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While Nirvana‘s  Unplugged concert from November 18, 1993 is often believed to be the band’s final show, the legendary group played another month of American concert dates, and performed in Europe in February the following year. Nirvana’s last concert actually took place on March 1st, 1994 in Munich, Germany, at Terminal Einz, an airplane hanger that fit 3,050 people. The band had to deal with technical issues, restarting “Come as You Are” over again when the power went out, and Cobain was experiencing severe vocal issues. While cameras filmed the first few songs, but up until now...

For a long time she had loved karaoke. Honestly, she had loved it too much. The love was frantic but also complex, a complexity born of her desire to expose herself and be known, and her concomitant dread of exposing herself and being known. Of all the forms this conflict had ever taken in her life, karaoke was the purest.

In February 2020, singer-songwriter Vanessa Peters was in Italy preparing for a European tour when the country went on a national lockdown. The tour was canceled and the recording sessions that had been scheduled in Texas after the tour were scrapped. Working instead in a farmhouse in Castiglion Fiorentino in Italy for 10 days, Peters and her Italian bandmates worked to finish some new songs for her upcoming album Modern Age. Released Feb. 25, the video for the first of those songs, “Crazymaker,” was shot in Lucca, Italy. The long-awaited collaboration album from Fort Worth psych-rock l...

Ever heard a Tool or Nirvana song played on a dulcimer? Inventive musicians are always coming up with ways to perform creative cover versions of their favorite songs; Anthony "Bones" Reid is no exception. The Pennsylvania-based performer, who records under the moniker Horns of Pan, has plied YouTube with some well-known rock and metal songs performed on the yangqin, a Chinese hammered dulcimer. Unsurprisingly, they sound exquisitely exotic. Watch a handful of them down toward the bottom of this post. Reid's anything if not prolific. In the last couple of years, the musician has filmed himsel...

Papa Roach’s hit “Last Resort” has gotten an update thanks to TikToker  Jeris Johnson. The band has teamed up with the Internet star to release a new remix of the 2000 track. Jeris Johnson has nothing but nice things to say about the original song, calling it “one of the most impactful and loved songs from an entire generation of music.” He decided to remix it and share it on TikTok… which caught the band’s attention, leading to this new “Reloaded” version of “Last Resort.” "It was amazing to hear that Jeris connected with the track the same way people all over the wor...