Katie sent in this; "The US VH-1's Rock Show will be airing a 'Seattle Scene Band' episode on April 21st. VH-1 is doing a poll on the best band to come out of Seattle ... Nirvana is currently in fourth place (under Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, and Stone Temple Pilots)." If you want to change that, you can vote in the poll here. Also thanks to Jim for the link.

"Near the end of last year, The british Channel 4 ran a program called 'the music of the millennium' where the public got to vote for their favorite musical acts of the millennium. Nirvana were in pretty much every award line up; SLTS was voted the 6th greatest song of all time. 'Nevermind' was voted the 5th greatest album of all time. Kurt was voted the 10th greatest male vocalist of all time. Nirvana were voted the 6th greatest band of all time. Kurt was voted the 10th greatest song writer of all time, and finally Kurt was voted the 12th most influential musician of all time." Thanks to Dave 'The Animal' Black for this story.

I haven't updated the picture gallery in ages, so I thought now it was about time to do something about that. Thus, I have just added 100 new Nirvana-related pictures, many of which are somewhat rare. These are mostly pictures I've found around the net, and some were e-mailed to me. Unfortunately I don't have all the names of the people who put these on the net, so just let me know if something should be changed. For now you can view the 100 new pictures here. Thanks to everyone who have contributed with pics, including all the people I didn't get permission from ;)

"There will be an exhibit of Anton Corbijn, (who directed Nirvana's Heart-Shaped Box video) at the Groninger Museum in Holland from now until the 25th of June. The Dutch photographer worked with many famous artists, such as U2, The Rollin' Stones, David Bowie and Nirvana. Bono from U2 opened the exhibit last saturday and there was a huge party. (Bono getting more attention than Anton). This news paper article came with an almost full-page picture of Kurt." Thanks to Yorick for the story. This exhibit was also displayed in Denmark in November of 1997 and has been displayed a few other places in the world as well. More info.

Not a very interesting story but VH1's Rock Show played Nirvana's "Sliver" video last night. Thanks to Steve and Tony for this.

Some interesting Nirvana recordings turned up recently. First, an almost complete recording of the show Nirvana did in Slovenia on February 27 1994 has turned up. The recording is about 60 minutes long and is lacking the first two tracks, and the last two. Luckily the first two tracks surfaced in a Croatian TV special a while ago. The show is very good, including a lot of comments from Krist with his Croatian accent, and a brief cover of a song by a Croatian band called Đavoli (The Devils). I will have some soundclips up of this show shortly. Also surfacing not too long ago was the semi-complete encore of the show Nirvana did in Argentina on October 30 1992. Most of the show came out on a commercial bootleg a long time ago, but it was missing the last two tracks - "All Apologies" and "Endless, Nameless". Some radio, in Spain I believe, aired 'All Apologies' and most of 'Endless, Nameless' but the quality is not that good. I will also get soundclips of these tracks up soon.

The terrific actress Sarah Michelle Gellar, best known as "Buffy - The Vampire Slayer" turned 23 today. Happy birthday, Sarah! If you want more info on Miss Gellar, check out this great website or the official Buffy Slayer website.

Here is a story that I must say surprised me quite a bit; "HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - Hard rockers Metallica have become the first recording artists to file a copyright infringement suit against the popular Internet file-sharing program Napster. Three major universities were named in the suit as well. The suit was brought Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles by Metallica, their music publishing company Creeping Death Music and E/M Ventures (their joint venture with Elektra Records, the band's label). The complaint accuses Napster, the University of Southern California, Yale University and Indiana University of copyright infringement, unlawful use of a digital audio interface device and violations of the Racketeering Influenced & Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). One reason Metallica is the first recording act to file suit against Napster is that the group is one of relatively few that owns its own master tapes as well as its own music publishing. Metallica's attorney, Howard King, told Daily Variety that the RICO act was invoked because Napster's file-sharing program involves ongoing multiple violations with multiple conspirators. King said the three universities cited in the suit were those that -- unlike nearly 200 other schools -- had not banned use of the Napster software. (Indiana previously banned Napster's use because it was taking up so much of the campus computer network's bandwidth, but once that problem was resolved, reinstated access to the program.) 'It takes more than Napster,' King said. 'How these universities allow their bandwidth to be used is firmly within their control.' When contacted by Daily Variety, Napster's attorneys said they hadn't seen a copy of the suit and therefore could not comment." Story courtesy of Variety and Altavista. Thanks to Reidar for the link. AllStar also put up an interesting story about the lawsuit here.

Andrew Amirault's website "The murder of Kurt Cobain" was updated again, providing a little info on the failed protest in New York in early April. Some selected hilarious quotes; " ... Worldwide Cobain Case/MTV Protest a huge success ... " - "Some highlights -- There were 11 of us at its peak, with one supporter coming from Ohio!" Wow! why didn't you find a larger city to protest in? I mean, eleven people with signs saying 'MTV Sucks' should require a much larger city than New York. And there was even one from Ohio. If you're lucky you can still catch a picture of Hanson on the main page of Andrew's site. (screenshot; above, right).

"On April 9, MTV Germany played the complete version of 'Lithium' from the MTV Video Music Awards 1992, including the 'Rape Me' into. It was during the show MTV Sushi, which I only got to watch the last twenty minutes of. The host was wearing a Nirvana In Utero t-shirt, and they played 'Lithium,' the 'Heart-Shaped Box' video, 'The Man Who Sold The World' from MTV Unplugged and they showed the band receiving the MTV Video Music Awards in 1992 and 1993." This story was courtesy of Reidar. Also thanks to Chris for sharing the story.

"I wanted to report a piece of Nirvana news. One of the stations that I listen to in Philadelphia, 93.3 WMMR, played a public service announcement last Saturday. The announcement started off by saying how six years ago a generation lost a voice when Kurt Cobain was found dead at his home. In the background were bits of Come as You Are and In Bloom. Then the announcement gave a suicide hotline number and finished by saying that WMMR doesn't want to lose any of its listeners. I heard them play the announcement a couple times on Saturday. Just wanted to let you know." Thanks to Harris for this one.

"In the March 2000 edition of the UK Guitarist magazine they did a '101 Essentional Guitar Albums countdown and guide'. Nirvana's Nevermind came in at number 3 only beaten by Van Halen and the legend that is Jimi Hendrix. The article is a 15 page long special." - "Also in the same mag it says that Noel Gallagher out of Oasis once said that he wanted his music to sound like 'Nevermind The Bollocks' and 'Nevermind'. Also worth mentioning is that the new issue of Guitarist Magazine {this months} features a huge background story on Nirvana and grunge in general and tells you how to 'Write Grunge Cobain style'." The Nirvana part of the article from the March edition of the UK Guitarist magazine is available here. Thanks to Craig for this information.

I'm sure a lot of people have wondered why MTV have never aired Nirvana's complete Unplugged performance - including the songs "Something in the way" and "Oh Me" - available on the CD release of the show. Well to clear this up a bit I decided to ask Alex, the producer of the show, what the reason for this was; "The songs were originally cut due to time constraints. on a lot of unplugged's, we tape extra songs to give the artists and myself some options in case something didn't come out right. in this case, all the performances were solid, so kurt and i made the decision on what we thought the best show would be. i knew all the meat puppet songs couldn't make it, at the time 2 seemed like plenty. kurt decided which two should stay. as for 'something in the way', i think it was my call to leave that one out in favor of one of the other songs...i can't quite remember which. as silly as it sounds, sometimes the length of a song plays into it...we are locked into time constraints due to commercial breaks and stuff. as for airing those songs, i always hoped we'd do a nirvana unplugged home video or dvd where we could include all the additional footage. to add those 2 songs to the show would mean we'd need to drop two songs, and i'd rather live with one version of the show on air. off air however (cd/home video/dvd) i would love to see all the footage released, including some of that great making of footage used in the 'bare witness' special. that's more up to the label and management as to if or when a home video would be made available. another option is to see if we could stream those two songs at mtv.com the next time we air the show." Thanks a bunch to Alex for this info.

Just a bit of info on the latest issue of Kerrang! magazine that features a special on Kurt Cobain; "The Kerrang issue dated April 8th 2000, 6 years after Kurt's death, was promised to be a tribute issue. This was not the case as it turned out to be a diary of events from March 25th '94 to April 11th. The article makes up less than 3 pages of writing spread over 6 pages thanks to photos and an advert for [the] latest Marilyn Manson video. The Pantera and One Minute Silence interviews had as many words. It is helpful to have a timeline of events surrounding the death of Kurt and it did contain tidbits of facts that I didn't know such as Courtney took fans into the annex room the same day he was found. However apart from this there is very little to warrant buying this and it is certainly not a collectors issue in the slightest. Another point worth making is that the last paragraph states we should dismiss murder theorys but under April 4th they mention that Kurt told Brad Barnett that he 'feared for his life', from the book 'Who Killed Kurt Cobain'? Next time around Kerrang should try printing something with more substance to it." This review was submitted by Andy. Dean Coupland also sent in a review of the special; "I bought it straight away but was a little dissapointed. It had small columns of news on each day from when Kurt overdosed in Rome to the day his body was found. It also listed several websites which had theories on how Kurt died. It also had some drawings of Kurt by several readers with little speeches by each artist. Kerrang also did a poll of readers' fave nirvana songs and here are the results: 1) Smells like teen spirit, 2) Heart-Shaped Box, 3) Aneurysm, 4) Lithium, 5) Territorial pissings, 6) Rape me, 7) Negative creep, 8) Sliver, 9) About a girl and 10) Come as you are." Thanks to Dean for that information.

The people over at musictoday.com did a funny April Fool's joke, putting up a story about a supposed re-union of Nirvana; "Shocking most of the world, the remaining members of Nirvana—Krist Novoselic, Dave Grohl, and Pat Smear—have announced that they will reform for a short stadium tour in July and August. Most surprising is who they have tapped to take leader Kurt Cobain's place on guitar and lead vocals—none other than his widow, Courtney Love." An interesting theory, but of course: a joke :) Thanks to Jamie and a couple of others for the link. Read the full story.

Ok, let's look back on some of the Nirvana specials that aired last night in honour of the 6-year anniversary of Kurt's death. I hope that it didn't cause too many problems that the site was officially closed yesterday. Gave you extra time to watch TV I suppose :) First to the "Nirvana: The Story so far" show that aired on MTV Germany. This one sucked. First of all the damn program started about 5 minutes prior to its announced time. The show was basically a 20-min collage of incomplete Nirvana videos, 5-second clips of interviews and clips from the MTV Awards from 1992. Not only were the music videos incomplete, but some were even edited, ie. the Heart-Shaped Box video was missing the guitar solo near the end. It was truly a very terrible show, unless you've never seen a Nirvana music video before. After that they aired the Unplugged. But to make matters even worse, the fools started airing it at 10:22 PM - 8 minutes prior to the announced time! Eight minutes! You really got the sense that the producers were thinking "Let's get this Cobain thing over with, so we can get back to playing videos with those cute Hanson brothers."

More positive was the night on MTV Europe which featured the excellent "Bare Witness" special, documenting Nirvana's unplugged show. The program featured fresh interviews with the people involved with Unplugged, as well as rare backstage footage and such. A very good special that premiered on the US MTV last year. MTV Europe also aired the Unplugged. I didn't get to watch the Nirvana night on TMF but here is a comment about it from Sebastiaan; "They actually showed some 'new' stuff -- they broadcasted that whole interview where kurt has his jacket over his head (as in live, tonight, sold out .. you know the one where they talk about Extreme and stuff) blended together with clips from LTSO. After that they showed some clips of ppl covering nirvana (weird al and that elvis guy). Next on was nirvana unplugged and after that was the top ten nirvana videos of all time... which was kinda cool though the woman who presented it made some big mistakes, such as saying Dave drummed on Bleach and that In bloom was the first single from Nevermind..." The Top 10 was:

Thanks to Sebastiaan for this. Oli Smith sent in a review of the Nirvana night at M2; "I watched the M2, special. It was pretty good, basically it started of showing the 'Bare witness' program, which was amazing loads of stuff I hadn't seen before. Best part when Kurt went into the crowd and hugged some younger audience members. Then they showed the inevitable unplugged show (about time they did a whole live show I think) then straight afterwards they played three videos by Hole; Celebrity skin, violet and gold dust women, which was a little rare. Then the programmers forgot what they were doing and started playing R'n'B and rap , for 15 minutes then cut into it, by playing a videography which I was pretty excited about, but they only played (complete) come as you are, heart shaped box, lithium, teen spirit, then they did man who sold the world which they had previously shown on the unplugged show. and that was basically it. Conclusion: bare witness=great, unplugged=timeless, hole videos=great, a lot of junk videos, then 5 NIRVANA videos(videography) bit of a let down. Still great show." Thanks to Oli for that! Lewis Smith also sent in a bit of info about the special, adding that "M2's Unplugged had like a 10 minute fault the tape just stopped on Polly and it was looped. Otherwise great."

The British Radio One also had a little tribute to Cobain, as they played a Top 10 of Nirvana songs as voted by the listeners. The Top 10 was as follows:

Thanks to Robert and Charlie for this info. The show aired April 5 at 12 AM.

Henrique submitted this info; "Well, yesterday, MTV Brazil showed a 3 hr Nirvana Special with cool interviews and some live footage, including footage from the Săo Paulo show with 'Drain You', and 3 clips from 'In Bloom'. Well, the show from Sao Paulo seemed to have been shot from the audience and it was from the right of the stage, at least they shot 'Drain You' with this camera."

Chris sent this one in; "For those of you in Australia, Rage, on Channel 2 (ABC TV) nationwide, are playing all the Nirvana video clips this Saturday Night (April 8th ) starting at 11.40 PM. For more info regarding what exactly you can see in the special, check this site." Thanks to Chris McCubbin for this news.

Just to remind you of some of the Nirvana specials airing tonight, here are the times. First, the British VH-1 will air an "Egos and Icons" special about Nirvana at 9:00 PM, UK (10 PM, CET). MTV UK will air Nirvana's unplugged at 1:00 AM, UK (2 AM, CET). MTV Europe will air Nirvana's unplugged at 10 PM CET, followed by their "Bare Witness" special at 11 PM, CET. The German MTV will air a special called "Nirvana: The Story So Far" at 10 PM, CET, followed by Nirvana's Unplugged at 10:30 PM, CET. More info here. The Dutch TMF will air a few Nirvana specials, beginning at 8 PM, CET. MTV in the US will air Nirvana's unplugged at 12:00 AM, 8:30 AM and 9:00 AM today, all Central Time. Today, MTV2 (M2) in Europe is having a Nirvana day, and will air a 'Kurt Cobain remembered special', Nirvana's MTV Unplugged show and a 30min show called 'Nirvana - A video history'. I believe this Nirvana night begins at 11 PM, CET today. I don't believe the European VH1 nor the US VH1 are airing any Nirvana specials tonight. Also airing today should be the documentary "Kurt and Courtney" on City Tv, out of Toronto. Thanks to Allan for this info.

"German MTV will air a special called 'Nirvana: The Story So Far' on Wednesday [April 5] at 10 PM CET. At 10:30 PM they'll air Unplugged again." Thanks a lot to Reidar for e-mailing me this information.

"I've just got a wee bit of info on a Kurt Cobain tribute concert. The concert will be at the Powerstation in Auckland, New Zealand on Friday April 14. Tickets will cost $13.00 NZD. It's an all ages gig and doors open at 8 pm, there will be 4 bands performing" Thanks to Vimal for this story.

"Hey, I just wanted to let you know that MTV [in the US] will be airing Nirvana's MTV unplugged show again on MTV late April 4th, and again on the morning of the 5th. MTV will also be showing a half hour opening of a show that is called 'Bare Witness' which accounts of people who attended the unplugged show." Thanks to 'Curmdgyn' for this info. Jeff sent in the exact air dates: "On the following dates MTV will be playing Nirvana MTV Unplugged: Tue 4 @ 11:30 PM, Wed 5 @ 12:00 AM, Wed 5 @ 8:30 AM and Wed 5 @ 9:00 AM." All these are Central Time.

"The English TV channel, Channel 4, is airing a comedy Cartoon series in which Kurt Cobain, Biggie Smalls, Freddie Mercury, Marc Bolan and John Denver are in a house trapped between heaven and hell. Kurt's the 'miserable depressive teen'. The series starts on the 5th of April at 11:30 P.M. This info was taken from the May edition of 'SELECT' magazine." Thanks to Bernard McKeever for this story.

Recently (within the last 4 months) Australia's leading radio station Triple J did a national survey on the Top 100 songs of all time. I am writing to inform you that Nirvana got 5 songs into this chart with 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' making the No. 1 spot." I don't remember if I put up this info previously, if so, here it was again! Thanks to Mark Taylor for sending it in.

Dutch TV Channel, The Music Factory (TMF) will also be airing a Nirvana special on April 5th. I believe it begins at 8 PM, CET with a Nirvana interview followed by MTV's Unplugged at 10 PM. After that at 11 PM is a Nirvana Top 10. Should be an interesting night. More info here.

Brendon sent in this; "There is an episode of The Kids in the Hall, in which Scott Thompson (as Buddy Cole) burns a picture of Kurt Cobain. Actually he lights a whole bar on fire, but the picture of Kurt - which was given to Scott by Courtney after Kurt's death - is on the counter. It is the picture where Kurt is seven years old. Kurt and Scott were friends. Anyway the episode will be airing in the US on Comedy Central, on Friday, April 14, at 9:30 PM Eastern Time." The episode is also mentioned in the 'Nirvana in TV and Movies' section. Thanks to Brendon for this information.

It seems that the latest Nirvana book, "Nirvana: The Chosen Rejects" is finally out. According to the largest online bookstore, Amazon, it was published in February 2000. However they also state that "You may order it now and we will ship it to you when it arrives" ! So apparently it has not arrived to them yet. Funnily, if you check the other major online book store Barnes & Noble - they have the book listed and don't mention anything about pre-orders. So one would assume that they have it in stock and it has also received a few reviews already. In any case this book should contain a lot of interesting information that was previously unpublished. Obviously, I have not yet read it but hopefully I'll get a copy of it soon. If you have it please feel free to send a review or your comments about it. The book's ISBN is: 0312206631 and it was written by Kurt St. Thomas and Troy Smith. It was, apparently, published by St. Martin's Press sometime in February 2000. More info at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.