WHAT NEVERMIND MEANS NOW!
Check out SPIN MAGAZINE'S new issue (on sale at newsstands July 26) as they take a look back at the album changed everything. Issue highlights include the following. Check HERE to read the inside of rare Kurt Cobain “Nevermind” photo.
• Eddie Vedder, Dave Grohl, R.E.M.'s Peter Buck, Jeff Tweedy, Henry Rollins, Wayne Coyne, Nirvana manager Danny Goldberg, Flea, and others who witnessed first-hand Nirvana's rise reflect on the heady days of grunge and the album's lasting impact.
• Current artists like Girl Talk's Gregg Gillis, the Black Keys, Titus Andronicus' Amy Klein, Of Montreal's Kevin Barnes, Mark Ronson, Thursday's Geoff Rickley, Against Me!'s Tom Gabel, and more open up about how the album impacted their youth — and shaped their future approach to music.
• SPIN has tapped artists like EMA, Meat Puppets, Titus Andronicus, the Vaselines, Surfer Blood, and more to cover one track each from Nevermind. In the issue, the artists talk about the process of tackling Nirvana's classics. The album will be available for free download on SPIN's Facebook page on July 19.
• Journalist and author Latoya Peterson goes in-depth to examine why angst has disappeared from youth culture in a thought-provoking essay titled “Teen Esprit Revisited.” What made skepticism, political awareness, and soul-searching so uncool?
• SPIN's Brandon Soderberg on how Kurt Cobain's music, lyrics, and rebellious nature made him a grungy thug lifer within hip-hop culture.
• Nirvana inadvertently helped take the flannel and torn jeans look from the thrift store to the runway. That dalliance with haute couture may have seemed ridiculous at the time, but grunge's come-as-you-are look left a permanent mark on the fashion world.