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Nirvana's major label debut was their second album, Nevermind, which was released on DGC Records in September, 1991. On August 15, 1991, Nirvana played a concert at the Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood, California to showcase the band to the new record company.
Prior to the album's release, Nirvana became the first band to sign an extended contract with Sub Pop. [29] Bleach was released in June 1989, and became a favorite of college radio stations. Nirvana embarked on its first national tour, [30] [31] but
In many ways it was a sort of family reunion — Gordon and her former band, Sonic Youth, played a huge role in Nirvana’s rise, bringing them on tour and paving the way for the record deal that ...
Nirvana's Paramount performance was the third of three shows in the Pacific Northwest with fellow Seattle band Mudhoney, and the final show of the North American leg of their Nevermind tour before the band departed for Europe. The three concerts, which also featured shows in Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, British Columbia, had been booked two ...
On Thursday, Jan. 30, the drummer, 56, was joined by his fellow Nirvana band members, bassist Krist Novoselic and rhythm guitarist Pat Smear, as they reunited for the FireAid Benefit Concert for ...
The charity FireAid concert played host to the closest thing the world will see to a Nirvana reunion, as the band’s surviving members teamed up with a rotating cast of female rock artists for a ...
The video includes live performances, as well as interview clips, news footage and the band's home movies. [1] The live material is drawn largely from the band's 1991 Nevermind tour, with their shows at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle, Washington, on October 31, 1991, and Paradiso in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on November 25, 1991, featured most prominently.
It wasn’t always thus. Peterson recalls Nirvana’s first Seattle show, circa 1988, as a restrained affair. “They just stood on stage in dark lights,” he says.