On "Unplugged in New York," Nirvana plays ... charts and news But that’s not an oxymoron at all, as Nirvana collaborators Meat Puppets can attest. Three of those covers came from their 1984 ...

Never abandoning their DIY punk roots, Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged in New York set is earnest, joyous and comforting. The ensemble sounds like a warm sunset bleeding onto an antique carpet. As they ...

The Meat Puppets were another of Kurt’s obsessions ... The Man Who Sold the World [the David Bowie song covered by Nirvana on Unplugged]. “It’s an acoustic guitar, but obviously he ...

Members of Meat Puppets even joined Nirvana on stage ... The album version of Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged set was released several months after Cobain took his own life in 1994.

in covering three of their own songs for Nirvana's "MTV Unplugged" performance. Overnight, the Kirkwoods' band Meat Puppets skyrocketed from '80s underground icons to '90s mainstream rock stars. But ...

The trio known as Meat Puppets weren’t exactly a household name before 1993. After performing on Nirvana’s episode of MTV Unplugged, Meat Puppets gained both notoriety and their biggest album ...

“They were really nervous about doing Unplugged, because they were really leaving themselves ... Focusing on covers ranging from Bowie to The Vaselines and the Meat Puppets, Nirvana experimented with ...

Kirkwood recruited Krist Novoselic for the power trio, as the pair had history — you’ll surely recall that Nirvana covered two Meat Puppets songs for MTV Unplugged, even bringing the Kirkwood ...

“We’d seen the other Unpluggeds and didn’t like many of them,” Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl ... from psychedelic country-punk band the Meat Puppets – the day before they were scheduled ...