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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...