Jon Stewart to Host Session With Nirvana Members

 

Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart will host a Q&A session with the surviving members of rock band Nirvana to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its album “Nevermind.”

Stewart will host the event on SiriusXM for two hours on Sept. 24. It will feature fans, Nirvana band members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, and Butch Vig, the producer behind “Nevermind.” Kurt Cobain, the band’s lead singer, committed suicide in 1994.

“Nevermind” was the band’s second album and has sold 10 million units in theUnited States. It features Nirvana’s biggest hit, “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”

Grohl is now the lead singer of the Foo Fighters.

SiriusXM will also launch the all-Nirvana channel, Nevermind Radio, on Sept. 23 until Sept. 28.

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Dave Grohl Now Happy to Talk About Nirvana

For a long time, it was considered bad form to ask Dave Grohl about Nirvana. Now he hopes he’ll always be asked for Nirvana stories.

Grohl says Kurt Cobain’s death was a traumatic experience and the last thing he wanted to do was grieve on television. It got easier as time passed, and creating the Foo Fighters helped with that.

Grohl says part of him wants to get out of the shadow of Nirvana because he doesn’t want it to eclipse the Foo Fighters, but he acknowledges that Foo Fighters would never have existed if it weren’t for Nirvana. He says, “I hope that I have to talk about Nirvana for the rest of my life.”

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