Nick Soulsby's Blog: Nirvana's Legacy

I’m a great believer in the redemptive power of creativity, that fashioning one’s own refuge or torrent can provide safety when the world becomes too much or can expel negative feelings so they don’t hiss inside the head so much. Of course, I think it’s clear that many artists have no alternative, they have to … Continue reading Artists: Depression, Anxiety & Rage

https://www.inquirer.com/news/kurt-co... I haven’t posted about Nirvana much in quite a long while. Essentially, being consumed by the topic on a daily basis, long into each night after work, left me quite ’emptied’. I’d spent hundreds of hours manipulating spreadsheets of data to provide answers or, at least, suggest thoughts about questions I had about the … Continue reading The Rarest Thing: an Insightful Nirvana Article at 28 Years’ Distance

Finally! Britain at last gets a chance to absorb Beth B’s fascinating film on the life and work of Lydia Lunch. 28th October, I’m off to The Barbican in London, for the U.K. premiere showing – and because I’m curious to hear Lydia speak herself in the Q&A portion. Music is a conversation between kids […]

https://www.jumblebee.co.uk/johnpeelc... Some intriguing stuff going at this charity fundraising auction to create an arts centre in Suffolk. Runs until the 30th August.

Who was handling drums the first time the name Nirvana appeared on a show flyer? Who was drumming the first time Nirvana played a show in Seattle? Who was the guy on drums when Jonathan Poneman and Bruce Pavitt of Sub Pop decided they were worth a single? Dave Foster was drummer for Nirvana during […]

https://kevindrumm.bandcamp.com/music One of the lyrics that floats through my head quite often is “what happened to us? We were the kings of the back of the bus and now it’s just massage music in your house,” from Steven James Adams’ song ‘Kings Of The Back Of The Bus’ (Old Magic, FortunaPop). There’s more functional sound […]

https://www.zvuki.ru/R/P/81338/ The Russian language music publication Zvuki is inviting musicians to support the ongoing struggles in Belarus with their statements of support and videos. If you would like to support the campaign, or would like to share this with artists and musicians you believe would be interested, please do so. I’ve included below the statement […]

Sometimes I get asked by music magazines and websites to contribute to ‘best of’ lists and I always have to decline. It’s nothing personal about the format, it’s just that the majority of what I watch, read or listen to each year is rarely new or from that year. I’m usually ploughing deeper into some […]

A month back I did a big three-part piece summarising the known rarities recorded by The Stooges 1969-1974. In a gloriously timely moment, I learnt around the same time that there was a new five-disc compilation coming out from Cherry Red Records bringing together a bunch of the key live recordings from the band’s final […]

As a fan of outsider musicians, fringe music scenes, and alternative cultures, I’ve always been fascinated by mainstream responses to ‘the weird’. In essence, a majority of people are trying really hard to fit in and avoid standing out: it means, when young, they don’t get bullied or abused, and it’s the easiest path to […]