Nirvana

Starbucks is hurting. You can blame it on the economy or you can blame it on the increaing competition from Dunkin Donuts and McDonald's, but Starbucks is going by the way of other Seattle giants like Microsoft and Grunge Music in that it's not that original anymore and their competitors have figured out a better way to do the same thing and commerical the idea to death. Ad Age reported today that Starbucks is beginning to test market smoothie drinks and a "cold-ice beverage" (whatever that... Read Full Story

On last week’s All Things Considered on NPR, the program caught up with Spencer Elden (now 17), the boy in the iconic album cover of Nirvana’s Nevermind. Apparently now he’s just a “straight up” California kid, who hates high school and plays Rock Band. The only difference between him and a typical teenager is that he owns a platinum record and his penis has been seen by millions of people. Check out the interesting interview HERE. Read Full Story

     MUSIC NEWS-  Grunge rocker KURT COBAIN "detested" GUNS N ROSES frontman Axl Rose, according to reports in a new music biz book.  Former record executive Danny Goldberg writes in his upcoming memoir, Bumping Into Geniuses, that the Nirvana singer Cobain and Rose were engaged in a bitter feud all through their careers.  Goldberg claims promoters were desperate to launch a tour featuring Nirvana, Metallica and Guns N’ Roses during the height of their popularity in the early 1990s... Read Full Story

     MUSIC NEWS-  Grunge rocker KURT COBAIN "detested" GUNS N ROSES frontman Axl Rose, according to reports in a new music biz book.  Former record executive Danny Goldberg writes in his upcoming memoir, Bumping Into Geniuses, that the Nirvana singer Cobain and Rose were engaged in a bitter feud all through their careers.  Goldberg claims promoters were desperate to launch a tour featuring Nirvana, Metallica and Guns N’ Roses during the height of their popularity in the early 1990s... Read Full Story

There are few people in America who haven’t seen Spencer Elden’s private parts. It’s just one of those things that, if you listen to music and are in the slightest way interested in popular culture, you’re familiar with. When Spencer was a baby, his father tossed him in a pool and a friend of his – contracted to design the Nirvana cover – snapped his picture. Three months later Spencer, in all his glory, was plastered across a 9-foot by 9-foot billboard on the world-famous Sunset Blvd. Two... Read Full Story