Today I’m stoked to share with you all this groovy electro remix from Sound Remedy of Crush On You by the legendary Nero. In the past you’ve heard his chill almost funky remix of Nirvana. But here he shows off a completely different side of his production style. He builds anticipation with the epic Nero [...]

Supported by fiN As we walk in to a very crowded Kasbah tonight and squeeze ourselves up against the bar, the support band are already playing. They’re called fiN, yes that’s ‘fiN’ with some eccentric reverse capitalisation, a lowercase ‘f’ and a capital ‘N’, presumably to distinguish themselves from early 90's band Fin, not that it makes a jot of difference to google. As they play away we barter with the girl on the bar to find exactly what’s actually available tonight, beer - nope, San Miguel - ran out, wine - nope, shall we just have Tuborg then ...

Saturday sees two HT faves appear nationwide as Wilco make their triumphant return to Austin City Limits and Bon Iver make their Saturday Night Live debut. Channing Tatum is set to host Saturday Night Live which airs at 11:30PM ET/PT on NBC. Friday, February 3 [All Times ET] Ziggy Marley on David Letterman [CBS 11:35PM] Bush on Jay Leno [NBC 11:35PM] Young the Giant on Jimmy Kimmel [ABC Midnight] Fitz and the Tantrums on Jimmy Fallon [NBC 12:35AM] M83 on Carson Daly [NBC 1:37AM] Saturday, February 4 Wilco on Austin City Limits [PBS] David ...

Dave Grohl is getting into the TV business. The Foo Fighters frontman and former Nirvana drummer is executive producing a 30-minute comedy currently in the works from FX, Deadline Hollywood reports. Grohl got involved at the behest of the show's creator and star, comedian Dana Gould, who's evidently a Foo Fighters fan. And look, they both have the same initials! The show will focus on (surprise) a rock band. This particular rock band is about to get huge, but it's also about to break up, so its members take a page out of Metallica doc Some Kind ...

Cloud Nothings used to be mediocre. Cloud Nothings used to be forgettable. Cloud Nothings used to be a solo-project. Of their show supporting Crocodiles at the Camden Barfly , this time last year, I referred to their “ brand of jangly pop-punk ” as “ upbeat and energetic but exceptionally bland and generic ”. However, Cloud Nothings' new record – ' Attack On Memory ' – is the sound of a band revitalised. It is the sound of a band emerging as vital . Ohio natives Cloud Nothings began as the vehicle for a lone Dylan Baldi , the frontman and principle songwriter who played all the instruments on their first ...

Cloud Nothings’ debut album was by far my favourite album of last year, but even though I’m still convinced it was brilliant in a raw, primitive way, no other critics felt the same and it failed to make any of the big album of the year lists, therefore proving that my taste is wrong. Despite the lack of critical appreciation, the album was seen as a stepping stone for Dylan Baldi, the sole protagonist of that debut album, on his way to something better. Attack on Memory may be just that, such a departure and a huge step forward ...

Dave Grohl is currently filming an audio documentary at the studio where Nirvana recorded Nevermind. This is Sound City in Van Nuys, California. Grohl is getting various musicians who’ve worked there in the past to come in and record new songs, using the same equipment. Although the details are being kept under wraps, Classic Rock understands that [...]

Just a year after their eponymous debut, Cloud Nothings, the Cleveland, Ohio-based group, return with a stunning new Wichita album, Attack On Memory. And here’s the big news – it was produced by the king of noise rock, Steve Albini (Nirvana, Pixies, Manic Street Preachers, and PJ Harvey). The ...

Big Head Todd and the Monsters may not be one of the names that leap to mind when discussing the early history of the modern jamband festival scene. Yet, when you look back on the old, grainy, Zapruder footage of the mid-90s H.O.R.D.E. festivals, Todd Park Mohr’s Colorado-based trio (now a quartet) doesn’t come across as a fuzzy blur in an off-center grassy knoll. Alongside Blues Traveler, Widespread Panic and a pre-Derek Trucks Allman Brothers Band, Big Head Todd & The Monsters were among one of the main draws of the 1993 and 1994 versions of the jamband world’s influential answer to Lollapalooza. At New York City’s Irving Plaza (mercifully nee Fillmore), BHT revisited their early days offering the fans that grew with them a real treat: Midnight Radio , their finest album, in its entirety. [Photo by C. Taylor Crothers] The only thing keeping the full album gimmick from having a renaissance is the fact that it may never have had a heyday. As it stands now, the results are mixed. When Bruce Springsteen breaks out The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle at Madison Square Garden, the event can become awash in the warm glow of revisionist nostalgia where everyone remembers the album being successful upon its release. When Peter Frampton takes Frampton Comes Alive out on the road, it makes fine business sense. When The Spin Doctors resurrect Pocket Full of Kryptonite  (and themselves) at the Bowery Ballroom, it becomes kitschy fun for a finely-hewed target audience. When Evan Dando decides to perform The Lemonheads’ It’s A Shame About Ray at the Knitting Factory, it reeks of desperation and begs intervention. (In all fairness, you could interchange The Spin Doctors and Evan Dando in those last two sentences and still maintain an acceptable semblance of journalistic accuracy). An interesting marriage of the home listening and live concert experiences, it has to be bittersweet for an artist to use an album from their distant past as a successful selling point for a show. On one hand, reconnecting with a collection of songs that presumably found an audience and helped launch or sustain a career can be pretty special for both an artist and their audience. On the other, artists grow; devoting a night to putting an album on a pedestal that an artist may very ...

As Jay-Z gets set to perform a pair of benefit shows next week at Carnegie Hall, and tastemakers like Diplo routinely seek out plainspoken music from impoverished areas both rural and urban, it might be tough to remember there was ever a divide between so-called high and low culture. In the mid-1930s, however, when folklorist Alan Lomax started making field recordings across the South, hillbilly music and African-American blues were considered, well, déclassé. The music in Lomax's vaults helped pave the way for everyone from Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones to Spinal Tap, and soon it will all ...

Slipknot’s Corey Taylor has now revealed that the project is part of Grohl’s documentary about Sound City Studios. This is the studio where Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ was recorded. Grohl is gathering a collection of musicians to record in the studio as part of the project. Taylor told Artisan News Service: “Dave is doing a documentary about

SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR singer Corey Taylor spoke to Artisan News about his collaboration with Dave Grohl on the FOO FIGHTERS frontman and ex-NIRVANA drummer's upcoming documentary about the studio where NIRVANA recorded its landmark album "Nevermind".

This week's slice of "Albums That Changed My Life" goodness comes from Dan O'Connor of Four Year Strong! The band are currently touring across Europe in support of their new album, 'In Some Way, Shape Or Form' and have recently announced they will be supporting blink-182 on their UK summer tour. Hatebreed - Satisfaction Is The Death Of Desire The first time I heard this record, it was one of the most angry, intense records I'd ever heard. Everything about it made the 13 year old me want to destroy everything. It was a gateway record for me ...

For many artists, there comes a point where reckless abandon, youthful exuberance and the noble art of writing a catchy pop song all fail to satisfy the artistic impulse. Traditionally, this should coincide with a newfound fascination with one or more of the following: acoustic guitars, gradiose arrangements, wistful balladry… you know the drill. It’s usually referred to as ‘maturing’ – supposedly the point at which a mere musician becomes a fully-fledged artist, and subsequently drops the idiosyncrasies that made them so exciting in the first place. In other words, it’s where the fun stops. That’s why it ...

Nirvana drummer/Foo Fighters frontman/funny video star/Muppets cameo actor Dave Grohl is about to add sitcom co-creator to his resume