Some news that makes us wish that we lived closer to Seattle: Experience Music Project has just opened Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses, a major exhibition of photos and 225 artifacts from the band’s short history that includes high school artwork by Kurt Cobain, old show flyers, and several smashed guitars. “We made a great effort to show these items in context,” EMI curator Jacob McMurray, who has been working on the show for the past two years, told the Seattle Times. “We didn’t want these things to exist as sterile items in a case.” Click through to check out a slideshow of highlights from the exhibit.
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Former Nirvana drummer, Dave Grohl, and former Nirvana bassist, Krist Novoselic, released a statement last evening denouncing Guitar Hero 5′s inclusion of Kurt Cobain as an unlockable character. “It’s hard to watch an image of Kurt pantomiming other artists’ music alongside cartoon characters. Cobain wrote songs that hold a lot of meaning to people all over the world. We feel he deserves better.” And by better, they mean anything but a bizarrely-excited puppet version of Kurt Cobain, who dances around, sings Bon Jovi and says things like, “Yeee boiiii.” A look at Grohl and Novoselic’s full statement — along with Courtney Love’s tweet-a-thon — after the jump. Read More »
On Monday, former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic withdrew from the race for Wahkiakum County Clerk. The non-Foo fighter was running a “protest candidacy” for the made-up Grange Party in an attempt to draw attention to the top-two primary system in Washington State that the bassist feels is too easily exploitable.
Since Novoselic never actually intended to go all the way, we’re going to cut him some slack here and chalk it up to creative political activism — but it got us thinking about some other musicians who have tried their hands in the world’s dirtiest job. After the jump, we break these upwardly mobile musicians into a list of real rebels and poser politicians.
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