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Nirvana’s “Something In The Way” Featured in The Debut Trailer for “The Batman” 

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Perhaps the most anticipated movie of 2021 is the new Batman movie The Batman! Warner Bros. closed out the DC Fandome weekend on Saturday night and Nirvana’s deep cut “Something In The Way”  featured throughout the trailer of the film, based on the Batman Year One story by Frank Miller. The song was the final track on Nirvana’s breakout 1991 album Nevermind (Geffen Records). The trailer was shown during the highly anticipated panel for Matt Reeves’ (War For The Planet of The Apes), with a script by Terence Winter (Boardwalk Empire) and stars Robert Pattinson as The Dark Knight, Jeffrey Wright Commissioner Gordon, Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman, Paul Dano as The Riddler, Colin Farrell as The Penguin, John Turturro as Carmine Falcone; Andy Serkis as Bruce Wayne’s trusted butler, Alfred, and Peter Sarsgaard as Gotham District Attorney Gil Colson. The film is only 25% finished so the trailer is just the beginning of what the final film will look like. Continue reading →


The Video for “Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Nirvana Approaches 1 Billion Views on YouTube

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Nirvana’s star-making video for ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ which catapulted the band to rock superstardom is approaching one billion video views on YouTube. ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ was the lead track and single from Nirvana’s breakthrough release Nevermind (Geffen/UMe) which hit No. 1 around the world, selling more than 30 million copies worldwide. The single made its radio debut on August 27, 1991. Continue reading →


Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain – 25 Years Later

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For those of a certain age, the news that twenty-five years have passed since the death of Kurt Donald Cobain will scarcely be believable. But it is 25 years and yes, you do now feel old. You probably still feel sad and melancholy. Time has a terrible way of playing tricks with your memory but the passing of Nirvana’s frontman still resonates as if it were yesterday. The past remains, undoubtedly, a foreign country but I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing. I was in laundrette in Bristol, England doing a weekend load of washing (this is what students did then). I was listening to the BBC on my five-year-old Sony radio walkman- remember those?- when the terrible, heart-stopping news came through on that grey, terrible slate grey April day.

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