When Green River hit their groove, they played a vicious mix of snarling punk and gigantic hard-rock riffs. It was a heavy, menacing sound, and in the mid-Eighties, nobody really knew what to call it. “I think we just considered ourselves rock & roll guys who grew up on punk rock,” drummer Alex Shumway says now. “We realized that there was some music that we liked before we became hardcore kids that we were afraid we listened to, but then we admitted we liked it. And we started making music like that.
- 2/1/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
While Nirvana's landmark Nevermind album officially turns 20 this week, the celebration of all things Kurt and company has actually been going on in the band's adopted hometown since late April. That's when the "Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses" exhibit opened at Seattle's Experience Music Project.
The carefully curated compendium of all things Nirvana is a kind of holy grail for the band's biggest fans, but according to curator Jacob McMurray, it's also been a magnet for typically jaded locals who have grudgingly (or is it, sorry, grunge-ingly?) have dropped in and admitted that, yeah, it's pretty awesome.
"For me, it's been way more than I expected," McMurray said of the thousands who've wandered in to gawk at such iconic objects as the band's first recording contract and late singer Kurt Cobain's first smashed guitar. "Every time I go into the gallery, even if it's a Monday morning, it will be packed.
The carefully curated compendium of all things Nirvana is a kind of holy grail for the band's biggest fans, but according to curator Jacob McMurray, it's also been a magnet for typically jaded locals who have grudgingly (or is it, sorry, grunge-ingly?) have dropped in and admitted that, yeah, it's pretty awesome.
"For me, it's been way more than I expected," McMurray said of the thousands who've wandered in to gawk at such iconic objects as the band's first recording contract and late singer Kurt Cobain's first smashed guitar. "Every time I go into the gallery, even if it's a Monday morning, it will be packed.
- 9/20/2011
- by Gil Kaufman
- MTV Newsroom
At this point, there are only a select few people who still think of Dave Grohl as "the drummer from Nirvana" before they consider him "the frontman for Foo Fighters." Grohl has had way more years, hits and sold-out tours than his old band ever did, and his status as one of rock's best frontmen (and interviews) has elevated him to legendary status. But according to an interview with BBC Radio 1, he doesn't have any problem acknowledging his former band. Grohl told host Zane Lowe that not only is the new Foo Fighters album (set to drop at some point in 2011) being produced by Butch Vig (the guy who manned the boards for Nevermind, as well as other classics like Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream and recent hits like Against Me!'s New Wave and White Crosses) but Grohl will also be collaborating with former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic.
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- 10/27/2010
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
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