To celebrate the recent release of the Nirvana Live At Reading CD/DVD, we have managed to secure a fantastic prize for one lucky reader: We have one copy on CD, DVD, a Nirvana t-shirt and poster up for grabs and to be in with a chance, all you have to do is answer one simple question: What band did Nirvana drummer (Dave Grohl) go onto to form? E-mail you answer along with your name and address to competitions@alterthepress.com...
Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive Any album with a title that openly mocks President Obama needs a cover that's equally subversive, and Jello Biafra 's artwork for 'The Audacity of Hype' certainly delivers. The former Dead Kennedys frontman opted for a version of Shepard Fairey's famous "HOPE" picture and replace Obama's image with a demonic version of himself, fangs and horns included...
Dave Grohl is admired by many. The Nirvana drummer, turned Foo Fighters lead singer, and most recently, Them Crooked Vultures drummer, has had quite the music career. Still, he has his idols too. And one of them is in his new band. Playing with Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones in his new super-group Them Crooked [...]
Clash : 1. His band didn’t know what was going on when Kurt turned up on stage in the wheelchair This one is patently not true. Aside from anything else, Krist Novoselic introduced Nirvana that evening as I appeared on the edge of the stage with the wheelchair, “…he’ll pull through. With the help of his friends and his family, he’ll pull through”. The whole stunt...
Nirvana co-founder and bassist Krist Novoselic had some nice things to say about his former band mate Dave Grohl yesterday in his column on Seattle Weekly ’s website. After reading a profile on Grohl in Sunday’s New York Times , Novoselic came to the following conclusion: Dave Grohl is the greatest rock musician in the world today. Don't believe me? The man is dominating November music...
Something dawned on me when I was reading Sunday’s New York Times: Dave Grohl is the greatest rock musician in the world today. Don’t believe me? The man is dominating November music releases. Here we go: Nirvana’s Reading DVD , Foo Fighters’ Greatest Hits, and new work with Them Crooked Vultures….I remember going to the airport and picking this dude up. He was easygoing—just...
Filed under: News Although the surviving members of Nirvana have always been tremendously loyal to each other, former bassist Krist Novoselic has taken his allegiance to a new level with this week's installment of his Seattle Weekly blog . Novoselic has proclaimed former bandmate Dave Grohl "the greatest rock musician in the world today". While it's weighty praise, Novoselic insists such...
Though Courtney Love has understandably garnered very little sympathy over the use (and misuse) of the Kurt Cobain avatar in Guitar Hero 5 , the ability to export songs from Band Hero will allow irreverent players to torment deceased rock icons in new and interesting ways. Activision has been quick to take down most videos that would cause a scene, but check out the bevy of Cobains doing "Wannabe"...
If Dave, Krist and Courtney weren't angry enough, it looks like the new ability to import Band Hero songs into Guitar Hero 5 is going to push them over the edge. In this latest clip, a player has the late Kurt Cobain join the late Johnny Cash to sing the disco hit, "YMCA." Later, Kurt is used to play the Spice Girls' "Wannabe."
Maybe Kurt Cobain and Johnny Cash's respective wills demanded that their spirits live on in the form of a digital Village People cover band, meaning the option to export Band Hero songs into Guitar...
Filed under: News , Holy Hell It's no secret that Dave Grohl loves him some Led Zeppelin . Most notably, he's invited Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones to jam with his Foo Fighters , which eventually led to the formation of Them Crooked Vultures with Queens of the Stone Age 's Josh Homme . But this love affair hasn't been a recent thing by any means. In an interview with Rolling Stone , Grohl reveals...
Since Nirvana last took to the Reading Festival stage a whole generation has been born and grown up. Finally after all the bootlegged copies, this legendary gig is available on DVD and CD. The first thing you notice is how the Reading Festival main stage has changed. Only seventeen years ago and all the huge video screens and fancy lighting rigs are gone. Despite its differences, there is something...
From the band that made grunge cool, we bring you the entire Nirvana catalog. Relive Dave Grohl behind the drums before Them Crooked Vultures. Ride along the bass lines of Krist Novoselic. Lose yourself in Kurt Cobain’s vocals and lyrics. We’re giving away: Nevermind, Unplugged, Greatest Hits, In Utero, Incesticide, From The Muddy Bands of [...]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) –Almost 15 years ago, former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl quietly circulated among his friends copies of a demo tape on which he did all the singing and played all the instruments. He considered the project "a goof," and he dubbed it "Foo Fighters" because he wanted people to think it was a real band, "like the Ramones or the Pixies," he recalled at a taping of VH1's "Storytellers"...
In September, Nirvana fans were shocked to learn that the Kurt Cobain avatar in Guitar Hero 5 could be used to sing any other song on the game’s track list
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) –Almost 15 years ago, former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl quietly circulated among his friends copies of a demo tape on which he did all the singing and played all the instruments. He considered the project "a goof," and he dubbed it "Foo Fighters" because he wanted people to think it was a real band, "like the Ramones or the Pixies," he recalled at a taping of VH1's "Storytellers"...
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