NIRVANA Podcast

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The Nirvana Podcast is an independent podcast about one of the greatest and most interesting bands in the history of rock music: Nirvana. The podcasters discuss the music and history of Kurt Cobain and his bandmates.

  • 25 minutes 50 seconds
    Nirvana Podcast Bonus 7 Kurt Cobains Effect Pedals

    What stomp boxes did Kurt Cobain use to create and shape his guitar sound? Sytse plugs in his guitar for a beginners journey through Kurts effect pedals. From a fuzz box to an amp simulator and from an epic chorus effect to the mysterious pedal X.

    9 July 2025, 4:50 pm
  • 52 minutes 14 seconds
    Nirvana Podcast Bonus 6 Kurt Cobains Legendary Guitars

    Kurt Cobain has played a lot of different guitars and in this episode we discuss the most iconic (and expensive) ones. From Hi-Fliers to mustangs and from jaguars to jag-stangs: we talk about them all.

    13 September 2024, 1:57 pm
  • 30 minutes 40 seconds
    Nirvana Podcast Bonus 5 A 2024 Nirvana Update

    The passing of Steve Albini, new audio leaks, new books and a visit to the house in Olympia Kurt Cobain and Dave Grohl lived in... All good reasons to make a bonus episode of The Nirvana Podcast. So that's what we did.


    You can reach us on [email protected] or find us on Facebook. You find out the new German book about Nirvana right here: https://www.reclam.de/detail/978-3-15-020711-6/Caldart__Isabella/Nirvana__100_Seiten

    20 May 2024, 7:59 am
  • 45 minutes 34 seconds
    Nirvana Podcast Bonus 4 In Utero 30th anniversary box set

    In Utero has reached Old Age: it's been 30 years since it was released. To celebrate an anniversary box set has been released. In this episode we discuss what it has to offer and whether or not we're going to put it on the top of our Christmas wishlist. Also we share some unreleased recording that could have been on the box but are left out.

    8 December 2023, 11:01 am
  • 37 minutes 5 seconds
    Nirvana Podcast Bonus 3 Tori Amos and Smells Like Teen Spirit

    Hello hello, in this special bonus episode we discuss the cover version Tori Amos did of Smells Like Teen Spirit. We are interviewed about the song by the hosts of The Songs of Tori Amos podcast, as part of a deep dive episode.


    Check out the Song of Tori Amos website right here:

    https://songsoftoriamos.com/


    To listen to the full Smells Like Tori Spirit podcast episode on SoundCloud, just click here: https://soundcloud.com/songsoftoriamospodcast/0123-le-bee-sides-smells-like-teen-spirit/s-Fzrhr?in=songsoftoriamospodcast/sets/le-bee-sides&si=8fbed469492149fd8488caeb05f7c052&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

    5 June 2023, 6:05 pm
  • 1 minute 1 second
    Introducing Iron Wine My Wife and I

    What do you do when your spouse doesn't really like one of your favourite artists? You talk her into doing a podcast series with you for which she has to listen to all of their albums! That's the origin of a new podcast series about the great music of Iron and Wine.

    9 February 2023, 12:57 pm
  • 1 hour 7 minutes
    Bonus 2 - Live Tonight Sold Out

    We are back with another bonus episode! This time we take a look at Live Tonight Sold Out, the Nirvana film that came out in 1994. We select our favourite scenes and discuss the ideas Kurt Cobain himself had for the project.

    6 September 2022, 8:11 am
  • 58 minutes 20 seconds
    Bonus 1 - Outcesticide

    The Nirvana Podcast returns for a one-off bonus episode! There's so much news, so we just had to come back to talk about Taylor Hawkins and Mark Lanegan, Dave Grohl's book, Kurts guitar, The Batman, grunge supergroup 3rd Secret, an upcoming Cobain inspired opera and the 30th anniversary release of Nevermind. But our main topic is: bootlegging and the great Outcesticide series. We select our favourite unreleased Nirvana songs from the new Outcesticide that surprisingly came out recently.

    15 April 2022, 6:32 am
  • 1 hour 11 minutes
    S2 E16 Our Top Ten Nirvana Songs and Final Thoughts

    In our final episode we present our top ten favourite Nirvana songs and share some final thoughts and loose stuff we never got to discuss in the previous 35 episodes. We want to thanks our listeners and everybody who helped us out. And of course: Nirvana for creating music, art and legends that just kept us talking.

    25 October 2021, 9:06 pm
  • 1 hour 15 minutes
    Nirvana Podcast S2 E15 - Nirvana and Pearl Jam

    In this episode - our penultimate - we discuss Pearl Jam and their relationship to Nirvana. Also we talk about Green River, Mother Love Bone, Neil Young and songs that have lists in them. Our guest Jelger explains what Pearl Jam means to him and why he thinks Eddie Vedder and Kurt Cobain were similar in spirit.

    23 August 2021, 1:13 pm
  • 1 hour 27 minutes
    Nirvana Podcast S2 E14 - Nirvana's Videos

    Next ladies and gentlemen we have three fine young men from Seattle... As always we talk about Nirvana, this time we focus on the videos they made. We provide background info, share our thoughts on them and wacht and comment live on the videos.

    26 July 2021, 6:53 pm
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