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  -  The Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp is scheduled to unite legends from Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice In Chains. Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp is gearing up for their next exciting camp, “Sounds of Seattle.” This unique experience celebrates what many consider to be the golden age of Alternative Rock and is set to take place over Presidents’ Day weekend, February 17-20, 2022 in Los Angeles, California with special guests Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains, Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil, and Dave Krusen, the original drummer of Pearl Jam. In addition to jamming and learning from an array of talent, attendees will play public performances at the legendary venues The Viper Room and The Whisky-A-Go-Go in Hollywood. Campers can reserve their spot now at Rock Camp’s website. Mentor Dave Krusen (Pearl Jam, Candlebox) will be jamming with the campers on Sunday, February 20th at the famous Whisky-a-Go-Go at 7:30 pm. -  Returning to the camp for a record third time is Alice in C...

  -  Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder recently opened up on the late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. Vedder went on to recall how it was rumored that Nirvana earned a huge paycheck. Eddie Vedder opens up on Kurt Cobain The Pearl Jam frontman recently joined in for an interview with the New York Times when it was noted that Cobain had a major influence on the evolution of both Vedder and Pearl Jam. During the interview, Vedder noted that he heard a rumor about Cobain getting a massive paycheck and that seemed ‘exciting’. Previously, Eddie Vedder revealed a humiliating video clip of Motley Crue. -  He revealed how Krist Novoselic had a couple of jukeboxes- LPs and 45s and also a couple of pinball machines. He believed that they could replicate the same with their works: “The things that I remember sound inconsequential. I remember hearing through the rumor mill that Nirvana had got a big check, and that seemed exciting. We were excited for them — and wond...

  -  I was a closeted Midwesterner in the 90s. Listening to Nirvana changed my life. In September 1991, I was a nervous freshman at the University of Michigan, sitting on a friend’s dorm room floor, when a guy ran in from down the hall, saying, “You’ve got to hear this.” He fed a cassette tape into the stereo, and I heard “Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Nirvana for the first time. It’s hard to capture how radical that song and that moment felt. Cobain and his bandmates were suddenly ubiquitous, an explosion of insolent Pacific Northwest cool into my deeply uncool, and fundamentally conservative, Midwestern world. (A few months later, Nirvana’s “Nevermind” supplanted Michael Jackson’s “Dangerous” atop the Billboard charts.) Hearing his music was like receiving a dispatch from another spiritual plane, one that offered irrefutable evidence that there were other ways of living — and maybe other ways of loving, too.  I don’t speak of love idly. Cobain is the Gen X icon who popula...

  -  The news of   Mark Lanegan’s death   broke early this afternoon, and it’s already sending shockwaves across the rock landscape. The former   Screaming Trees   frontman was a towering figure in the history of grunge. Starting in 1986 with their LP   Clairvoyance , Lanegan and his bandmates set the stage for Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and so much music that followed in their wake. The Nineties would have unfolded in imaginably different ways without his influence. For a tiny bit of proof, check out this rendition of “Where Did You Sleep Last Night” from Lanegan’s 1990 solo debut  The Winding Sheet . If that electric guitar and voice in the background sound familiar to you, that’s because it’s Kurt Cobain. Krist Novoselic is on bass, with Screaming Trees’ Mark Pickerel on drums. The recording session took place shortly after Nirvana wrapped their 1989  Bleach  tour. Cobain spent days at a time chilling with Lanegan in Olym...

-  Alice In Chains have posted a video reacting to the death of Grunge icon Mark Lanegan, as seen below. Lanegan sang with Layne Staley on Mad Season’s ‘Above’ album, with “Long Gone Day” being a legendary duet between the two Seattle singers. The   Mark Lanegan last photo   has also been revealed. -  The Wolfgang Van Halen fronted outfit Mammoth WVH has had a fairly successful year so far with their self-titled debut album dropping last June. Forging down his own musical path since the death of his father – the iconic Eddie Van Halen in 2020, the ex-Van Halen bassist is not only performing all instruments and vocals in Mammoth WVH but he has also written all of the songs on the debut album.   The family of this Alice In Chains member recently got this massive paycheck. Mammoth WVH kicked out their ‘Young Guns’ tour on February 20th in Denver Colorado and recently made their television debut performing such hits as ‘Distance’ on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Durin...

  -  They cut this Lead Belly cover three years before the legendary acoustic rendition from Nirvana’s  Unplugged  special The news of Mark Lanegan’s death broke early this afternoon, and it’s already sending shockwaves across the rock landscape. The former Screaming Trees frontman was a towering figure in the history of grunge. Starting in 1986 with their LP  Clairvoyance , Lanegan and his bandmates set the stage for Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and so much music that followed in their wake. The Nineties would have unfolded in imaginably different ways without his influence. For a tiny bit of proof, check out this rendition of “Where Did You Sleep Last Night” from Lanegan’s 1990 solo debut  The Winding Sheet . If that electric guitar and voice in the background sound familiar to you, that’s because it’s Kurt Cobain. Krist Novoselic is on bass, with Screaming Trees’ Mark Pickerel on drums. The recording session took place shor...

  -  Green Day’s frontman and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong recently celebrated his 50th birthday last Thursday, February 17. Recently, a video clip from the musician’s party surfaced where he was spotted performing a cover version of Nirvana’s classic “Drain You”, accompanied by his bandmates. Billie Joe Armstrong performs Nirvana song The video clip was Recorded by drummer and agent Scott Lipps. The short video clip showed Billie Joe accompanied by Green Day’s Mike Dirnt and Jason White on bass and second guitar respectively while making his best Kurt Cobain impression. -  This isn’t the first time that the band tackled Nirvana, as their cover band act “The Coverups” has played “Drain You” live in the past as well. Green Day are set to go on one of the year’s biggest tours, the Hella Mega Tour with Fall Out Boy and Weezer, passing by the U.K. and Europe during Summer, with all dates and venues available   here .  Green Day recently performed at Super...

  -  Slash achieved fame with  Guns N’ Roses  in the late 80s when the so called ‘Hair Metal’ was the most successful subgenre in Rock and Roll music and a few years later when they were already a famous band they had another big enemy, the Grunge Rock, that was ‘killing’ Heavy Metal and Hard Rock, taking control of the Rock mainstream. The most famous band of the new subgenre that emerge back then was  Nirvana , that ended too soon after the tragic death of guitarist and singer Kurt Cobain in 1994. Over the years many musicians talked about the Nirvana and one of them was Slash, that gave his opinion in interviews over the years, also talking about other bands of that era. What Is Guns N’ Roses Slash Opinion On Nirvana In an interview with Kerrang! back in 2019, Slash said he doesn’t like the way that writers refer to Guns N’ Roses, saying that Grunge was what killed the group. Because on Slash’s opinion, they were big already and that didn’t affected th...

  -  Foo Fighters legends Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins recently made their return to the Howard Stern Show on Tuesday morning. They joined Howard and co-host Robin Quivers ahead of the  Foo Fight ers ’ new supernatural horror flick “Studio 666.” Hawkins would like to see Soundgarden join the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2022. During the conversation, Hawkins recalled their Rock Hall acceptance speech. Hawkins notably supported the acts of Jane’s Addiction and Soundgarden getting in, and wants George Michael to one day be inducted alongside Foo Fighters. Taylor Hawkins reflects on the matter: -  He went on to explain his thought process to Howard Tuesday morning, stating that the first two bands came onto the scene during a delicate time in rock ‘n’ roll history when he wasn’t sure if the genre would ever get great again. “As soon as you heard Jane’s Addiction and as soon as you heard Soundgarden it was like … there’s rock on the horizon,”  Taylor said...

  -  This article was written by   Mike Ratherson   and originally was published on Alternative Nation in April 2014. Today would have been Kurt Cobain’s 55th birthday. 1. None of Kurt’s bandmates or close relatives, including his daughter and mother, believe that he was murdered. 2. Kurt’s great-uncles, brothers Burle and Kenneth Cobain, both died by suicide   by self-inflicted gunshots to the head with Burle also shooting himself in the stomach in 1979 and 1984 respectively. Kurt allegedly told an eighth grade friend, Rod Marsh, that he had “suicide genes” citing Burle’s and other relatives suicides. (Source: Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain, By Charles R. Cross.) 3. Kurt made a Super-8 film as a teenager which depicts him violently cutting and stabbing himself with a knife. Kurt was photographed several times pointing guns at his head and also into his mouth in the same manner as his suicide. Although at the time the film and photos...

  -  The independent publishing powerhouse Primary Wave Music recently made an announcement that revealed its acquisition of music rights from the estates of Layne Staley and Mike Starr of the legendary grunge group and Grammy-nominated band Alice In Chains. The deal will see the publisher acquire a stake in Staley’s and Starr’s music publishing catalog, as well as the master royalty income stream.  Previously, Layne Staley’s photo with Van Halen singer surfaced. Layne Staley and Mike Starr families relinquish music rights Many of Alice In Chains’ biggest and most memorable hits are included, songs that defined an era. The list of royalties which were acquired includes “Man In The Box”, “Rooster” and “No Excuses”, as well as their hit recording “Would?” which was released in 1992, and not only appeared in the film “Singles,” but was also included on the critically acclaimed soundtrack. -  Rolling Stone called the song “timeless” saying it’s “the work of a ba...