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...music veteran, Dave Grohl's story is perfect fodder for a "VH1: Behind the Music" special. (Indeed, GQ did a fashion spread with Grohl that parodied that much-maligned TV series.) Born in Ohio and raised in Virginia, Grohl splashed onto the Seattle grunge scene as the drummer for Nirvana on the group's legendary album, Nevermind, and became known as the "cheerful" member of the band. His mutually antagonistic relationship with Kurt Cobain's wife, Courtney Love, has been well documented. A year after Cobain's suicide, Grohl released the Foo Fighters' first album-a guitar-heavy jamfest...
Powered by electric pumps, these aquatic Nirvana kits are being sold in stores as varied as Bed Bath & Beyond, OfficeMax and the Sports Authority. Helene Jeffer, a middle-aged Board of Education supervisor in New York City, recently bought one at T.J. Maxx. "It's very soothing," she says, but confesses to having moved the 24-hour trickler out of her bedroom because it inspired too many trips to the bathroom...
Neil Young was right: rock 'n' roll can never die. The wildly talented alternative-rock band Nirvana, so self-aware and yet so self-destructive, penned rock's suicide note. Hootie-lite fluff bands like Matchbox Twenty supplied the sleeping pills. And gangsta-rap acts like Jay-Z, gloating over their genre's dominance in the marketplace, delivered the eulogy. But rock still isn't dead. In fact, in the past two years it has been rejuvenated creatively and commercially by hip-hop rock acts such as Deftones and others. And this week rock receives another jolt of new life...
...rebelliousness ultimately appeals to white young people as much as it does to Black young people. That and "white music" suffering slumps from time to time made the white embrace of hip-hop inevitable - has there really been anything interesting happening in rock music since the heyday of Nirvana? Not really...
...Iovine, CEO of Farmclub.com and co-chairman of Interscope Geffen A&M Records. "With more people getting into music, you'll find that there are more people capable of becoming great artists and having great ideas." The Web hasn't produced the new Kurt Cobain yet, but--who knows?--Nirvana could be a click away...