Nirvana (Band)

Craziest Cover Version Evah!

It's Paul Anka's crazy, swingin' remake of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit," which he recorded for his cross-pollinating experiment of a Rock Swings album in 2006. Watch Anka do it live, smiling and swingin' as he jazzes up lyrics like "A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido."

In Remembrance of Kurt Cobain: The Most Unique Nirvana Covers

Nineteen years ago today fans around the world got news Nirvana's Kurt Cobain had taken his own life in his Seattle home. As the years have passed, fans, peers, and friends of the musician and his pioneering grunge band have paid their respects through covering the band's material. Here now, from P ... More >>

"Harlem is the Mecca of the World!": Bodega BAMZ Introduces His Latin Trap Movement

"I'm from Spanish Harlem and the story has never been told from my 'hood," says Bodega BAMZ, the uptown rapper who's plotting to write his own chapter in hip-hop's history with his Latin trap movement. The cornerstone of BAMZ's come up so far is Strictly 4 My P.A.P.I.Z., the 'Pac-style mixtape he dr ... More >>

Deer Tick

Q&A: The Vaselines' Eugene Kelly On Nirvana Covering Their Songs, Loving Mudhoney, Eugenius And New Tunes

The Vaselines—the rascally horny, popcentric duo of Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee—are, as their classic song from their 1989 debut LP Dum Dum portended, ageless "Teenage Superstars." The twosome formed The Vaselines in 1986, and along with fellow pop- purveyors Glasgowians The Pastels, ... More >>

Download: Hunny's Bruising, Crashing "I'm History"

​Hunny is the turn-of-the-millenium "return of the rock" played out in real time; it formed when the members of YIMBY-approved Staten Island dance-pop crew Paragraph got bored with glossy beats and threw their drum machines in the trash. The bruising grunge-metal gnashers' debut I'm History w ... More >>

Q & A: Scratch Acid's David Yow On Reunions, Nirvana And Book, The Jesus Lizard Coffee Table Book

Niles J. FullerScratch Acid in 1984. ​David Yow—the beer-swilling, crowd-surfing, lunging, occasionally dick-waving, shirtless, human sweat-mop frontman of post-punk iconoclasts the Jesus Lizard and Scratch Acid—is quite the congenial dude, despite the juicy belches meted out in my ... More >>

R.E.M.'s Reckoning

The band closes the book on their legacy

Kevin Devine

Foo Fighters

Q & A: The Raincoats' Ana da Silva On The Riot Grrrl Movement, Kurt And Courtney, And Being Johnny Rotten's Favorite Band

​ This month has seen quite a bit of ink spilled on behalf of the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's Nevermind. But it's also a moment to remember the ways that lead singer Kurt Cobain's reach went beyond the scope of his band and that record—consider one of his most beloved influences, the U ... More >>

Stone Temple Pilots

Q & A: Don Fleming On The Grunge Years, Courtney Love's Work Ethic, The Velvet Monkeys And Being Sonic Youth's "Manager"

​One of the more surreal moments in television history happened one superlate evening in 1989, when Sonic Youth appeared on the avant-garde-leaning music program Night Music on the severely avant-lacking NBC network. With downtown skuzz buddy Don Fleming playing SY's "manager on keyboards"
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Nirvana's "Sliver" And "Dive" Get A Reggae Makeover

Above, the reggae singer Little Roy takes on the A and B sides of Nirvana's "Sliver"/"Dive" single, which is almost 21 years old as of this writing. Both covers are surprisingly enjoyable to listen to—raise your hand if your first reaction when hearing the phrase "reggae Nirvana cover" is the ... More >>

IN UT-DEER-O

How about ‘Smells Like Deer Spirit'?

This Weekend In New York: High And Low Culture, From The Met To The Cover-Band Depths

​ In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. This past weekend was a glorious cultural swan dive for Debbie and me that started uptown in the hallowed halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, sailed down throu ... More >>

Watch Videos From Last Night's Our Band Could Be Your Concert

Above, the ever-fierce Merrill Garbus (dba tUnE-yArDs) takes on Sonic Youth's "The Burning Spear" at last night's Our Band Could Be Your Concert, the multi-act musical tribute to the bridge between the DIY pioneers chronicled in Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life and indie acts of today. ... More >>

Indie's New Guard Celebrates Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life

His book mapped their lives

Jowe Head & the Extremities

Premiere: Stream Mr. Dream's Debut LP, Trash Hit, In Its Entirety

​You will have your type of nostalgia, and we will have ours: to us, the debut LP from Brooklyn trio Mr. Dream (out today, at last) feels like a dazed walk back through the last 25 years of Jesus Lizard, Big Black, and Nirvana records, all arch sarcasm, drawling melodies, a peculiarly grown-up ... More >>

PROM, TAKE 2

Make it count this time—ask her out!

No Age's Adrenaline Stage Continues

Everything in Between cements the L.A. semi-punks' graduation to Their Own Sound

SON OF A GUN

The Vaselines are back together

'GRUNGE' THIS

The mighty Melvins live on

Tonight! Gang Gang Dance, Harlem, And Javelin

Leslie van Steltein​Well-dressed art rockers Gang Gang Dance (to your left) will show you how to lose control (and snatch it back) as Lizzi Bougatsos screeches and coos at tonight's MHOW dance party. Elsewhere, Austin-bred merry pranksters Harlem (c'mon, their first record was called Free Drug ... More >>

Get A Load Of The Chosen Rejects, A Four-Disc Nirvana Bootleg That "Destroys That Piece Of Garbage With The Lights Out Any Day Of The Week"

​With the Lights Out, you'll recall, is the luxe box set they put out in 2004, but never mind that now. Here's four discs' worth (plus a set of BBC sessions) of Nirvana rarities/live tracks/demos/etc. that are a) apparently better quality and b) free. The pitch:

BAD TIDINGS

Jazz bridges the pop gaps

Interview: Eugene Mirman on Asperger's Syndrome, Advice from Former Teachers, and the Mirman Weirdos

Comedian Eugene Mirman makes even the most productive person look unproductive. In the last several months, he's released his first self-help book The Will To Whatevs, reprised his role as "Eugene" during the second season of HBO's Flight of the Conchords, organized and hosted the second annual Eu ... More >>

Alice in Chains

Interview: Mount Eerie's Phil Elverum

​ When SOTC caught up with Mount Eerie's Phil Elverum on the phone a couple weeks ago, he wasn't quite ready for us. "Just let me turn down my Nirvana," he said before asking me to call him back. It felt very appropriate. The Washington native's latest, Wind's Poem is an ode to the massive gu ... More >>

MOVING TO INVADE

Two French street artists take over Chelsea

RECREATED, NOT SEDATED

The punks of Sunset Boulevard return

COME AS YOU ARE

Déjà vu with Mr. Dream and Acrylics

The Vaselines

Chris Cornell

SON OF A SON OF A GUN

Scotland’s Vaselines reunite, remind you of who they were

Faith-Based Curry

Starches steal the spotlight at Gramercy Sri Lankan

The Great Cover-up, Part 2

U-Turn to Hell

British Riff-Meisters and Shrieker Confront the Humorless

No Future

Kurt Cobain's Final Denial

Never More

The death of a hometown antihero: Ann Powers reports from Seattle on the suicide of Kurt Cobain

The Drowned Baby

Lucky messy punks from Seattle peel down their Christmas stocking and show their context

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Loving the Alien

D.A. Pennebaker's Stardust Memories

Catchy as Catchy Can

A Zone of Her Own