Playback: ACL Fest's First Weeknd Moves Mountains

ACL Fest 2015 weekend one wrap

"...Even with a bum leg, the former Nirvana drummer once again proved a relentless rock & roller...."

Oct. 9, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Doug Sahm for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame!

The Austin Music Hall gets slated for teardown, the Roost closes while looking for a cash infusion, Backyard owner Tim O'Connor gets back in the concert game, and a Kickstarter campaign to get Doug Sahm into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

"...turning point in giving a fuck about songwriting was Nirvana's Unplugged," admits Mazour. "That's the door I walked through..."

July 10, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

About a Girl

Dani Neff shreds Megafauna to Maximalist effect

"...she says. "I love rock. My favorite bands are Nirvana, Radiohead, Queens of the Stone Age, Deerhoof, early Black..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Music Feature by Nina Hernandez

Definitely Maeby

15 minutes with Alia Shawkat

"...AC: Pearl Jam or Nirvana?..."

March 11, 2014 SXSW Post by Russ Espinoza

Narco Cultura

This documentary about the Mexican drug wars and their relationship to populist narcocorrido music becomes a fascinating study of the cultural cycle of violence.

"...previously banned from its shelves – among others – Nirvana and Sheryl Crow, for containing “objectionable content.” It is..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

ThinkNoThink

New single, new imprint, new Black Joe Lewis tour

"...Austin Chronicle: I just read Steve Albini’s letter to Nirvana written before the In Utero recordings. There’s a line:..."

Nov. 13, 2013 Music Post by Andy Bianculli

Nirvana

"...NirvanaIn Utero 20th Anniversary Edition (Universal)..."

Sept. 20, 2013 Music Review by Kevin Curtin

Playback

SXSW news and carryings-on

"...Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Rami Jaffee, and Jessy Greene, plus Nirvana's Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear. Past performances have featured..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Dave Grohl’s Sound City Players to Perform at SXSW

Lottery system for mega SXSW showcases confirms all-star act

"...an all-star musical tie-in to Foo Fighter and former Nirvana drummer David Grohl’s SXSW Film documentary, Sound City...."

March 4, 2013 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Everything Went Black: I Was Dead Before Dead Was Cool

Shoot him in the head. He's dead, he's all messed up

"...be called zombie chic felt about as welcome as Nirvana's first stadium tour felt to a fan of Bleach...."

Oct. 17, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl

The Foo's not talking, so commence digging

"...the Foo Fighters emerged, and yet another examination of Nirvana's Nevermind, scarcely turn over any new stones. At times,..."

June 15, 2012 Music Feature by Luke Winkie

A Boy Named Emo

What was your favorite show on Red River at Emo's?

"...with blinding white supernova rock, for me, they were Nirvana. – Raoul Hernandez Courtney Love1995..."

Dec. 30, 2011 Music Feature

Gay Place

Gay Place likes 'Our Hands on Each Other'

"...dyke imaginable, featuring every type of dyke band imaginable. Nirvana for those of us for whom "lesbian space" was..."

July 9, 2010 Column by Kate X Messer

I Built My Girlfriend's iPod

Stranded on a desert island? At least you have your iPodSolar.

"...I reviewed Nirvana's Nevermind and Pearl Jam's Ten, released August/September in 1991,..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

What We Do Is Secret

Darby Crash, the L.A. punk rock junkie godhead leader of the Germs who died of an overdose in 1980, is revivified in this long-gestating but strangely sterile biopic.

"...other people's teeth and a bifurcated tongue, and former Nirvana guitarist and Crash's best friend, Pat Smear (played here..."

Oct. 17, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

About a Son

The new Kurt Cobain doc features music from some once-locals.

"...1993 book, Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana. The original score was composed by Steve Fisk, who..."

Sept. 11, 2007 Music Post by Austin Powell

Rockabye Baby

Rockabye baby, on the treetops, when the bow breaks, the cradle will rawk!

"...releases, including the Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin, the Cure, Nirvana, Eagles, U2, the Ramones, Nine Inch Nails, No Doubt,..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Saying Goodbye to the Ex

Margaret Moser says goodbye through the ether.

"...Sometime in 1994, I was talking to him about Nirvana. Kurt Cobain had offed himself not long before, and..."

April 30, 2007 Music Post by Margaret Moser

The Last Rock & Roll Deejay

KLBJ cans legendary Johnny Walker

"...that era at KLBJ as some sort of radio nirvana. It was simple, he says. "We played a ton..."

April 13, 2007 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny

How much you'll love (or loathe) JB and KG's passion for the power chord and all it entails will depend, most likely, on your familiarity with the duo beforehand.

"...Stimpy), and the third-act appearance of Grohl (Foo Fighters, Nirvana) as the Horny One, hankering for his tooth and..."

Nov. 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Greatest Gift

An oral history unearthing one of post-punk's most seminal acts: Austin's Scratch Acid

"...their most ardent fans, including Soundgarden's Kim Thayil and Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, the latter of whom once listed the..."

Sept. 1, 2006 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Chest Cavities, Empty Kneecaps, and Elbows

A week at Austin's all-ages live music venue Redrum and the 'School of Rock' lessons learned

"...is playing an adorable Cali-punk sunshine scream-pop cover of Nirvana's "Territorial Pissings," and the kids who were actually alive..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

News/Print

Abe Louise Young eulogizes Allison Crews; plus, a Texas Book Festival update, Bill Hicks across the pond, and June's event offerings

"...will include an appearance by Dean Sluyter, whose Cinema Nirvana: Enlightenment Lessons From the Movies unlocks the spiritual power..."

June 17, 2005 Books Column by Shawn Badgley

Manifesto Destiny

Literate pop, the Elephant 6 in your Parish

"...spitting out its post-capitalist bile in the form of Nirvana, Mudhoney, and Soundgarden. As grunge faded from the public's..."

July 23, 2004 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

To Be and to Have

In this documentary, a one-room schoolhouse in France is a microcosm of the teaching universe.

"...of Auvergne, France, does look a lot like educational nirvana. That has everything to do with the schoolmaster, George..."

Jan. 16, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

I Want My MP3s

The rise and demise of Austin's once dominant file-sharing service, Audiogalaxy

"...week failed to produce even a single track from Nirvana's Bleach! That explains why people are scurrying around the..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

Journals

Sheet Music

"...with lyrics, drawings, and writings about his plans for Nirvana and his thoughts about fame, the state of music,..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Those Magic Moments

Composer, classicist Stephen Barber's encoding and imprinting

"...together very soon.' Even if we didn't, it was nirvana. I knew this was one of the best stories..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Music Feature by Andy Langer

"Austin City Limits" Festival Picks & Sleepers

"...Novoselic, and Bud Gaugh, formerly of the Meat Puppets, Nirvana, and Sublime respectively. Less easily explained is their self-titled..."

Sept. 27, 2002 Music Feature

Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain

Sheet Music

"...its own merits, the passage of time has made Nirvana's pop ascendancy seem more and more like just another..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Music Review by Greg Beets

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