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Few bands have made quite the impact that Nirvana did when they exploded onto the scene in the early ’90s. Led by frontman Kurt Cobain and featuring the talents of drummer Dave Grohl and bassist Krist Novoselic, Nirvana revolutionized rock music with their 1991 sophomore album, ‘Nevermind.
But who should play the iconic rockers in a movie? Besides the obvious choice of Macaulay Culkin as Kurt Cobain, Loudwire magazine has come up with picks of their own. Incidentally, Culkin is not their number one choice. Actor Joe Anderson is the spitting image of the late, great Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. He remains relatively unknown, making him a perfect candidate to play the enigmatic Cobain.
In addition to having similar facial features as Grohl, ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ actor Efren Ramirez can definitely display the musician’s comedic side. So, we say ‘Vote for Pedro’ to play Dave Grohl in the Nirvana movie.
The first qualification to play the 6-foot, 6-inch Krist Novoselic is that you gotta be tall. And at 6 foot, 4 inches, ‘How I Met Your Mother’ actor Jason Segel definitely fits the bill, as he also resembles Novoselic.
Do you agree? Do you have someone else in mind?
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http://loudwire.com/casting-call-nirvana/
Courtney Love and the Kurt Cobain estate tapped Director Brett Morgen to make a film examining the life of the late Nirvana frontman, and the project has started to come together after five years of planning. Morgen most recently helmed the Rolling Stones documentary Crossfire Hurricane.
Though Cobain’s legacy centers around his music, Morgen hopes to shed some light on the rocker’s other artistic pursuits. “The thing about him people might not know too is that he was an incredible visual artist and left behind a treasure chest of comic books, paintings, Super 8 films, all sorts,” said Morgen, calling the film “a mix of animation and live action that’ll allow the audience to experience Kurt in a way they never have before.” Morgen hopes to release the film in 2014.
Source: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/kurt-cobain-film-will-be-this-generations-the-wall-director-hopes-20130104
Oh, what is that Courtney Love up to now? If one recent report is correct, she’s getting ready to revisit Kurt Cobain‘s legacy with a musical inspired by his early years in Nirvana. The news was broken by Britney Spears‘ former manager Sam Lutfi, who revealed Love’s plans in the Los Angeles courtroom where he’s involved in a defamation case against Spears’ mother.
It’s wise to take this news with a grain of salt for all sorts of reasons — not the least of which is the fact that Love was recently forced to hand over the rights to Cobain’s name, likeness and image to their daughter Frances Bean, thanks to the terms of a $2.75 million loan Love took against Frances’ trust in 2010. And even if that doesn’t prove a legal barrier on the project’s journey to the stage and screen, the whole thing seems unlikely given Love’s sporadic output over the last 15 years or so.
http://diffuser.fm/courtney-love-nirvana-musical/
Almost a decade before he picked up the guitar, a six-year-old Kirk Hammett started collecting horror memorabilia, inspired by a love of old zombie flicks. Fans will have an opportunity to peek inside his ghoulish trove with Too Much Horror Business: The Kirk Hammett Collection, the rocker’s new coffee-table book featuring over 300 images of his prized possessions.
Hammett is keeping busy with the new book and his very own toyline – KVH, based on his spooky alterego, Kirk Von Hammett. In his spare time, he plays in a band named Metallica. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Kirk was asked about Metallica’s influence on Kurt Cobain:
Is it true that the album cut “Whiplash” was Kurt Cobain’s favorite Metallica song?
Absolutely. He told me that himself. He came to one of our shows in Seattle, on the Black Album tour. I remember at one point, we were playing “Whiplash,” and he looked at me and kept punching the air with his fist, and gave me a big thumbs-up sign. I was like, “Cool. Kurt, I know you love this song. This one’s for you!” I knew Kurt kind of well, and I hung out with him quite a bit. He was a pretty big Metallica fan – I was surprised at how much of a Metallica fan he was. He loved Ride the Lightning. He loved that album.”
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/q-a-metallicas-kirk-hammett-on-horror-fans-hanging-with-kurt-cobain-20121001
In an article by Steve Appleford of Rolling Stone Magazine, Eric Erlandson talks about “Letters to Kurt”, a prose-poem memoir to Kurt Cobain.
Nearly two decades after the 1994 suicide of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, Erlandson looks just as he did at the height of grunge: tall, thin, stringy blond hair to his shoulders. Letters to Kurt is his accounting of that turbulent time, looking back with rage and affection for an era of great creative successes and a crushing wave of heroin and death.
“We were in the middle of that creative energy that was happening,” Erlandson remembers. But at the same time, he tells Rolling Stone, “I was in the abyss. I quite literally had one foot in, one foot out. The one foot out was my anchor, which is my Buddhism. But sometimes I’d feel too clean and I’d want to get dirty. . . . There’s different forms of suicide. When you’re playing around with drugs, it’s a pretty clear suicide death wish.”
He saw the self-destruction and depression up close, not just of Cobain but also in Hole bassist Kristen Pfaff, who died two months after the Nirvana leader. She was Erlandson’s ex-girlfriend and he was the last person to see her before her heroin overdose soon after the release of Hole’s Live Through This. Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/eric-erlandson-talks-about-letters-to-kurt-20120408#ixzz1tQyGFato
Courtney Love and Dave Grohl have been all over the news this week. If you’re late to the game, Love launched into a nasty tirade about Grohl during a Hold concert at SWU Festival in Brazil, after spotting a fan carrying a photo of her late husband, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. She got on the subject of Grohl’s fights to stake his claim to some of the Nirvana residuals, and the rant went viral. Now, Nirvana bass player Krist Novoselic seems to be coming to the defense of his former band mate in a series of Tweets, praising the Foo Fighters frontman.
Novoselic’s first Tweet read, “Q: Why do Foo Fighters pack arenas? A: Because they ROCK!!!!!!!” He quickly followed up with another Tweet in support of Grohl: “David Eric Grohl = Talent + Focus + Hard Work #Ilove you.” Both messages went out Wednesday (Nov. 16). We love the simple fact Novoselic is standing up for his good buddy.
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Source: http://audioinkradio.com/2011/11/nirvana-krist-novoselic-defends-dave-grohl-courtney-love
Story by Anne Erickson
Kurt hated Dave? AND Axl? The latter we can understand. Who doesn’t hate Axl Rose? But Dave Grohl? Re-he-healy?
The divas and divos of the ever-egocentric music industry sound off on EACH OTHER. Wow are these people petty, even catty. Check this out:
Flavorwire lists the top 30 Harshest Musician-on-Musician Insults in History and quotes some major heavies such as Kurt Cobain, Elton John, Tupac and Christina Aguilera.
Read some favorites below and click here for full article. You will not regret it.
29. Christina Aguilera on Lady Gaga
“I’m not quite sure who this person is, to be honest. I don’t know if it is a man or a woman.”
24. Courtney Love on Dave Grohl “As for that drummer, well, he’s hit on me so many times. He’s just a very very conflicted guy about me, which is why he continually writes songs about me to hear he ‘hates’ me more than ‘anyone else.’ Kurt loathed HIM more than anyone else (except a journalist) … He’s just sub-mediocre kind of [guy] who does this ‘nice guy’ nonsense.”
23. Dave Grohl on Courtney Love “She’s an ugly fucking b*tch.”
19. Kurt Cobain on Guns N’ Roses “They’re really talentless people, and they write crap music, and they’re the most popular rock band on the earth right now. I can’t believe it.”
15. Elvis Costello on Morrissey “Morrissey writes wonderful song titles, but sadly he often forgets to write the song.”
14. Noel Gallagher on Jack White “He looks like Zorro on doughnuts.”
7. Elton John on Madonna “Anyone who lip-synchs in public on stage when you pay £75 to see them should be shot.”
6. Boy George on Madonna “A vile, hideous human being with no redeeming qualities.”
5. Boy George on Elton John “All that money, and he’s still got hair like a f*cking dinner lady.”
4. Elton John on Keith Richards “It’s like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young.”
It’s hard to argue with Elton there. No offense to arthritic monkeys.
Source: http://www.stylecaster.com/lifestyle/15039/kurt-cobain-hated-dave-grohl-guns-n-roses-apparently
Twenty years ago this month, Nirvana’s sophomore album ‘Nevermind’ was released. The band’s major label debut (first record ‘Bleach’ had sold on modest independent Sub Pop), it unexpectedly came to define a generation of disaffected youth and sell 30 million copies.
Many view ‘Nevermind’ as being responsible for bringing alternative rock crashing into the mainstream, with its usurping of Michael Jackson’s ‘Dangerous’ at the top of the Billboard charts in 1992 signifying a dramatic shift in popular music among the masses.
Undeniably, the album is a classic. From the opening riff of ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ to the carnage of ‘Endless Nameless’, a hidden track buried nearly 14 minutes into album closer ‘Something in the Way’, ‘Nevermind’ pulses with energy, imagination and introspective lyrics. Propelled by killer singles like ‘In Bloom’, the album tore the mainstream to shreds, ringing the death knell for the rock monopoly held by 80s hair-metal bands like Motley Crue and Guns N’ Roses. Bombast was out, flap hats and torn cardigans were in.
Nirvana sounded like nothing you ever heard, and yet there was a familiarity about them; from the Beatles-esque melody of ‘On a Plain’, to the punk-heavy medley of ‘Territorial Pissings’. Even ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’, so gamechanging and timeless, owed more than a passing debt to The Pixies. Kurt Cobain himself admitted he was ‘trying to rip off the Pixies’ when he penned the tune.
Everything about the album was iconic. From Kurt, bedecked in a leather jacket, flipping the bird toward the camera in the album sleeve, to its front cover depicting a baby in water pursuing a dollar on a fish-hook, Nirvana were suddenly the band of the moment, capturing the ‘why ask why?’ apathy that was the post-Desert Storm zeitgeist. ‘Nevermind’ spent a whopping 253 weeks on the Billboard 100 chart and features frequently on ‘Best Albums’ lists to this day. It’s no surprise then that Universal Music is repackaging the original disc into a 4-CD/1-DVD edition packed with bonuses to commemorate the album’s 20th anniversary.
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