News featuring Nirvana

Sunday 19th May

• “Courtney Love: 'Nirvana Catalogue Is A Curse'”

  Courtney Love is beginning to curse the day she became the guardian of her late husband Kurt Cobain's Nirvana catalogue - because it has become a big...

  Read the complete article at www.contactmusic.com

Friday 17th May

• “The Breeders: LSXX (Last Splash 20th Anniversary Reissue)”

  The Breeders' Last Splash turns 20 and gets the deluxe edition treatment. Is it worth it? It comes down to how much of a fan you are.

  Darn, I feel old. You’d think I might have felt this way a couple of years ago when Nirvana’s Nevermind turned 20, but it barely registered a blip with me. The Breeders' Last Splash, on the other hand, turns 20, as it does this year, and I feel like I have to break out the cane and book myself into the retirement home. I’m hard pressed to explain why I feel like I do, because,…

  Read the complete article at www.popmatters.com

Thursday 16th May

• “Paisley Underground: the 1980s LA psychedelic scene that inspired Prince”

  Bands such as the Dream Syndicate, the Long Ryders and the Bangles created a sound that so influenced Prince, he named his label and studio after it

  When Steve Wynn moved back to Los Angeles in 1980 after finishing college, he looked at the music being made in his home city and realised he was out of step. "The idea that you'd make music with long, unscripted and unstructured jams. The idea that you were into 60s garage bands. The idea that you'd play one chord until your arm fell off. All the things that we thought were exciting and cool couldn't have been less fashionable."

  Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk

Sunday 12th May

• “Mikal Cronin: MCII – review”

  (Merge)

  Residence in the US garage-pop underground is usually predicated on a certain level of refusenik guitar scuzz. Catapulting out of the San Francisco scene is Mikal Cronin, frequent crony of the slightly more famous Ty Segall. Cronin's shiny, happy second album packs a surfeit of melody, an unexpected boogie-woogie piano solo, some violin, key changes to punch the air to, and references to Nirvana fed through the forthcoming disposition of the Lemonheads. Listen in and the lyrics soundtrack a mid-youth crisis ("I've been starting over for a long time," Cronin croons as the album opens), but not so as to dent the overall impression of an ozone high.

  Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk

Saturday 11th May

• “Lionel Shriver: 'If you're thin, you are a kook; if you're fat, you're a failure'”

  The rise of Lena Dunham, Adele and Christina Hendricks might challenge the tyranny of thin, but our obsession with body size is still out of control, argues Lionel Shriver

  We're used to actors stripping on camera by now, so, in the many episodes of Girls in which Lena Dunham tugs her dress over her head, what's shocking isn't the bare breasts, but the belly: it's convex. Though Dunham could hardly be called fat, her stomach displays a distinct little jiggle. Has she no shame? No, as a matter of fact. She doesn't.

  Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk

• “Lana Del Rey, Mikal Cronin, The Bad Plus: this week's new live music”

  Lana Del Rey | 100 Years Of Electronic Music: Eccentronic Research Council | Mikal Cronin | Tomasz Stanko New York Quartet And John Surman | The Bad Plus | Tectonics Festival

  Lana Del Ray, Birmingham & Glasgow

  Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk

Friday 10th May

• “Alice Cooper's festival tales of terror”

  The original shock rocker on his surprise folk festival booking, rocking out with Foo Fighters and why golf is the best form of therapy

  Last year you played extreme metal festival Bloodstock. This year you're at Fairport's Cropredy Convention. Different crowd, right?

  Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk

Saturday 4th May

• “Watch A Spot-On Piano Cover Of Daft Punk’s “Harder Better Faster Stronger””

  As Daft Punk readies its fourth album Random Access Memories, YouTube user SinclairEoin revisits the duo’s Discovery. In a clip uploaded Tuesday, he plays a meticulous, note-for-note piano rendition of “Harder Better Faster Stronger” that especially gets good at the bridge. SinclairEoin has also covered Nirvana‘s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” but his Daft Punk clip ... More »

  Read the complete article at idolator.com

Friday 3rd May

• “Album Review: Pornography – 7 Minutes In Heaven EP”

  Ryan Adams' new band offers seven minutes in punk-rock Nirvana.

  Read the complete article at consequenceofsound.net