nirvana

Man, he looks exactly like the guy from Them Crooked Vultures! And is he related to the guy who filled in as drummer for Queens of the Stone Age for a couple years?

Yesterday, Seattle's famous indie record label received a heartfelt letter from a Virginia Tech student asking if Nirvana, the legendary grunge band that split up in 1994, would be willing to appear in a pep rally video to be shown during Homecoming Week, alongside several other recording artists like Ying Yang Twins, Slightly Stoopid and "three famous NFL stars." According to Sub Pop's Tumblr blog post, the staff members did their best to accommodate by dressing up like Nirvana and recording a response video to be released in coming days.

Dave and Dave got nothing. Unless you're counting Queens of the Stone Age and Them Crooked Vultures. Then Grohl might have the slight edge.

I see I'm not the only one who chews on his guitar picks.

The cover's in the via link. Props to Cyrus for covering a song that was barely out before she was born, but SRSLY.

Plain jeans and a T-shirt? How dare she! Why don't girls today wear corsets like they did in the good old days?

These paintings (and one drawing) were locked in storage after Cobain's death. Courtney Love recently unveiled them for auction. They were painted in 1993, during the recording of Nirvana's last album In Utero, and at the height of Kurt's drug addiction.