Kurt Cobain’s guitar from Nirvana’s iconic MTV Unplugged performance sold at auction Saturday for a record $6 million. The previous record was $3.95 million for a Black Stratocaster owned by Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour.
Pre-auction bids on the 1959 Martin D-18E, purchased by the Nirvana singer at Los Angeles’ Voltage Guitars and modified for the left-handed Cobain, reached $1 million even bidding officially opened Saturday. The guitar received seven bids total, including the winning bid of $6,010,00, the Julien’s Auctions website stated.
The guitar also came with its original hard-shell...
Pre-auction bids on the 1959 Martin D-18E, purchased by the Nirvana singer at Los Angeles’ Voltage Guitars and modified for the left-handed Cobain, reached $1 million even bidding officially opened Saturday. The guitar received seven bids total, including the winning bid of $6,010,00, the Julien’s Auctions website stated.
The guitar also came with its original hard-shell...
- 6/20/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: Passion River Films has picked up worldwide digital rights to the desert rock documentary Desolation Center and is planning to launch it later this year.
The film, which has screened at a number of film festivals around the world including Cph: Dox, Indie Lisboa and Sheffield Doc Fest, tells the story of a series of gigs in Southern California that paved the way for corporate festivals such as Burning Man, Lollapalooza and Coachella.
Desolation Center, directed by Stuart Swezey, is the untold story of a series Reagan-era guerrilla desert happenings now that includes performances by bands including Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Meat Puppets and Einstürzende Neubauten. It tells the true story of how the risky, and at times even reckless, actions of a few outsiders can unintentionally lead to seismic cultural shifts. Swezey, the creator and principal organizer of these events, offers up never-before-seen archival video, live audio recordings, and...
The film, which has screened at a number of film festivals around the world including Cph: Dox, Indie Lisboa and Sheffield Doc Fest, tells the story of a series of gigs in Southern California that paved the way for corporate festivals such as Burning Man, Lollapalooza and Coachella.
Desolation Center, directed by Stuart Swezey, is the untold story of a series Reagan-era guerrilla desert happenings now that includes performances by bands including Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Meat Puppets and Einstürzende Neubauten. It tells the true story of how the risky, and at times even reckless, actions of a few outsiders can unintentionally lead to seismic cultural shifts. Swezey, the creator and principal organizer of these events, offers up never-before-seen archival video, live audio recordings, and...
- 2/13/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
“Angie, are you tough enuh-uff/To let it go?” asks Mary Timony over sugared electric guitar churn at the outset of Ex Hex’s latest, immortalizing a new rock’n’roll Angie with as much performative heartache and swagger as Jagger, maybe more. Ex Hex’s second album is about garage-rock thrust at its core, like prime Stones and their own debut Rips. Like that LP, it draws a through-line from the Shangri-Las to Blondie to Sleater-Kinney to, well, Ex-Hex.
This time, though, pop-metal production shine adds a new meta-textual layer,...
This time, though, pop-metal production shine adds a new meta-textual layer,...
- 3/20/2019
- by Will Hermes
- Rollingstone.com
Of all the Eighties bands that took hardcore punk as their launching pad, no one got further (or weirder) faster than guitar-twisting stoner gods the Meat Puppets. Even when the Arizona trio was recording for Black Flag’s record label and thrashing out one-minute songs at atomic speed, their music always had a glazed sense of amiably demented wonder. It’s a sound that grew deeper and druggier as they explored Sun Belt sprawl on their psychedelic 1984 masterwork II and the post-punk pastoralism of 1985’s insanely idyllic Up on the Sun.
- 3/14/2019
- by Jon Dolan
- Rollingstone.com
Preparations for Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged appearance in November 1993 were reportedly tense, but that’s not how easygoing Meat Puppets songwriter and frontman Curt Kirkwood remembers it. One of his fondest memories, in fact, is of joking with Kurt Cobain just before the now-legendary performance.
“We were walking down towards the playing area, and [I was] telling Kurt that I liked to eat the gum off the bottoms of tables when I was a little kid,” Kirkwood laughs, recalling the absurdity.
“I don’t know why we were talking about that, but...
“We were walking down towards the playing area, and [I was] telling Kurt that I liked to eat the gum off the bottoms of tables when I was a little kid,” Kirkwood laughs, recalling the absurdity.
“I don’t know why we were talking about that, but...
- 3/7/2019
- by Jim Beaugez
- Rollingstone.com
Rock doc distributor Monoduo Films has picked up the international rights to guerrilla desert doc Desolation Center.
You can watch the first trailer for the film, which tells the story of a series of gigs in southern California that paved the way for corporate festivals such as Burning Man, Lollapalooza and Coachella, above.
Berlin-based Monoduo Films, which is run by Ben Bassauer, has previously repped films including Milford Graves Full Mantis, which was co-directed by Neil Young, A Band Called Death and Lamb of God doc As The Palaces Burn. It has taken the worldwide rights ahead of the films U.S. premiere at the Slamdance Festival. The film will debut at the Treasure Mountain Inn Ballroom on 25 January.
Desolation Center is the untold story of a series Reagan-era guerrilla desert happenings now that includes performances by bands including Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Meat Puppets and Einstürzende Neubauten. It tells the...
You can watch the first trailer for the film, which tells the story of a series of gigs in southern California that paved the way for corporate festivals such as Burning Man, Lollapalooza and Coachella, above.
Berlin-based Monoduo Films, which is run by Ben Bassauer, has previously repped films including Milford Graves Full Mantis, which was co-directed by Neil Young, A Band Called Death and Lamb of God doc As The Palaces Burn. It has taken the worldwide rights ahead of the films U.S. premiere at the Slamdance Festival. The film will debut at the Treasure Mountain Inn Ballroom on 25 January.
Desolation Center is the untold story of a series Reagan-era guerrilla desert happenings now that includes performances by bands including Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Meat Puppets and Einstürzende Neubauten. It tells the...
- 1/15/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
The original lineup of the Meat Puppets – vocalist-guitarist Curt Kirkwood, bassist-vocalist Chris Kirkwood and drummer Derrick Bostrom – have recorded a new album, Dusty Notes, and set tour dates for a run of U.S. shows this spring. “Nine Pins,” the first track from the new LP, which is due out March 8th, is a country-rock rave-up with rattling acoustic guitar, an upbeat rhythm and Curt’s lyrics about the moon shining down on a little piece of ground. The group previously released another country-tinged number, “Warranty.” It’s the first...
- 1/11/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
The original lineup of alt-rock stalwarts the Meat Puppets unveiled a new song, “Warranty,” off the trio’s first new album in 24 years, Dusty Notes, out March 8th via Megaforce.
“Warranty” finds the Meat Puppets filtering a quintessential Western stomp through a psychedelic haze of mesmerizing guitar lines. The fog temporarily breaks when the track hits the chorus, where Curt Kirkwood sings with sun-soaked harmonies, “What you see is what I am/ Take a look, the invisible man/ Satisfaction cannot be guaranteed/ When you don’t know just what you see.
“Warranty” finds the Meat Puppets filtering a quintessential Western stomp through a psychedelic haze of mesmerizing guitar lines. The fog temporarily breaks when the track hits the chorus, where Curt Kirkwood sings with sun-soaked harmonies, “What you see is what I am/ Take a look, the invisible man/ Satisfaction cannot be guaranteed/ When you don’t know just what you see.
- 12/11/2018
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Members of R.E.M., Meat Puppets, She & Him join the rest of Big Star to remember the late Chilton.
By James Montgomery
Alex Chilton
Photo: Frank Mullen/ Wireimage
Austin, Texas — It was unseasonably cold deep in the heart of Texas on Saturday night, as winds howled and low-hanging clouds swallowed up the moon. It was the kind of weather that seems to lend itself to mourning.
But inside venerable Austin blues bar Antone's, mourning wasn't on the menu (there were, however, tacos). Instead, friends, colleagues and disciples of the late Alex Chilton, who died earlier this week of an apparent heart attack, had gathered to pay tribute to the man and his music. And while there were a few tears shed, this was a night very much dedicated to celebration.
Originally scheduled as a South by Southwest closing concert by Chilton's influential power-pop band Big Star, the Antone's gig instead became a memorial show.
By James Montgomery
Alex Chilton
Photo: Frank Mullen/ Wireimage
Austin, Texas — It was unseasonably cold deep in the heart of Texas on Saturday night, as winds howled and low-hanging clouds swallowed up the moon. It was the kind of weather that seems to lend itself to mourning.
But inside venerable Austin blues bar Antone's, mourning wasn't on the menu (there were, however, tacos). Instead, friends, colleagues and disciples of the late Alex Chilton, who died earlier this week of an apparent heart attack, had gathered to pay tribute to the man and his music. And while there were a few tears shed, this was a night very much dedicated to celebration.
Originally scheduled as a South by Southwest closing concert by Chilton's influential power-pop band Big Star, the Antone's gig instead became a memorial show.
- 3/21/2010
- MTV Music News
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