• Throwback Thursday: Celebrate Kurt Cobain's 47th Birthday with 'MTV Unplugged In New York'

    Today (Feb. 20) marks what would have been Nirvana frontman/grunge leader Kurt Cobain's 47th birthday. Though, of course, this year marks 20 years since he took his own life, his groundbreaking music continues to live on. Even though Nirvana have released a slew of posthumous releases since 1994, for today's #ThrowbackThursday, we'll look at the very first one, and the album that somehow ended up feeling like a tribute to Cobain: Nirvana's acoustic record MTV Unplugged in New York.

  • Record Store Day 2014: announced releases so far, and noticeable Trends

    Record Store Day's website hasn't released an official list yet, but fortunately there are dedicated souls have been combing the internet and compiling a list based on previously announced exclusives. We looked over what they found and noticed some obvious (and less obvious) themes.

  • NME lists its 500 best songs of all time: Nirvana, The Smiths and The Strokes vie for top spot

    "Greatest songs of all time" lists are nothing new, but we admit we're curious to see what the folks at NME have come up with. After all, the magazine emphasizes rock from the U.K., and the U.K. has produced many of the most influential groups of all time. Interestingly, NME opted to shy away from the obvious big names, at least in its top five (only 500-401 and the top five have been released thus far).

  • Demos from Dain Bramage, Dave Grohl's Pre-Nirvana band, discovered

    Dave Grohl has been involved with plenty of bands, but people will always bring it back to Nirvana. Even as Grohl enters his 20th year as the leader of the Foo Fighters, his reputation is still based more on his four-year tenure with Nirvana (fans of the latter band know he wasn't even with the band on its debut, Bleach). And of course, Grohl was involved with other groups before he came to Nirvana. One of those bands was Dain Bramage, and eight of its tracks from 1986 were recently dug up.

  • April 10th to be declared Nirvana Day in Hoquiam, Washington

    Following Nirvana's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the city of Hoquiam, Washington has declared April 10th to be Nirvana Day. The city is part of Grays Harbor County and sits just four miles from Kurt Cobain's hometown of Aberdeen. Cobain lived in Hoquiam for a short period of time, enough for the city's major, Jack Durney, to declare that the band brought "great honor ... to the entire community."

  • Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announces 2014 inductees: Nirvana, Kiss, Peter Gabriel, Hall and Oates, Cat Stevens, Linda Ronstadt and more

    The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has officially announced the class of 2014. Next year, Nirvana, Kiss, Peter Gabriel, Hall and Oates, Cat Stevens and Linda Ronstadt will be inducted, according to Rolling Stone. The E Street Band will be given the Award for Musical Excellence and Beatles manager Brian Epstein and original Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham will be recipients of the Ahmet Ertegun Award for non-performers.
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