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- Dave Grohl: "A Nirvana Show with Kurt Cobain Hologram if possible." The Nirvana frontman will be resurrected and playing with his former band... The record industry has been struggling to recover from the massive dent in sales that the internet and downloading has caused over the past few years. Finally coming to terms with the exponential rise in technology, record execs have decided that the future of profiting off the dead is by using holograms. In 2013 Coachella festival shocked the world when a hologram Tupac Shakur walked on to its stage to perform one of his classics.  - Since then, record companies have been mulling over who to exploit next. Well, it seems they finally made their decision, and have announced that deceased counter-culture icon Kurt Cobain will be resurrected by hologram alongside original Nirvana members, Dave Grohl, and Krist Novoselic. -

- If you shout your possible biographical film about Nirvana with Brad Pitt as Kurt Cobain. Former wife Courtney Love, however, disagrees. The wave of musical biographies that have been reaching the general public in recent months has not stopped. After the successful Bohemian Rhapsody in Queen, and The Dirt in Mötley Crüe, now I could also go to biopic in Nirvana. At the moment we have nothing certain, only rumors, about the realization of the film about the very famous rock band of the 90s. The particular thing that is wasted is the voice in relation to the name of the actor who will play Kurt Cobain, the leader Nirvana leader who died on April 5, 1994. And among the many names, the one that appeared most was Brad Pitt. - A vague conformity (particularly with Pitt when he was young) is undeniable. But there are those who have launched against this possibility. Haz was personally personalized with Curtney Love, Cobain's ex-wife and the leader of the Hole, at a recent event wi...

- Former The Germs  guitarist Pat Smear defended Kurt Cobain 's guitar-playing abilities, explaining how technical proficiency isn't what the man was about. He tells Fact Mag: "Kurt Cobain's improvisations are very impressive guitar solos because it's more about his energy, his looseness, not trying to impress you with the flying fingers or whatever. "Not adhering to things like staying in the right key - just play whatever note you want. That's how it is in electronic music." - Pat continued: "That's why I've always been very careful about how I incorporate guitar into electronic music. I don't want to make a spectacle of myself as a guitarist in the way that I did when I was in Foo Fighters. I wanted to be inside the music, not standing outside of it to grab your attention." - Pat continued: "You can't possibly appeal to people and be sincere all the time. Oftentimes the best musicians have to hide themselves in...

- Marcel Anderson recently interviewed former Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson. He discussed Nirvana’s manager and record label refusing to acknowledge that Cobain was suicidal, despite his music obviously showing he had mental health issues. Keep in mind these excerpts are translated so the verbiage isn’t exactly right. - Anders: “Letters To Kurt” – letters to Kurt – is a tribute to Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain, who shot himself in April 1994. Do you have guilt feelings about his death? Erlandson: Well, I had a lot of friends who killed themselves. And he is the most famous of them. He was the icon of our generation and he stands for so much. In that sense, that’s why I started to study suicide. Simply, because I had no idea. When you first experience this, you’re putting together your own part, why people do that, why they choose this path, and how you can help them decide differently. Anders: And you could not help Kurt Cobain? - Erlandson: Had I known then what I know today, I woul...

- One of the most iconic videos of the band, Nirvana. It was posted again by a user in high definition, the video from the year 1993 was only in low quality, so it was edited for the fans. - The song at the time was one of the most listened to on MTV, due to the shocking video that was censored in many countries for its abortion content. - Below you can see the new versions of the video -

- Dave Grohl opened up about his relationship with Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain in a recent interview with Vulture. Despite their close bond, the Foo Fighters frontman revealed that Cobain once considered replacing him with a different drummer in the legendary punk-rock band.  Grohl said they were on the road to Los Angeles with bassist Krist Novoselic to start rehearsals for the "In Utero" tour, the band's third and final album, released on September 13, 1993. "I was sitting a few rows ahead of Kurt and Krist. I could hear Kurt saying, 'I think we need a drummer that's more rudimental, along the lines of Dan Peters,' who was the guy they almost hired when I joined the band," Grohl said.  - Peters had originally been recruited by Cobain and Novoselic to drum for Nirvana, but he was already a member of the Seattle band Mudhoney, so Grohl got the gig instead.  "I was really upset because I thought things were OK," Grohl continued. "...

- Danny Goldberg will release  Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain  next week, and in a  newly released excerpt  he discusses Kurt Cobain brutally rejecting an offer to meet Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose at a Nirvana show in 1991. “In Los Angeles, where Geffen was headquartered and much of the media was based, we wanted to make room for more people to see them so an underplay didn’t make sense. October 27, a month after Nevermind had been released, Nirvana headlined at the Palace Theatre, which had 2,200 seats, the biggest place Nirvana had headlined up until that moment, and the show quickly sold out. The band had been consistently playing great shows and this was no exception. - Backstage afterward, Eddie Rosenblatt told me that he had come with Axl Rose and asked if he could bring him into the dressing room to say hi to Kurt. When I conveyed this request, Kurt grimaced and said he really didn’t want to meet the Guns N’ Roses singer. I didn’t want t...

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- - There has always been a lot of rivalry between similar bands in rock history and one of this cases was  Nirvana  x  Pearl Jam . In an interview with  Rolling Stone  back in 1993 Kurt Cobain explained why he didn’t like Eddie Vedder and company. Kurt Cobain Explained Feud With Eddie Vedder And Why He Doesn’t Like Pearl Jam: Interviewer: “It’s never been entirely clear what this feud with Vedder was about”. - “There never was one. I slagged them off because I didn’t like their band. I hadn’t met Eddie at the time. It was my fault; I should have been slagging off the record company instead of them. They were marketed. not probably against their will. But without them realizing they were being pushed into the grunge bandwagon.” Don’t you feel any empathy with them? They’ve been under the same intense follow-up-album pressure as you have. “Yeah, I do. Except I’m pretty sure that they didn’t go out of their way to challenge their audience as much as we did wi...

- Netflix: A probable biopic of Nirvana with Brad Pitt, but Courtney Love disagrees. If you shout your possible biographical film about Nirvana with Brad Pitt as Kurt Cobain. Former wife Courtney Love, however, disagrees. - The wave of musical biographies that have been reaching the general public in recent months has not stopped. After the successful Bohemian Rhapsody in Queen, and The Dirt in Mötley Crüe, now I could also go to biopic in Nirvana. - At the moment we have nothing certain, only rumors, about the realization of the film about the very famous rock band of the 90s. The particular thing that is wasted is the voice in relation to the name of the actor who will play Kurt Cobain, the leader Nirvana leader who died on April 5, 1994. And among the many names, the one that appeared most was Brad Pitt. A vague conformity (particularly with Pitt when he was young) is undeniable. But there are those who have launched against this possibility. Haz was personally personalized wit...

- - irvana frontman Kurt Cobain sits among the most iconic names in rock history thanks to his innovative work over the late 1980s and ‘90s to bring grunge music to the forefront of rock consciousness. However, memories of the icon’s musical achievements are often marred by those of his shocking and untimely suicide in April 1994.  Following Cobain’s death, a suicide note was found that he had written before pulling the trigger on himself. The final letter for his family, friends and fans hauntingly brandished the words, “It’s better to burn out than to fade away” from Neil Young’s classic 1979 track ‘Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)’.  This quotation led people to believe that the suicide was a bit to remain eternally relevant. Cobain saw a level of romanticism in an untimely death for an artist. However, this wasn’t the only issue at hand. Fame wasn’t a yoke that sat comfortably on Cobain’s shoulders. When coupled with his worsening addiction to heroin, the young star be...

- Nirvana’s “Lithium” may have shared the emphatically shifting dynamics of “Come As You Are,” and the latent singalong infectiousness of Nevermind’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” but it stands distinct from the others in that it feels less of a perceptibly personal and agonized admission from its author. The context behind “Lithium”  That’s not to say that Kurt Cobain did not invest himself in the lyrics – there is much to be deduced from the words within – but he did repeatedly indicate that the story of “Lithium” was a fictional one. “The story is about a guy who lost his girlfriend,” he once explained. “I can’t decide what caused her to die – let’s say she died of AIDS or a car accident or something – and he’s going around brooding and he turned to religion as a last resort to keep himself alive, to keep him from suicide.” - While Kurt would concede that the song infused some of his own experiences, “like breaking up with girlfriends and having bad relationships,” there is th...

- Nirvana weren’t exactly architects. They were more like wrecking balls, blasting holes in the overproduced and overwrought sound of the 1970s and ’80s rock music. With a power trio set up, simple chords, and guitar solos that were either a copy of the central melody or complete noise, the last thing that Kurt Cobain ever wanted to do was sound larger than life. - That’s somewhat ironic, considering how that’s the sound that eventually came to define them on their sophomore album Nevermind. But even though Cobain’s multitracked vocals and Dave Grohl’s stadium-ready drum sound were tricks used by the bands that Cobain hated, Nirvana were still clearly working in a different idiom. Nobody would have mistaken Nirvana for Aerosmith or Led Zeppelin. Not that Cobain didn’t like those bands, it has to be said. He just didn’t want to sound like them. For Cobain, and by extension Grohl and Krist Novoselic, the aim was to match their immediate predecessors and contemporaries: Husker Du, Sc...

- Marcel Anderson recently interviewed former Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson. He discussed Nirvana’s manager and record label refusing to acknowledge that Cobain was suicidal, despite his music obviously showing he had mental health issues. Keep in mind these excerpts are translated so the verbiage isn’t exactly right. - Anders: “Letters To Kurt” – letters to Kurt – is a tribute to Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain, who shot himself in April 1994. Do you have guilt feelings about his death? Erlandson: Well, I had a lot of friends who killed themselves. And he is the most famous of them. He was the icon of our generation and he stands for so much. In that sense, that’s why I started to study suicide. Simply, because I had no idea. When you first experience this, you’re putting together your own part, why people do that, why they choose this path, and how you can help them decide differently. Anders: And you could not help Kurt Cobain? - Erlandson: Had I known then what I know today, I...

- - Frances says she didn't feel weird for not having that interest that teenagers showed to her father's music. “I would feel weirder if I had been his fan. I was 15 when I realized I couldn't escape him. Even when I was in a car and my radio was on, there was my father. He has reached beyond his death, our culture is obsessed with dead musicians. We love putting them on a pedestal. If Kurt had been another man who had abandoned his family in the worst possible way ... but it was not. He inspired people and put him on a pedestal, which made him "San Kurt." He got bigger even after his death, it didn't seem like he could become bigger, but it was. ” - He's larger than life and our culture is obsessed with dead musicians," Frances Bean added to Rolling Stone. "We love to put them on a pedestal. If Kurt had just been another guy who abandoned his family in the most awful way possible... But he wasn't. I've inspired people to put h...

- - The presenter met the leader of Nirvana and accompanied him during the Hollywood Rock festival in 1993 In 1993, the Hollywood Rock festival was in charge of landing three of the greatest bands in rock history in Brazil in three days of the event; In addition to having Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Alice in Chains, the organization knew how to take advantage of the rise of the grunge movement in the world and bring, in an unprecedented way, the greatest exponent of that period.  Nirvana landed in the country to play on the stage of the Morumbi Stadium, in São Paulo, on the night of January 16 of that year. With sold-out tickets, numbering more than 110,000 people, it would be the largest presentation in terms of audience and structure for the band, with a cigarette brand sponsoring the event and stamping its name. Who did not know of this last fact, however, was the main singer of the band, Kurt Cobain, who arrived to the lands of Tupiniquim quietly with his wife Courtney Love...

- - Nirvana were approached to open for Metallica and the Roses on their co-headline tour, but Cobain “just wasn’t having it” Kurt Cobain “didn’t like what Guns N’ Roses stood for”, according to Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett. While taking part in the latest instalment of NME‘s ‘Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?!’ series, Hammett recalled embarking on a co-headline tour with Axl Rose and co. back in 1992. Hammett was quizzed on which band had turned down the offer to open for Guns N’ Roses and Metallica at those shows, and he correctly answered with Nirvana. “I had to make the phone call to Kurt [Cobain] to talk to him about the possibility of joining our tour,” Hammett remembered, “and he just went on and on about how he just didn’t like what Guns N’ Roses stood for and I said to him: ‘Just go out there and represent Nirvana – just play the show and then that’s it’. “I pleaded with him, but he just wasn’t having it. So there you have it. It would have been great if Nirvana wa...

- During an appearance on Absolute Radio , Foo Fighters frontman and former Nirvana drummer, Dave Grohl, looked back on his time with Kurt Cobain and co. in the wake of the 30th anniversary of the band's monumental 1991 record "Nevermind." When asked, "Does it feel like 30 years ago, or was it just like yesterday?", Grohl replied (transcribed by UG): "It feels like a lifetime ago. I feel like I lived a few lifetimes since then. But I don't necessarily feel any different than I did. "I was 22 when that record came out. I feel 22 until I look in the mirror and go, 'Oh, I'm not 22 anymore...' "To me, Nirvana really was three people with some instruments that made a big noise, and we drove - around in vans, and we played in clubs, and we did things like that. "And then it became something else. "I look at Nirvana much differently than someone else might. It's become such a big part of popular culture. Everywhere I go...