Kathleen Hanna on the Creation of Smells Like Teen Spirit

Kathleen Hanna tells a really funny story of spray painting an anti-abortion clinic with Kurt Cobain. Hanna got drunk during the course of events that night and spray painted "Kurt Smells Like Teen Spirit." Hanna was commenting of Cobain's girlfriend Tobi Vail, also Hanna's Bikini Kill bandmate, wearing the deodorant Teen Spirit.

Another interesting side note: Bikini Kill were big fans of the L.A. all girl band the Pandoras. Bikini Kill was very sadden about the death of Pandoras front woman Paula Pierce. Here is what Vail wrote about Pierce in a fanzine.

Hanna praised the Pandoras on her blog.

"Has anyone noticed that the title ‘Stop Pretending‘ was already used by perhaps the best all girl garage group of all time, The Pandora’s ??? So in addition to everything else, dude accidentally ripped off both a song and album title by an amazing all girl band. I mean it’s almost like a crazy psychedelic feminist musical nightmare."

Update: Kathleen Hanna professes her love of the Pandoras on Twitter.

Nirvana with J Mascis - School

This is from a secret gig Nirvana did after the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame performance.

Nirvana's Hysterical Top of the Pops Performance

People forget how funny Nirvana Nirvana were. The band were invited on Britain's Top of the Pops. TOTP had a weird rule rule of only allowing vocals live. Kurt Cobain had the idea for the bad to make it obvious that the band wasn't playing their instruments. To final touch was Cobain doing an over-dramatic Morrissey impression. The producers cut the performance short when the band started smashing their instuments but the music was still playing.

Quote of the Day: Kurt Cobain Edition

"At this point, I have a request for our fans. If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of a different color, or women, please do this favor for us - leave us the fuck alone! Don't come to our shows and don't buy our records."

Kurt Cobain

Making of Nirvana's Nevermind

Butch Vig talks about producing the Nirvana album Nevermind.

Hip to Be Square: Jon Huntsman

Apparently, Jon Huntsman doesn't know whether he is running for President of the United States or coolest scenester at the Hub. Huntsman made a Kurt Cobain reference at the CNN/Tea Party debate that went over the heads of the crowd. (The tea partiers must be Pearl Jam fans.) With the help of fellow hipster Jeb Bush Jr., Huntman is unveiling GenH. No word on if Huntsman will reference the the Douglas Coupland book "Generation X."

Huntsman’s campaign today announced the GenH program has 139 campus chapters in 42 states and is “the most broad-based youth program in the Republican field.”

Bush is the chairman of GenH. As far as I can tell Huntsman's idea of appealing to young voters is a logo with a red H.



The Huntsman campaign has released a list of college campuses they wish to set up big red H chapters. I can't find what the platform Huntsman is going to sell to young voters. It is a good idea for Huntsman to go after young voters. I am just not sure how Huntsman proposes to perform this task. My feeling is the Huntsman campaign is asking themselves the same question.

WTF: Billy Ray Cyrus & Kurt Cobain Were Friends?

Holy Achy Breaky Heart: Billy Ray Cyrus talks to GQ about his friendship with Kurt Cobain. To quote Lloyd Bridges' famous line from Airplane!, "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue."

"I stepped back. I was suppose to go out and do another world tour. I said no. I canceled my tour. Kurt Cobain had just died, and that really had an impact on me. He was one of those guys that became a friend to me that I never expected. We met at a venue one night, some big coliseum somewhere - his rig was pulling out and mine was pulling in - and I was standing in the shadows, 1 a.m. in the morning, and he's 'Hey man, congratulations - you pissed the whole world off.' We shook hands, and I said, 'Thanks man... I love what you do.'" After that, Cobain congratulated him at an awards ceremony when most of his peers did not. "We crossed paths a couple more times," says Cyrus, "and then I was in St. Louis..."

Cyrus went further in explaining his connection to Cobain to a skeptical Chris Heath. Cyrus says they both recently became fathers of baby girls.

"That's what we talked about, that we each had a little girl," Cyrus said. The babies were Miley Cyrus and Frances Bean Cobain.