“Don’t tell me how to make a record. I was in Nirvana. I was in the greatest rock and roll band of the ’90s. We changed the course of rock music. … Give me a carton of Marlboros. Fuck you, man, I was in Nirvana, you asshole. I’m on RCA, dammit. Don’t you know who I am? I’m a millionaire.”
–Dave Grohl of Nirvana (and Foo Fighters, and Queens of the Stone Age, and Them Crooked Vultures, and Mondo Generator, and Sound City Players, and Backbeat Band, and Scream).
Archive for Dave Grohl
Happy Birthday, Dave Grohl!
Posted in Comedy with tags Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters, Mondo Generator, Nirvana, Queens of the Stone Age, Scream, Sound City Players, Them Crooked Vultures on 01/14/2026 by Kurt Orzeck10 Videos of Musicians Falling Offstage Mid-Performance: Dave Grohl, Lady Gaga, Olivia Rodrigo, Axl Rose, Pink, Demi Lovato
Posted in Lists, Videos with tags Axl Rose, Dave Grohl, Demi Lovato, Gene Simmons, Lady Gaga, Olivia Rodrigo, Pink, Vince Neil on 01/09/2026 by Kurt OrzeckDoppelgängers: Dave Grohl and Reggie Watts
Posted in Doppelgängers, Features with tags Dave Grohl, Reggie Watts on 11/29/2025 by Kurt Orzeck
Long-lost cousins, maybe?
Labyrinth: The History Of Nirvana
Posted in Fun And Games with tags Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, Kurt Cobain, Nirvana on 02/24/2025 by Kurt Orzeck
If you enjoyed the Jesus Lizard labyrinth we brought you a few light years ago, crack yer knuckles and get to work on this new puzzle revolving around their fallen friends, Nirvana.
Continue readingNirvana’s ‘In Utero’: The Heart-Shaped Album That Married Mainstream and Indie Rock
Posted in Essays with tags Dave Grohl, Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, Steve Albini on 11/09/2023 by Kurt Orzeck
With Nirvana’s In Utero celebrating its 30-year anniversary, check out my argument — itself three decades in the making — on why the band’s best record changed rock music forever. Read the treatise, accompanied by Anton Corbijn photos, on FLOOD.
The Breeders’ ‘Last Splash’ (30th Anniversary Edition): Two Cent Review
Posted in Interviews with tags Breeders, Dave Grohl, Frank Black, Kim Deal, Pixies on 09/25/2023 by Kurt Orzeck
Read my FLOOD review of the latest reissue of the Breeders’ Last Splash, in which the flood of anniversary reissue albums is also discussed.
Revising History: Mike Watt On John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Sun Ra, More
Posted in Features, Revising History with tags Albert Ayler, Anna Waronker, Banyan, Bob Lee, Carla Bozulich, Cibo Matto, Ciccone Youth, Cris Kirkwood, Curt Kirkwood, Dave Grohl, Dos, Dougie Bowne, Eddie Vedder, Evan Dando, Firehose, Floored by Four, Foo Fighters, Hellride, Hellride East, Hovercraft, Iggy Pop, J Mascis, J Mascis and the Fog, John Coltrane, Krist Novoselic, Les McCann, Mike Watt, Miles Davis, Minutemen, Missingmen, Nels Cline, Nirvana, Petra Haden, Porno for Pyros, Rachel Haden, Roland Kirk, Sun Ra, the Stooges, the Unknown Instructors, Thelonious Monk, Wilco, Yuka Honda on 10/08/2010 by Kurt Orzeck
Now this is quite the honor: Mike Watt, one of the most respected musicians ever to lurk in the underground, has anted up – all jazz-style – for the second installment in the Bad Penny’s brand-new series, Revising History. Continue reading
Cave In: ‘The Longer We’re Around, The More People Don’t Like Us’
Posted in Interviews with tags Apples in Stereo, Cave In, Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters, Giant's Chair, Piebald, Sparta, Stephen Brodsky, the Icarus Line, the Ramones, the Vines on 01/07/2010 by Kurt Orzeck
With Cave In’s new EP, Planets of Old, seeing a proper release – with a bonus DVD – on January 26, here’s a vintage interview with the guys when they had Antenna on the brain. Continue reading
David Bowie Faces Reality
Posted in Interviews with tags Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, Dave Grohl, David Bowie, George Harrison, Iggy Pop, Jonathan Richman, Lou Reed, Phil Spector, Ronnie Spector, the Beatles, the Modern Lovers on 01/05/2010 by Kurt Orzeck
“It’s difficult to foresee anything other than a huge calamity in the industry itself,” David Bowie predicted to me in 2003. “And, as I’ve believed for a long time now, live shows will come to dominate in a new kind of way again.” Continue reading
David Bowie Transcript, 7.9.03: ‘I Am The Man Who Found Velvet Underground!’
Posted in Interview Transcripts, Interviews with tags Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, Bruce Springsteen, Dandy Warhols, Dave Grohl, David Bowie, George Harrison, Iggy Pop, John Mellencamp, Jonathan Richman, Kings of Leon, Lou Reed, Neil Young, Phil Spector, Radiohead, Robert Fripp, Ronnie Spector, Spooky Ghost, the Beatles, the Incredible String Band, the Modern Lovers, the Raveonettes, the Velvet Underground, White Stripes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs on 01/05/2010 by Kurt OrzeckDavid Bowie gets the White Stripes, the Raveonettes and the Dandy Warhols – but not Yeah Yeah Yeahs. And were it not for him, he says, Lou Reed and John Cale’s immortal band might never have made it. Continue reading
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