February 12th, 2013

The Nevermind Orchestra, “the world’s ONLY all-brass Nirvana tribute band,” play “Come as You Are” in a New York subway station. They’re playing the city’s Sullivan Hall this Friday, February 15.

January 18th, 2013

The [cover artist] cites an email he received from Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O yesterday in response to the cover ruckus: “We don’t have fans because we do what they want us to do, we have fans because we do whatever we want and that’s really what they want the most.”

Click here to read the rest of my new RollingStone.com story, “Inside the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Controversial New Album Cover.”

December 20th, 2012
Display case from In Bloom: The Nirvana Nevermind Exhibit (London, 2011).

Display case from In Bloom: The Nirvana Nevermind Exhibit (London, 2011).

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November 7th, 2012

Nirvana Nevermind jigsaw puzzle (300 pieces), available here. (H/T Charles R. Cross)

October 22nd, 2012

The Hollywood Reporter: ‘Big Bang Theory’ Writer Developing Family Comedy ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ at CBS


Or, as the Onion A.V. Club puts it, “Last lingering shred of ‘alternative’ culture dies as CBS buys Smells Like Teen Spirit sitcom.”

From the Hollywood Reporter piece: “The multicamera comedy revolves around an 18-year-old budding entrepreneur who forgoes Harvard and instead opts to launch a multibillion-dollar Internet company from his garage with the assistance of his sister, best friend and his 1990s indie-rock parents.” (Full story
here; H/T Jason Baldwin)

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