Been a Son
12. Blew Source: DarkSide.ru
2004-10-21
Courtney admits gig fracas
Courtney Love has pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after hitting a man on the head with a microphone stand during a gig in New York.
Gregory Burgett, 24, needed hospital treatment after the incident in the Plaid club in Manhattan on 18 March reports BBC online.
Judge Melissa Jackson granted Ms Love a discharge on condition she pays the victim's medical bills, joins a drug programme and stays out of trouble. If Ms Love violates the conditions, she could face 15 days in jail.
Speaking after the Manhattan Criminal Court hearing, Ms Love said: "I just wanted it to be over."
Mr Burgett needed three staples in his head to close the wound after the incident during Ms Love's show.
She was arrested on charges of reckless endangerment and third-degree assault. Those charges were reduced to one count of disorderly conduct.
The widow of Nirvana star Kurt Cobain is also facing an assault charge in California for allegedly attacking a woman with a bottle at an ex-boyfriend's home in April.
A preliminary hearing has been set in Los Angeles for 27 October. Source: Ananova
2004-10-05
Release date for Nirvana boxed set
A hotly-anticipated boxed set of Nirvana rarities is to be released next month in the UK.
A UK spokesperson for the band's label has now confirmed details of the four disc set, reports NME.com.
Currently untitled, the four disc compilation is made up of three audio CDs, with over 40 tracks on them, and one DVD with archive footage.
The audio tracks will be rare and previously unheard demos, alternative versions and radio session tracks.
The DVD footage includes a rare promo of In Bloom and is also expected to feature an early live show.
The set, which has long been rumoured on fan websites, is due out on November 22. Source: Ananova
2004-07-14
Grohl 'drumming for Nine Inch Nails'
Former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl has reportedly joined Nine Inch Nails.
The NME says Californian band The Exies have posted a report about Grohl performing live with Trent Reznor's group on their website.
It also claims Grohl has been seen with the band on their own studio webcam.
Since Nirvana, Grohl has played for the Foo Fighters, Queens Of The Stone Age, Garbage and Killing Joke. Source: Ananova
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