Details continue to premiere about the upcoming 20th anniversary edition of Nirvana's In Utero. Similar to Nevermind, which was recently re-issued, there will be multiple packages and box sets available, including an uption with over 70 remastered, rare, and unreleased songs.
The re-issue will release primarily as a double CD, triple vinyl set on Sept. 24, complemented by a separate DVD release of Nirvana's "Live and Loud" at Pier 48 on Dec. 13, 1993 in Seattle.
It’s easy to read a posthumous reissue as a mining of a band’s demos and outtakes. Nirvana saw the deluxe treatment of Nevermind a few years back and now, celebrating 20 years since its release, they get the same treatment on In Utero. For a band that only released three proper full-lengths, yet received accolades beyond what I care to … Read more
Some anniversary reissues are like tapas. Small, manageable servings of exactly what you want and you wind up leaving utterly satisfied. Others are like going to Country Buffet. More food than you could ever need or want and you end up gorging on shit you never asked for in the first place and when you finish you ask yourself "Why … Read more
At the risk of sounding like a filthy hippie droning on about the sixties and how you had to be there to understand it, the same could pretty much be said for the early nineties. The eighties were discovered to be an insanely vacuous era that by the turn of the decade had started to smell like anything but teen … Read more
It's strange that, while numerous memories have vanished from my mind over the years, I can still remember where I was when I learned of the death of Kurt Cobain: in a school bus, rounding the loop outside an elementary school in south-central Pennsylvania. Probably the strangest thing about remembering … Read more
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