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Friday. The big day is coming. What will YOU be doing just in case the Ancients were correct? Rockin’ out, of course! But to what, you ask? Enjoy some of PunkMetalMamma’s choices:
1. Here it comes… Linkin Park – In The End
2. Really, what’s gonna happen? Snow Patrol – In The End
3. If you just don’t care, try The Smiths – What Difference Does It Make?
4. If you are a believer in the afterlilfe, check out Good Charlotte – A New Beginning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtwYmzHkod4
5. Have to get rid of some guilt? Jam with Nirvana – All Apologies
Really, come Saturday morning, we will all be crankin’ out this:
HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL HERE SATURDAY!
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.
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http://diffuser.fm/courtney-love-nirvana-musical/
Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters and Nirvana will be directing and producing an upcoming documentary on Van Nuys, California recording studio Sound City. Sound City will give audiences a feature-length history of Sound City Studios, the Van Nuys, California, studio where great albums including Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours, Neil Young’s After the Gold Rush, Rage Against the Machine’s self-titled, and of course, Nirvana’s Nevermind were recorded.
A release date has not yet been set. A teaser clip for the film can be seen at its website.
Source: http://www.altpress.com/news/entry/dave_grohl_foo_fighters_to_direct_and_produce_new_documentary
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
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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