Nirvana, to me, is a perfect name for the band. The dictionary definition of nirvana is “an ideal condition for rest, harmony, stability, or joy”. It is “the liberation from unhappiness…” This so accurately describes the band. Even though Kurt Cobain, lead singer of the band, expresses the depressions in his life through his lyrics, ...
A friend, Chris, introduced me the the music of Foo Fighters founder Dave Grohl and I didn’t even know it. It was 1994 and Chris had learned of the death of Nirvana front-man Kurt Cobain. Like the boy in Nick Hornby’s 1998 novel ‘About a Boy’, I had no idea who this Kirk O’Bain guy ...
The concert DVD that I have waited 12 years for has finally been released. Nirvana: Unplugged in New York was released to the public on November 20, 2007. It is the first ever public release of the unplugged concert featuring one of the most influential bands on the past 20 years. For many fans, this ...
Nirvana, the hard-hitting grunge band out of Seattle, belted out so many great hits it is difficult to choose just ten. Of course, the band ended its legendary run in 1994 when troubled lead singer Kurt Cobain took his own life with a shotgun. While fans of Nirvana continue to mourn the loss of Kurt ...
Almost everyone who calls themselves a fan of Nirvana, alternative music, or music in general has heard Nirvana’s classic acoustic release “Unplugged in New York”. If not, then it is about time they pick up a copy of one of Rolling Stone’s top 500 albums of all-time. The clear musical capabilities and raw emotion that ...
In many ways, Nirvana was my introduction to music beyond what could be heard on local radio and MTV. Sure, in the early 1990s Nirvana was an incredibly popular band, but their popularity saved me from a life of listening to the cookie-cutter hair bands that dominated much of mainstream music in the years before ...