Bleach

Life after Blue

"It did not sound the way you expected. It was massive, sprawling, unbelievably complex"

Krist Novoselic on the impact and aftershock of Nevermind – and Nirvana's unexpected admiration for the Bad City Rollers

From the Smart Studio in Wisconsin – via $2 pitchers of beer at the Friendly Tavern – to Los Angeles’ legendary Sound City, Butch Vig guides us through the Nevermind recording sessions. Stand by for food fights with L7, encounters with Billy Corgan and Europe and sojourns at the “Cokewood Apartments”

Thirty years after Nevermind transformed Nirvana from adolescent punks to global superstars, Dave Grohl tells us about the album's making, freezing cold rehearsal spaces, road trips with Kurt Cobain, and "Wilson Philips, Mariah Carey and fucking Bon Jovi"

By way of tribute to Andrew Weatherall, whose death was confirmed earlier today, I thought I’d post my interview with him for our Audience...

The psych-garage Australians introduce us to their world

The full countdown revealed!

Glorious avant experiments and krautrock monoliths, with a pop heart

Erykah Badu-curated box collects seven albums 
from the Afrobeat chieftain