Nirvana (Band)

The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 6/14/13

For more shows throughout the weekend, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which is updated daily.

A Month And A Half After Sandy, The R Train Returns To Full Service By Friday

If the 12/12/12 concert last week told us anything, it was that Paul McCartney's Nirvana fill-in was something we should talk about more as a society. And that, a month and a half later, there's still a ton of work to do in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.When the storm hit two days before Hal ... More >>

RAW POWER

Toronto's METZ return 
for a victory lap

Does Soundgarden Have Any Business Reuniting in 2012?

For a band of impressive magnitude -- an unholy sum of Chris Cornell's wails, Kim Thayil's strangely tuned, beautifully heavy guitar, and the Zeppelin/Sabbath-indebted rhythm section of bassist Ben Shepherd and drummer Matt Cameron -- Soundgarden's return from their decade plus absence has been kind ... More >>

The Cringe's John Cusimano On The Beatles' Vintage Gear, The Killers' Drummer, And New York's Best Chinese Restaurant

Editor's note: In Tweets is Watching, Phillip Mlynar asks local artists questions based solely on the contents of their Twitter timeline. New York City-based rockers The Cringe released their fourth studio album, Hiding In Plain Sight, earlier this week. The Cringe is fronted up by John Cusimano, w ... More >>

The Melvins, Globe-Trotting Men of Metal

Destined to be in the Guinness book of world records, or die trying

Q&A: The Darkness' Justin Hawkins On Being Surrounded By Drama, His Pre-Rock Star Life, And Learning From Lady Gaga

Fans of falsetto-laden cock-rock and spindly Englishmen in catsuits have been shit outta luck since the Darkness broke up in 2006, amid out-of-control tension and lead singer/guitarist Justin Hawkins' heading off to rehab. Then a performance at last year's Download Festival heralded the reformation ... More >>

Budweiser: Why It's My "King"

Beer UP typically examines a craft beer from a small brewer somewhere in the United States. Among many others, I've written about the Left Hand Milk Stout, the Founders Red Rye, and the Troegs Troegenator, but before I continue forward on this quest to drink every brewer in the country, I decided th ... More >>

Q&A: Will Schwartz Of Imperial Teen On Being Into Unrest, Sharing A Band With A Dude From Faith No More And How Living In Brooklyn Ruined His Songwriting

Since the mid-Nineties, Imperial Teen has crafted an infectious, hard-to-shake boy-meets-girl candy-pop jangle. Formed by Faith No More keys-master Roddy Bottum and NYU grad/pop maven Will Schwartz with ex-punk rockers Lynn Truell and Jone Stebbins, they quickly scored a major-label deal during the ... More >>

100 & Single: Gotye And fun. Help Alternative Rock Go Pop Once Again

Consider this six-pack of rock acts: Siouxsie and the Banshees, Big Audio Dynamite, the Psychedelic Furs, U2, R.E.M. and Julian Cope. My dream Rock & Roll Hall of Fame? Not quite—it's a list of the first six artists to go to No. 1 on the chart Billboard launched in the fall of 1988, then call ... More >>

Cloud Nothings

Portraits Of South By Southwest: La Sera, Santigold, Blood Orange, And The Men

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 week, we packed up our paint and headed down to Austin for the annual hurricane of musical adventure that is South By Southwest. I feel both like I just got to the jam ... More >>

Kid Cudi Gets Emo On WZRD

Last week, as projections of blinking eyeballs danced across the wall of Soho's W.i.P. during the album preview of WZRD (Wicked Awesome/HeadBanga Muzik/Universal Republic), one couldn't help but draw parallels between the distressed protagonist of Vladimir Nabokov's The Eye, Smurov, and Kid Cudi, wh ... More >>

Pazz & Jop's Album Results Get Soundscanned

The incredible shrinking album

Q&A: Frank Hoier And Moselle Spiller Of Boom Chick On Touring, Honoring The Blues, And Nirvana

​Clocking in at a scrappy 20 minutes, Show Pony—the 2010 self-released debut LP from Brooklyn's Boom Chick—brings the hangdog harangue ruckus, a snarling, hair-raising blur of raw rock primitivism and full-tilt blues grooves. The songs, from the ephedrine-juiced surf-snarl of "Nail ... More >>

Q & A: Meat Puppets' Curt Kirkwood On Arizona Punk, SST Records, His Brother Cris Being Clean, And Not Making It Into Our Band Could Be Your Life

​The Meat Puppets' thirty-year journey can be divided into a trio of disparate trajectories: the mind-melting Deadhead-cum-hardcore desert-rock genius of their SST Records years (1982-89); the glossy, muscular grunge-lite of the successful major-label stint they enjoyed in the 90's (thanks in ... More >>

Download: Hollow Teeth's Feedback-Heavy, Aggravated "F.U.P.D."

​Hard-drinking, hard-strumming hardcore spasm Hollow Teeth is a perfect storm of aggression: Bad Brains velocity, Nirvana melody, Born Against chops, Mark E. Smith vocal contortions and enough distortion to double-knot the laces of a shoegazer. Their 10 song, 15-minute demo, available at their ... More >>

The Rapture Talk Baseball, Seattle, Postpunk Redux, And Their Difficult Second Album

​In this week's Voice, we profiled the Rapture, recently re-signed to DFA Records. Luke Jenner, Vito Roccoforte, and Gabriel Andruzzi are voluble guys, so there was plenty of material that we couldn't fit into the story. Here are a few pieces from our interviews that touch on the band's early ... More >>

Archers of Loaf vs. The Greatest

A brief history of indie rock's best worst-named band

Behind the Music: Hitting All the Wrong Notes in The Perfect Age of Rock 'N' Roll

Q&A: Japandroids' Brian King on Their Single Series, Disappointing PJ Harvey, and That Siren Festival Rumor

A pair of late bloomers, guitarist/vocalist Brian King and drummer/vocalist David Prowse had never been in a band before they graduated from the University of Victoria and started chaffing against responsible adulthood and career jobs. Which meant that when the Canadian duo formed Japandroids--pr ... More >>

Superchunk Are Not Reuniting

Rejecting nostalgia on the majestic Majesty Shredding

The 'Nirvana Baby' Chasing the Dollar on the Nevermind Cover Works for Shepard Fairey. Fitting, No?

The last time we saw Spencer Elden, the chubby swimming baby on Nirvana's unforgettable Nevermind cover, he was the 14-year-old side-hatted skater boy above talking about his unwitting role in musical history. Now he's all grown up and living in Los Angeles, where he is working for OBEY. This is n ... More >>

PSYCHIC WEIRDO

Ariel Pink sees the future

The Shake Shacking of America; The Big Plate Revolution of New York

​Dale Hemmerdinger, the ex-MTA chairman and current landlord, is evicting Shamsher Wadud, who for many years owned the Indian restaurant Nirvana on the roof of the building next door. Wadud is broke and a Parkinson's sufferer, and claims his apartment is overrun by rodents. [NY Post] The Shak ... More >>

Our First Date With Them Crooked Vultures

Getting to know a deliciously indulgent, only slightly exhausting hard-rock supergroup

Today In Ill-Advised Attempts to Summarize Youth Culture: "There's Only One Viable Avant-Garde Art Form Nowadays, And It's Called Indie Rock"

Our Dylan, in action. So this is making the rounds lately, and aside from that first quote (the first line of the piece, following a please-young-people-don't-kill-me disclaimer), key sentiments include: * "Three stages were surrounded by hipsters, and for a short while I actually hung out with D ... More >>

COME AS YOU ARE

Déjà vu with Mr. Dream and Acrylics

The Fluid+King Left+The Overcasters

Canary

When Now Wasn't Soon Enough

Everything great—and everything you forgot was lousy—about British guitar-rock

In the Dark with Kurt Cobain

The voice of a generation talks like a regular guy in About a Son

Rock Steady

For Those About to Doc

Rock and roll as a cause, a cage, and a job

The Android You're Looking For

Radiohead head broods beautifully but anticlimactically

'Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul'

The Quirky Love Song of Andrew J. Nemr Has Rhythm

His Own Private Biopic

Gus Van Sant resurrects the ever enigmatic Kurt Cobain with a lyrical blast from the avant-garde

The Big Chill

EZT shuts down, courts lag behind, WMG gets desperate

No Hope Radio

Prog Cognition and the Future of ?

UFO Landing

Investigating Inner and Outer Space

Trio Savvy

The Bad Plus's Equilateral Chamber Jazz

NY Mirror

Dookie from Dubuque

Flak On Both Sides

Moby and Merritt Vs. Hitters and Cheerleaders in a Bad Year for Nerds

Total Systems Failure

Cum on Feel the Webnoize

The Music Industry Turns to the Tech World for a Boost

Digital, Baby!

Technology Goes Back to the Womb

NY Mirror

Alas, it's not clear which is the gay Wiggle, since the one who wears purple doesn't also carry a magic purse.

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