Category: Nirvana

Flipper Drafts Novoselic For New Album
Fifteen years since its last studio album, influential punk outfit Flipper is up and running once more.
“I think that we’re 99% there, if not done,” drummer Steve DePace tells Billboard.com of a new, as-yet-untitled Flipper album. “We’ve got 10 songs, and we just did another round of mixing. The album sounds great — I think it’s some of our best work ever. That also is an indicator for more future songs to come. We know we can write songs with Krist now that sound just like Flipper.”
The “Krist” that DePace mentions is none other than former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic, who has been a Flipper member since 2006 — joining original members Bruce Loose (vocals), Ted Falconi (guitar), and DePace. After previous bassist Bruno DeSmartass gave notice in September 2006, Flipper needed a replacement in time to play an All Tomorrow’s Parties show in London in December, curated by Thurtston Moore.
“I chatted with Thurston and told him that I had this idea to contact Krist Novoselic,” DePace recalls. “Thurston called Krist, and he said, ‘Absolutely, I’d be honored’.”
With Novoselic on board, Flipper eventually got to work on a new album, with producer Jack Endino at the helm. “We started recording in August. We set up a makeshift studio at Krist Novoselic’s place up in Washington. Krist said to us, ‘Jack Endino is still a really good friend of mine. I can have him come down, we can set up a studio at my place, and record new songs’.”
DePace is enthused about new songs like “Be a Good Child,” “Night Falls Like Dirt Rocks,” “Triple Mass Murder Suicide,” which was inspired by the shootings at Virginia Tech University.
Despite singer Loose recuperating from recent back surgery, Flipper hopes to support the new release with live dates. “We’re going to go back into rehearsals in February, and hopefully into the spring and summer, we’re going to be out there touring.” Updates can be found on the group’s MySpace page.
Also on the horizon is a DVD of vintage Flipper performances, “Flipper Live: Target Video 1980-81,” due Feb. 19 via Music Video Distributors. There are also plans to reissue the band’s entire back catalog in 2008.

Nirvana’s ‘Unplugged’ Finally Heading To DVD
Nirvana’s Nov. 18, 1993, “MTV Unplugged” taping will make its DVD debut Nov. 20 via Universal Music Enterprises. “MTV Unplugged in New York” was released Nov. 1, 1994, on CD, the first Nirvana product to appear following Kurt Cobain’s suicide that April.
Like the CD, the DVD will include the songs “Something in the Way” and “Oh Me,” which did not appear on the original MTV broadcast. The DVD also sports four tracks from the band’s soundcheck and previously unreleased behind-the-scenes footage.
Nirvana’s “Unplugged” date is arguably the most famous in the long-running series, as the band eschewed most of its hits in favor of lesser-known album tracks and obscure covers (particularly, three Meat Puppets songs). The live version of “About a Girl” reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Modern Rock tally.
Here is the track list for “MTV Unplugged in New York”:
“About a Girl”
“Come As You Are”
“Jesus Doesn’t Want Me for a Sunbeam”
“The Man Who Sold the World”
“Pennyroyal Tea”
“Dumb”
“Polly”
“On a Plain”
“Something in the Way”
“Plateau”
“Oh Me”
“Lake of Fire”
“All Apologies”
“Where Did You Sleep Last Night”

Love plans to sell Cobain’s belongings
NEW YORK – Courtney Love, widow of Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain, says she plans to sell most of his belongings.
“I’m going to have a Christie’s auction,” Love, 42, tells AOL music Web site Spinner.com. “(My house) is like a mausoleum.”
Love and Cobain wed in 1992 and had a daughter, Frances Bean, that year. Cobain committed suicide in 1994.
“My daughter doesn’t need to inherit a giant … bag full of flannel … shirts,” says Love, former frontwoman of the rock band Hole. “A sweater, a guitar and the lyrics to `(Smells Like) Teen Spirit’ ó that’s what my daughter gets. And the rest of it we’ll just … sell.”
No date has been set for the auction, AOL publicist Kurt Patat told The Associated Press on Monday.
Love, whose upcoming album is titled, “Nobody’s Daughter,” says friends support the idea.
“Everyone’s been positive and behind me on it,” she says. “We’ll make a lot of money and give a bunch of it to charity.”
She’ll have a chance to move on from Cobain, too.
“I still wear his pajamas to bed. How am I ever going to go form another relationship in my lifetime wearing Kurt’s pajamas?”

Three rare tracks on new Nirvana compilation
NEW YORK (Billboard) – Three previously unreleased tracks will see the light of day on the Nirvana compilation, “Sliver: The Best of the Box,” which will arrive November 1.
In addition to “Spank Thru” from the famed 1985 “Fecal Matter” demo tape, the 1990 studio outtake “Sappy” and a pre-“Nevermind” rehearsal recording of “Come as You Are,” the Geffen Records release boasts 19 tracks drawn from the 2004 boxed set “With the Lights Out.”
Here is the track list for “Sliver: The Best of the Box”:
“Spank Thru” (previously unreleased, 1985 “Fecal Matter” demo)
“Heartbreaker” (live, 1987)
“Mrs. Butterworth” (undated rehearsal demo)
“Floyd the Barber” (live, 1988)
“Clean Up Before She Comes” (undated home demo)
“About a Girl” (undated home demo)
“Blandest” (studio recording, 1998)
“Ain’t It a Shame” (studio recording, 1989)
“Sappy” (previously unreleased)
“Opinion” (solo acoustic, 1990)
“Lithium” (solo acoustic, 1990)
“Sliver” (undated home demo)
“Smells Like Teen Spirit” (rehearsal recording, 1991)
“Come As You Are” (previously unreleased rehearsal recording, 1991)
“Old Age” (“Nevermind” outtake, 1991)
“Oh the Guilt” (split single w/ Jesus Lizard, 1992)
“Rape Me” (acoustic home demo, 1992)
“Rape Me” (studio recording, 1992)
“Heart Shaped Box” (studio recording, 1993)
“Do Re Mi” (home demo, 1994)
“You Know You’re Right” (home demo, 1994)
“All Apologies” (home demo, 1994)