Nirvana

Beauty. Pain. Catharsis. Whatever: Nirvana do MTV Unplugged

Thirty years after the release of the band's Unplugged in New York album, Marc Burrows explores the fraught session that saw Nirvana go acoustic before an audience of friends, peers, and, for some reason, Kate Moss

The Road from Seattle to Ireland: Lori Goldston Interviewed

Lori Goldston has just released a lowkey but wonderful album of cello improvisations recorded on the road in the RoI; she talks to Stevie Chick about her love for the instrument and the joy she felt playing live with Nirvana and Earth

Low Culture Essay: Will Burns On 90s Skate VHS Soundtracks

In this month’s subscriber-exclusive essay, poet and novelist Will Burns argues that skateboarding is close to dancing as he reflects on how the soundtracks of grainy DIY VHS films opened his musical mind

Opening The Show: When The Television Personalities Met Nirvana

In an exclusive extract from his new book *Dreamworld, Or: the fabulous life of Dan Treacy and his band The Television Personalities*, Benjamin Berton records the meeting between Dan Treacy and Kurt Cobain

Food For Thought: An A To Z Guide To Melvins’ Stag

To celebrate the 25th birthday of Melvins' bonkers eighth album, JR Moores presents a users' manual to what the hell was going on


Scratch Acidic: Mark Lanegan Interviewed

Mark Lanegan has written one of the rawest, most talked about memoirs in years, and he has an album out that’s pretty great too. Jeremy Allen calls him in L.A. to find Silicon Valley and the machines conspiring against him in lockdown

Magnificent Cheat: Revisiting Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged In New York

Rather than simply play acoustic versions of their hits, Nirvana treated MTV’s Unplugged show as an opportunity to turn their own music on its head, to connect it to American roots and European glam. 25 years on, the resulting album, MTV Unplugged In New York, stands as their finest work, says David Bennun

Bitter Sweet: The Blue Album By Weezer Revisted

Rock & roll and pop punk fan Michael Hann looks back to Weezer's debut album and asks, 'What went wrong?'

25 Years On: Nirvana’s Incesticide Revisited

Incesticide is often seen as an afterthought of an odds and sods compilation. Wrong, says Brian Coney: it's the true essence of what Nirvana are

Around The Bend: Pearl Jam’s No Code Turns 20

JR Moores looks back two decades and finds it was No Code that provided Grunge's Kid A moment, not In Utero

Watch: Lemmy Interview – Hawkwind To Punk Via Human Crabs

The Quietus hooks up with Loud Pixels to present a revealing interview with Motorhead's Lemmy (first published December 2010)

An Exceedingly Female Space: Hole’s Live Through This Revisited

25 years since its release, Amy Pettifer examines a classic album, in part driven by the conflicts between its riot grrl roots and its mainstream feminist agenda, and in part (unwittingly) driven by tragedy

A Nail In The Coffin: Soundgarden’s Superunknown Revisited

Val Siebert looks back 20 years to a band's attempts to shrug off the grunge tag

Nirvana’s Howl At The Moon: In Utero Revisited, 20 Years On

Daniel Ross doesn't care which mix of this extraordinary album he's listening to...

Supersonic 2012: Dylan Carlson Interviewed – Faerie Liquid

Jessica Charlotte Crowe catches up with Dylan Carlson to talk big ideas and little people...

READ: Nirvana – The Recording Sessions

The Quietus presents a short extract, from the book by Rob Jovanovic, released this year for the first time in the UK

Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite For Destruction – 25 Years On

Jimmy Martin examines the perfect storm of raunch, repulsiveness and riffs that went into "the greatest hard rock record of the 80s"

Copper Blue 20 Years On: Sugar’s Bob Mould Interviewed

Bob Mould gives a full and frank account of the making of the album that established his post-Hüsker Dü career to Julian Marszalek

Your Attention Please… Greg Dulli Of The Afghan Whigs Interviewed

Greg Dulli is coming out swinging... fighting for his rep as always. Simon Price takes notes

30 Years On: The Wipers’ Youth Of America Revisited

The Wipers' Youth of America is 30 years old. John Calvert explains why it means so much to him

My Own Private Nirvana: Revisiting Nevermind 30 Years On

Three decades on from Nevermind, John Calvert explores Nirvana's smash record in comparison to Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho

Why Courtney Love Was Kurt Cobain’s Lyrical Equal

Fuck You ’92: Why We Don’t Need An Early 90s Revival

DMs, Neds Atomic Dustbin, John Major . . . why oh why is 1992 being classed a glory year, asks Charles Ubaghs

Bat For Lashes’ Natasha Khan On Finding Her Style

Natasha Khan tells Luke Turner her fashion dictact, what gentlemen should be sporting this season, and how divine intervention can help a shopping trip

Foo For Thought: Dave Grohl On The Song He Wrote For Kurt Cobain

This week sees the release of a Foo Fighters DVD _Live At Wembley Stadium_. John Doran takes the opportunity to talk to Dave Grohl about music and his life.

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No Repeats: Tunde Adebimpe’s Favourite Albums

In the wake of his debut solo album, the TV On The Radio vocalist looks back to his longstanding love of mixtapes for an eclectic Baker's Dozen – taking in 60s psychedelia, hip hop, krautrock, dub, IDM, and his eight-year-old daughter's love of Lightning Bolt

E3 Worldwide: Dizzee Rascal’s Favourite Albums

As Dizzee Rascal releases his first album since 2017, he guides Aaron Bishop through the songs that shaped him and how the artists behind them resonated with him from being the only black kid playing Nirvana on the estate to smoking with Snoop Dogg.

Ongoing Adventures: Rachel Unthank’s Favourite Albums

Jude Rogers speaks to Rachel Unthank about her abiding love for and political importance of maintaining the folk tradition... but explains she wasn't averse to a bit of Faith No More when it all got too much. This week's Baker's Dozen.

(13 On The) Wheels Of Steel: Biff Byford Of Saxon’s Favourite LPs

Biff Byford guides Michael Hann through the 13 records of riff-heavy magic that shaped Saxon

Pulling At The Threads: Katie Gately’s Favourite Albums

On the release of her new album, Loom, the Brooklyn musician and sound artist talks about the records that have weaved their way through her life, from Joy Division to Joanna Newsom, Philip Glass to Low and This Heat

From Raw To Clean: Helena Hauff’s Favourite Records

Ahead of her appearance at this month's Berlin Atonal festival, Helena Hauff guides Kate Hutchinson through 13 favourite records, from Iggy to Serge and Loop to a host of true bangerz

‘Snake Hits: Frank Carter’s Favourite Albums

Frank Carter of Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes is one of the nicest men in all rock - here he sits down with Patrick Clarke to discuss the music that has shaped his life

Lay Of Her Land: Brix Smith Start’s Favourite Albums

As she prepares to release a debut album with her band of former Fall troopers, Brix Smith Start takes Julian Marszalek through some of the records that have shaped her life

Sense Of Absurdity: Jonathan Higgs Of Everything Everything’s Favourite Albums

The Manchester indie band's frontman gives Christopher Sanders a tour of the formative records of his teenage years, and explains why they, along with Australia's longest-running soap opera, have made a lasting impression

Sonic DNA: Natasha Khan Of Bat For Lashes’ Favourite Albums

As part of our series of articles previewing this year's Field Day Festival, Natasha Khan roots through her record collection to pick out her 13 top LPs

Killing Joke’s Youth On His 13 Favourite Records

In our latest Baker's Dozen feature, Youth tells us about his 13 favourite albums