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  1. Get Out
    Douglaston Patch logo Douglaston Patch 1 hour ago

    We’ve got the best bets for your done-work-outta-here time. Check our picks for the activities to hit, and a list of new bars, restaurants and shops to explore. Why Go: The live music, in celebration of Marshall's birthday (obviously), will feature... Full Article at Douglaston Patch

  2. Butch Vig: Career In Beats
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    After working with the Pumpkins on 1991's Gish, Butch returned for the hugely-acclaimed follow-up. Check out Jimmy Chamberlin's glowing report in our June issue. Getting out of the production room and behind the kit, Butch formed alt/electro rockers... Full Article at Music Radar

  3. AP Photo logo AP Photo 8 months ago
    In this Sept. 6, 2011 photo, Krist Novoselic, left, and Dave Grohl, center, former members of the band Nirvana, pose with Butch Vig, producer of the band's landmark 1991 album "Nevermind," poses in Los Angeles. A 20th anniversary edition of the album...

    In this Sept. 6, 2011 photo, Krist Novoselic, left, and Dave Grohl, center, former members of the band Nirvana, pose with Butch Vig, producer of the band's landmark 1991 album "Nevermind," poses in Los Angeles. A 20th anniversary edition of the album... View Photo »

  4. When I first heard Nirvana back in the day, I chalked them up to another Guns ‘N’ Roses-type 'head banger' band ... But now, I’ve taken the time to actually listen to Cobain’s lyrics, and read about what he was doing musically, and he truly was revolutionary in his thinking.
    SOURCE: MTV.com 3 weeks ago
  5. Music Review: Shirley Manson Leads Garbage at Webster Hall
    The New York Times Music logo The New York Times Music 17 hours ago
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    There’s a little of each of them in her voice. But in the mid-1990s rock was pushing darker thoughts and heftier beats. Garbage’s drummer, Butch Vig, had produced the grunge spearhead, Nirvana’s 1991 album “Nevermind”; Nine Inch Nails had emerged with... Full Article at The New York Times Music

  6. Dead Eyes of London Aim for Loose Grooves
    Phoenix New Times logo Phoenix New Times 18 hours ago

    Separately and in differing combinations, the three have played in outfits like Redfield, The Jedi Five, Sam the Butcher, Vistalance, Butcher Jones, and Beezlewood. "I wanted Dead Eyes to be the opposite of Redfield," Vallarino says. "We can be out of... Full Article at Phoenix New Times

  7. Foss Forward: Great covers
    The Schenectady Daily Gazette 18 hours ago

    “Ring of Fire” by Social Distortion — A California punk band takes a famous Johnny Cash song, and does it justice. 18. “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me” by the Violent Femmes — A great alternative rock band does Boy George 17. “Lake of Fire” by Nirvana —... Full Article at The Schenectady Daily Gazette

  8. AP Photo logo AP Photo 8 months ago
    Kurt Cobain playing his Fender Jaguar guitar during Nirvana's epic set at the 1992 Reading Festival.

    Kurt Cobain playing his Fender Jaguar guitar during Nirvana's epic set at the 1992 Reading Festival. View Photo »

  9. There used to be a recording studio called Sound City that was in the San Fernando Valley. Nirvana recorded there in 1991. It was this really beautiful dump in the middle of a warehouse district. A lot of great records were made there ... Fleetwood Mac made records there, Neil Young made records there, ...
    SOURCE: MTV.com 3 weeks ago
  10. Nirvana - Polly
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  11. This Week in Music History: May 20 - 26 -- John Lennon Gives Peace a Nap, Nirvana Baby Takes a Dip, Tommy Lee Goes to Jail
    Spinner.com logo Spinner.com 19 hours ago

    This was the week that Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young wrote "Ohio" in 1970 and warned everyone that Nixon was coming. The times, they also a-changed forever because someone was born, and because someone else decided to sit around in bed at a hotel. ... Full Article at Spinner.com

  12. Shirley Manson doesn't care if Garbage is 'Not Your Kind of People'
    CNN logo CNN 19 hours ago

    "It's OK not to fit in, and actually, it's OK if you're not cool." Manson was 28 when she burst out of the Madison, Wisconsin, music scene in 1995 with guitarist Steve Marker, bassist Duke Erikson and drummer Butch Vig. As the man who produced the... Full Article at CNN

  13. Check Your Virals: YouTube It's Your Birthday!
    RR.com Originals 1 day ago

    Here are some of the most popular videos on the web this week (that I'm allowed to share on a family-friendly site...) Smells Like Tween Spirit Nirvana I was fully prepared for this to be a horrible parenting video, but it's actually kind of fun. Good... Full Article at RR.com Originals

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  1. In this Sept. 6, 2011 photo, Krist Novoselic, left, and Dave Grohl, center, former members of the band Nirvana, pose with Butch Vig, producer of the band's landmark 1991 album "Nevermind," poses in Los Angeles. A 20th anniversary edition of the album will be released on Sept. 27.
  2. Kurt Cobain playing his Fender Jaguar guitar during Nirvana's epic set at the 1992 Reading Festival.

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In sramanic thought, Nirvana (Sanskrit: निर्वाण, Nirvāṇa; Pali: निब्बान, Nibbāna; Prakrit: णिव्वाण) is the state of being free from both suffering and the cycle of rebirth. It is an important concept in Buddhism and Jainism. Full Article At Wikipedia.org

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  1. When I first heard Nirvana back in the day, I chalked them up to another Guns ‘N’ Roses-type 'head banger' band ... But now, I’ve taken the time to actually listen to Cobain’s lyrics, and read about what he was doing musically, and he truly was revolutionary in his thinking.
    SOURCE: MTV.com 3 weeks ago
  2. There used to be a recording studio called Sound City that was in the San Fernando Valley. Nirvana recorded there in 1991. It was this really beautiful dump in the middle of a warehouse district. A lot of great records were made there ... Fleetwood Mac made records there, Neil Young made records there, ...
    SOURCE: MTV.com 3 weeks ago
  3. NO ONE more exactly personified America's 'slacker' generation than Kurt Cobain, Nirvana's leader and songwriter.
    SOURCE: Term Paper Warehouse 3 weeks ago
  4. Music discovery used to be through one kind of channel like radio or MTV. That’s why Nirvana became so big and buried the stuff that came before it ... Now you don’t have that.
    SOURCE: MLive.com 3 weeks ago
  5. Nirvana are definitely the band that got me into rock and 'Come as You Are' is the first song I learned how to play. I remember sitting down and trying to figure it out. I don't even know if I would have tried to play the bass or guitar if it wasn't for Nirvana, because I spent a lot of time just learni...
    SOURCE: This Is London 3 weeks ago
  6. Nirvana are definitely the band that got me into rock and 'Come as You Are' is the first song I learned how to play. I remember sitting down and trying to figure it out. I don't even know if I would have tried to play the bass or guitar if it wasn't for Nirvana, because I spent a lot of time just learni...
    SOURCE: This Is London 3 weeks ago
  7. Thunders picks up where Nirvana and My Bloody Valentine left off ... A wallowing guitar racket with layer upon layer of effected guitars and catchy melodies.
    SOURCE: The Ball State Daily News 4 weeks ago
  8. My guitar teacher, although he was a classical teacher he also liked Nirvana. He could sense that I wanted to do other stuff as well so he encouraged me to play like them.
    SOURCE: Bristol 24/7 1 month ago
  9. I had three posters on my bedroom wall – Nirvana, one of the real Beatles and a signed Bootlegs poster from that first concert. In my mind as a lad, they all had equal status, so to be joining them full-time is amazingly ridiculous.
    SOURCE: This is Gloucestershire 2 months ago
  10. What was grunge music – or ‘sludge’ – was this heavy, distorted guitar thing ... And that sort of evolved into Nirvana. Not a lot of people know that.
    SOURCE: Los Altos Town Crier 2 months ago
  11. I was such an emo teenager ... I was listening to Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins. Those were my favorites [but] I also liked Tracy Chapman. And Whitney, obviously. Her voice and her attitude, I felt, translated beyond race. She wasn't a hip-hop R&B black girl. She just did good music, and that's what I w...
    SOURCE: Spinner.com 2 months ago
  12. Well, we don’t sound like Madonna. Here we are now, we’re Nirvana. Sing distinctly? We don’t wanna. Buy our album, we’re Nirvana. Well, I’m yellin’, and we’re playin’, but I don’t know what I’m sayin’. What’s the message I’m conveyin’? Can you tell me what I’m sayin’? So have you got some idea? Didn’t t...
    SOURCE: The Beaufort Tribune 2 months ago
  13. I grew up listening to Sublime, Nirvana, hip-hop, East Coast and West Coast, Snoop, Tupac, Biggie. I loved anything and everything that had guitar on it. It didn’t matter the style or the genre. I wanted to know how to play it. Everything was exciting to me.
    SOURCE: MySpace Music Blog 2 months ago
  14. You can always throw the classics in there, like Pearl Jam, Nirvana, throw some Guns N' Roses in there. Metallica. Foo Fighters are good for pregame. You have to play some upbeat music. You don't want to put them to sleep or make them cry.
    SOURCE: Detroit Free Press 2 months ago
  15. A couple of Black Keys songs. Shinedown has some good songs for the room ... You can always throw the classics in there, like Pearl Jam, Nirvana. Throw some Guns N' Roses in there. Metallica. Foo Fighters are good for pregame. You have to play some upbeat music. You don't want to put them to sleep or ma...
    SOURCE: Detroit News Online 2 months ago
  16. Nirvana was a band that showed me that you could be yourself and do whatever you want in music, regardless of what other bands or trends are happening at the moment ... Their ability to write hard-hitting and soft, melancholy songs is admirable. … I love to play music that has a sort of angst to it. I t...
    SOURCE: Express Milwaukee 2 months ago
  17. I wouldn't be rushing in because all of a sudden the answers seem to be solved and everyone is in nirvana. What we have been doing with our clients, we've significantly increased our allocation to asset groups that are what we would call noncorrelated assets - assets that tend to have a performance metr...
    SOURCE: Tulsa World 2 months ago

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