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  Soundgarden Bassist Ben Shepherd Reflects on Almost Joining Nirvana

  May 30, 2013 – Casual fans of Nirvana might not know the band once considered adding Soundgarden's current bassist as a second guitarist. Ben Shepherd, who toured with Kurt Cobain's band early on in a roadie-like role, looked back on the era in a recent interview with Denver's Westword. "Well, I was supposed to play lead guitar for them," Shepherd said. "But they stayed a three-piece. …
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  Let It Bleed: The Oral History of PJ Harvey's 'Rid of Me'

  May 1, 2013 – PJ Harvey has a walloping, 50-foot-tall legacy — musicially and emotionally raw when stadium angst was a boys club; opening the door for everyone from Alanis to Karen O. But in 1993, PJ Harvey was the name of a band: bassist Steve Vaughan, drummer Rob Ellis, and frontwoman Polly Jean Harvey, who would soon after come to be known as "PJ Harvey" regardless of whom she played with. …
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  Kurt Cobain Died 19 Years Ago Today

  April 5, 2013 – Nineteen years ago today (April 5), Kurt Cobain's short life came to a sudden, tragic end. In 1994, the Nirvana frontman, at age 27, took his own life in the greenhouse of his Seattle home. …
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  Fred Armisen Picks His 5 Favorite Dave Grohl Drum Performances

  February 21, 2013 – "When Dave Grohl was going to be on the show [with Them Crooked Vultures]," recalls Saturday Night Live castmember and Portlandia costar Fred Armisen, "I thought, 'How can I get this amazing drummer in a sketch?'" The resulting "Crisis of Conformity" performance occupies a special place in Armisen's musical memory, but the former Trenchmouth drummer, who, it must be said, bears an uncanny resemblance to percussion virtuoso Jens Hanneman …
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  Dave Grohl: The SPIN Cover Shoot

  February 20, 2013 –  …
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  Yes He Can: Inside SPIN's February Dave Grohl Cover Story

  February 19, 2013 – The first time Dave Grohl appeared on the cover of SPIN was January 1992, when Lauren Spencer excitedly wrote, "Return to your seats, buckle up, and say your prayers: Nirvana is on a collision course with the world." Tomorrow, Grohl will grace his seventh SPIN cover, and this time it's the 44-year-old multihyphenate who's doing the gushing: "Can you imagine? …
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  Sex Idiot Ryan Lochte Reenacts Peen-less Nirvana 'Nevermind' Album Cover

  February 6, 2013 – Those of us who thought about last summer's London Olympics more in terms of Blur and the Spice Girls than "individual medleys" and "world records" might dimly remember that time some guy tried to trademark the catchphrase "jeah." Well, that guy's name was Ryan Lochte, and apparently he won five overall medals as a swimmer at those very same Olympics. …
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  Watch Foo Fighters Play Live With Stevie Nicks, John Fogerty, and Nirvana Members

  February 1, 2013 – Dave Grohl's Sound City Players, after debuting at the Sundance Film Festival, came out for a star-studded repeat performance last night. As NME reports, Grohl and company put on a three-and-a-half-hour, 38-song set at the Palladium in Hollywood.Foo Fighters served as a Grohl's de facto backing group for much of the night, and a jaw-dropping array of guests joined them onstage. …
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  Dave Grohl on Skinny Ties, Diamond Dave, and Kurt Cobain's 'Heartbreaking' Death

  January 31, 2013 – Dave Grohl continues to make the podcast rounds in support of his Sundance-christened, star-studded Sound City documentary. The Foo Fighters frontman's latest stop? Comedian Chris Hardwick's weekly Nerdist podcast, where the ex-Nirvana drummer discusses his new film but also opens up about going solo after Kurt Cobain's death in 1994."At that time I didn't really want to think about Nirvana," Grohl says. …
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  4 Foo Fighters Cover Stories for Dave Grohl's 44th Birthday

  January 14, 2013 – Dave Grohl turns 44 today, and we're celebrating with four Foo Fighters cover stories from the SPIN archives. Read 'em all for an illuminating look at the nicest dude in rock's evolution from giddy Nirvana grad to a defiant bandleader in his own right:July 1997: So Happy Together "Nirvana was nuts, it was crazy. I made my way through all of that other bullshit, and now I'm back to square one. …
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