Nirvana (Musical Group)

Retro Active: 1987, Here We Come

Drenched In Blog: Nirvana’s Unplugged on DVD

Tonight: The Melvins and Big Business at Warehouse Live

XM Nation: Catching Up and Moving On

Yawn: Foo Fighters at ACL Fest

Things That Make Us Feel Old: Pearl Jam Reissuing Ten Next Year

In an announcement that will make many people's beards turn instantly gray, Pearl Jam is planning a re-release campaign in advance of the band's twentieth anniversary in 2011. The band's 1991 debut Ten is the first to get the treatment, due March 24. Yeah, that's right. Pear ... More >>

Things That Make Us Feel Old: The Year 1989

"Hey Ladies" As another year begins, record labels start unleashing commemorative editions of classic albums to take advantage of anniversaries of release dates and more importantly, yo' money. We already got wind of the impending Pearl Jam reissues a few weeks back. Now we get word that the Beasti ... More >>

Sonidos y Mas: Carnaval with Brasil Brazil

www.brasilbrazilshow.comFormed by veteran Brazilian singers Ana Gazzola and Sonia Santos, Los Angeles-based band Brasil Brazil celebrates the music of their native country with an elaborate show that includes several standards and original songs - a formula they devised when they first starte ... More >>

Houston Remembers Kurt Cobain, 15 Years Postmortem

Today marks the fifteenth anniversary of a Seattle electrician discovering the dead body of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain in a small room above the musician's garage. The man who busted indie and punk out of their respective undergrounds had killed himself days prior, with a shotgun that Earth fr ... More >>

The Bad Plus

Today marks the fifteenth anniversary of a Seattle electrician discovering the dead body of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain in a small room above the musician's garage. The man who busted indie and punk out of their respective undergrounds had killed himself days prior, with a shotgun that Earth fr ... More >>

A Girl and Her Garbage

Shirley Manson supplies the fire to fuel some musical waste from Wisconsin

Blunt Force

BMC plays ragga jungle at NoDo's Underground Lounge

Kobain Lounge

Insert Nirvana joke here

Bar X Views

Plus: Junk Food, Junk Suits; Pigeon Hold, Meds for the Poor

The Melvins

Plus: Junk Food, Junk Suits; Pigeon Hold, Meds for the Poor

Drain You

An often-exasperating boxed set offers the final word on Nirvana's legacy

On set with Weird Al Yankovic

The remaking of "Beautiful Liar"

Rogue Waves

A new report cuts through the static on the radio industry

Encore Performance

Don't fret. Guitar Hero II kills the opening act

Big Ben

Breaking Benjamin's front man Ben Burnley

Wolf Eyes, with Prurient and Rusted Shut

Thursday, October 6, at the Proletariat, 903 Richmond, 713-523-1199.

No Way Out

Last Days follows the final spiral of a tormented musician

The Hipster's Guide to Rock and Roll Vendettas

And you thought rappers were the only ones who had beefs

Can't Touch the MMMBop

A new boxed set excavates the '90s

Wideawake

Friday, June 3, at Dan Electro's, 1031 East 24th Street, 713-862-8707.

Rotation

Handsome Boy Modeling School, Molotov and Rufus Wainwright

Pa Rum Pum Pum Pum

Christmas is the weirdest time of the year. Who better to musically document the season than John Waters?

Too Sexy for Their Rock

Fashionable retro-rock has jumped the shark. Here's why.

Playbill

Fashionable retro-rock has jumped the shark. Here's why.

Boogie for Bush!

Dubya and Franz Ferdinand have made it okay for white guys to dance

Jawbreaker

Dear You (Blackball)

Playbill

Dear You (Blackball)

Vendetta Red, with A Static Lullaby, Retisonic, the Bled and Lonely Kings

Friday, May 7

Franz Ferdinand

Franz Ferdinand (Domino)

The Kids in America

When the working day is done, Molly & the Ringwalds just want to have fun

Drastic Unilateral Action

Universal hopes to JumpSTART flagging CD sales with aggressive price cuts. Who benefits the most?

Uptown Down

Girls tries a tired lesson -- grow up, already

Dem Blues

The left, turning right, was plain wrong to attack pop culture

All His Life

The Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl is always between rock and a hard place

The Exies

Inertia (Melisma/Virgin)

Number One with a Bullet

Our take on "rare" Nirvana

Division of Laura Lee

Monday, October 28

The Vines

Saturday, July 27

Pop Goes the Bastard

Unlike the UK, Houston resists the urge to commit plagiarhythm

Playbill

The Melvins

Moore Is More

The former Austin guitar-slinger wants people to know he has more than SRV licks at his disposal

Letters

The former Austin guitar-slinger wants people to know he has more than SRV licks at his disposal

Picks

The former Austin guitar-slinger wants people to know he has more than SRV licks at his disposal

Aftermath: Cake at Verizon Wireless Theater

Photos by Craig HlavatyCake has never sounded like anyone else, and no one that came after has ever come close to sounding like the Sacramento band either. It's not like Nirvana or Green Day, with 1,000 copycat bands immediately coming out of the proverbial woodwork to shove out their own shingle. E ... More >>

Dear Sy~3nc3

Photos by Craig HlavatyCake has never sounded like anyone else, and no one that came after has ever come close to sounding like the Sacramento band either. It's not like Nirvana or Green Day, with 1,000 copycat bands immediately coming out of the proverbial woodwork to shove out their own shingle. E ... More >>