Credit: Acacia Evans August 22, 2025: Today, the Indiana-born, Nashville-based rising star Stephen Wilson Jr. announced a new EP Blankets and released his moving interpretation of Nirvana’s “Something In The Way.” Arriving on August 29 via Big Loud Records, the four song EP will also feature covers of Temple of the Dog’s “Hunger Strike,” The …
This is an incredibly good ’87-’96 tribute: Pixies, Posies, Replacements, Nirvana, Weezer, Matthew Sweet, the theme to “That 70s Show,” and (my favorite Seattle band of the era) Flake, all in a single song. What’s more, the official music video, below, is packed with dozens of smile-inducing visual homages to ’90s slacker film and TV. …
You must hear this! Gramatik · Gramatik Vs. Nirvana Vs. Bill Burr – Lake Of Fire Flip
What planet is this from? How was anyone ever so young? I had forgotten Tabitha Soren looked like Leslie Gore. https://youtu.be/q9cxMsGFgQ8
Remember when bands were super depressed in the 1990s but everything was pretty awesome? That’s clinical depression. Listening to Nirvana unplugged with Megan Lueck on the late night tip. My heart goes out to those dealing with that struggle. …also the 90s were awesome. Yet today I also dig doing back strokes in Olympic swimming …
A friend and trusted contributor has lamented the recent nomination of Kiss for inclusion in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame saying, “In that same nomination group is Nirvana and the Replacements. Wrap your mind around that. A talentless marketing phenomenon anchored in heavy makeup pitched against the very essence of substance over style. …
[Gillian Gaar will read from her new book on 9/15 at Orca Books in Olympia at 3 pm and on 9/18 at Elliott Bay Books in Seattle at 7 pm.] As someone who makes it a point to attend every Gillian Gaar-related event I can, I was delighted to find her guesting on my ol’ pal Marco Collins‘ …
[Gillian Gaar will read from her new book on 9/15 at Orca Books in Olympia at 3 pm and on 9/18 at Elliott Bay Books in Seattle at 7 pm.] My friend Gillian Gaar loved this story when I shared it with her many years ago, and asked me to write it up while she …
Full story is here. Also, the baby who appeared on Nirvana’s Nevermind is all grown up: And here’s how he looked back then: . .
Thanks go to Jenny Westberg for finding this:
Here’s the Youtube description, “Kurt Cobain stage dives during Love Buzz and accidentally hits this psycho with his guitar, who then goes mental.” And here are the two top comments from the Youtube page: “I love how Dave Grohl leaps over everything to make sure kurt is ok.” – rgavin89 “Story: Nirvana were playing at …
“Weren’t Young Fresh Fellows more important in the grand scheme of things than Nirvana? And wasn’t Popllama more significant than SubPop? – East Portland Blog Critic’s Roundtable, Part 1 (This conversation has four parts.) Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 Through the 1980s a couple of different strains ran through …
Also in the Michael Jackson Suite at EastPortlandBlog.com: Tribute to Michael Jackson From Patrick Stump of Fallout Boy Brazilian Cab Driver Impersonates Michael Jackson Spectacularly On the Occasion of Michael Jackson’s Death, by Andrew Hamlin Smells Like Rockin’ Robin (Nirvana vs The Jackson 5) – A Mashup Michael Jackson – Thriller (A Cappella) Three Year …
From: J Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 9:04 AM To: Kipp, Thomas J Subject: RE: Brand new praise for TK’s 1982-83 stint w/ Diction, from a thoroughly unexpected source! So what exactly makes something grunge and how was the DD song the beginning of it? I know that back in the day (when I walked …
From: J Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 9:04 AM To: Kipp, Thomas J Subject: RE: Brand new praise for TK’s 1982-83 stint w/ Diction, from a thoroughly unexpected source! So what exactly makes something grunge and how was the DD song the beginning of it? I know that back in the day (when I walked …