Nirvana (music group)

Review: Brad Mehldau, the Bad Plus push jazz further ahead at UCLA

2013-05-05 12:40:00

Sometimes, you can tell a lot about a show based on its audience. In addition to drawing an inspiringly big, deeply attentive crowd to Royce Hall to close out the first season for the newly named Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA (and new...

Coachella 2013: For Major Lazer and New Order, nostalgia is key

2013-04-21 09:24:00

Major Lazer, like many dance-hall and EDM artists, traffics in nostalgia via sentimental ’80s and ’90s samples. New Order, a band that helped forge the sound of dance music decades ago, traffics in the nostalgia of its own songs. At...

The Three O'Clock rolls around again, this time for Coachella

2013-04-13 12:00:00

Showtime was only minutes away at the Glass House in Pomona on a recent Saturday night as Michael Quercio, Danny Benair, and Louis Gutierrez, three original members of the Los Angeles psychedelic pop quartet the Three O'Clock, prepared for their first...

Kurt Cobain died 19 years ago today

2013-04-05 10:58:00

Nineteen years ago Friday, the singer for the most important American rock band of the '90s died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his Seattle home. Kurt Cobain was only 27, leaving behind his wife Courtney Love and daughter Frances Bean Cobain.� His...

Grunge-influenced Wavves and Mudhoney diverge

2013-04-01 19:20:00

When Nathan Williams promises, "Still I'll be your dog," on the new album by his L.A. fuzz-punk band Wavves, he's nodding of course to "I Wanna Be Your Dog" by perhaps the greatest fuzz-punk band of them all, the Stooges. But Williams seems also to be...

SXSW 2013: Dave Grohl's Sound City Players go big (before going home)

2013-03-15 10:01:00

AUSTIN, Texas -- By many accounts the South by Southwest music festival is about discovering new talent: the fresh-faced indie-pop outfit, for instance, or the precocious laptop wizard just stepping beyond the walls of his bedroom. Dave Grohl doesn't...

SXSW 2013: Kathleen Hanna reemerges in 'The Punk Singer'

2013-03-12 14:47:00

AUSTIN, Texas -- In her bands Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, Kathleen Hanna has brought a fiercely feminist perspective to her lyrics and music, inspiring multiple generations of young women. The new documentary “The Punk Singer,” which is having...

SXSW 2013: The music stories to watch

2013-03-11 06:30:00

On the final night of the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas, last year, a young folk-rock trio from Denver took the makeshift stage at a church a few blocks away from the main action down on 6th Street. The church was about half full,...

Movie review: 'Sound City' is homage to recording studio equipment

2013-01-31 17:47:00

High-spirited, emotional and funny, "Sound City" is, of all things, a mash note to a machine. Not just any machine, however, but one that helped change the face of rock 'n' roll. That piece of equipment, the Neve 8028 sound board, was the crown jewel of...

Live review: Sound City Players at the Hollywood Palladium

2013-02-01 12:42:00

“Rick Springfield, you have a song that people recognize after three frigging notes. Congratulations, Rick frigging Springfield,” Dave Grohl said on Thursday to his colleague in a new band celebrating the former Van Nuys recording studio Sound...

'Backbeat' creators go beyond the standard musical theater fare

2013-01-26 10:11:00

Searching for his way into the new musical "Backbeat," which examines the Beatles' early days (and nights) in Hamburg, Germany, David Leveaux asked himself what he called "the Jerome Robbins question." It's a tactic he picked up in 2004 while overseeing...

Sundance 2013: Documentaries turning to writers to shape narrative

2013-01-24 13:23:00

PARK CITY, Utah — A new title has been added to the list of movie credits that describe jobs few people understand. Move over, gaffer, best boy and second second assistant director, and make room for the "written by" credit on an increasing number...

Dave Grohl discusses Nirvana, Foo Fighters, his punk rock youth and more at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas.

2013-03-14 12:00:55

Dave Grohl has become a keeper of the flame of the Sound City recording studio in Van Nuys, made famous in early sessions with Fleetwood Mac and still revered when Grohl and Nirvana recorded there.

2013-01-31 00:00:00

Paul McCartney, left, jams with drummer Dave Grohl and guitarist Pat Smear at "121212: The Concert for Sandy Relief" benefit in New York.

2012-12-13 11:18:16