The late Screaming Trees singer Mark Lanegan was close friends with Kurt Cobain during the latter’s lifetime. Cobain performed on Lanegan’s debut solo album, and anecdotes from Lanegan’s memoir illustrated just how tight the two grunge artists were.
It turns out their collaborative efforts apparently went both ways. In the new biographical oral history, Lanegan, the singer’s former Queens of the Stone Age bandmate Nick Oliveri revealed that Mark helped write lyrics for Nirvana’s stark masterpiece “Something in the Way,” but went uncredited. Therefore Lanegan — who often struggled to make ends meet while coping with drug addiction — didn’t receive what would have been massive royalties for the sales of Nirvana’s mega-selling album Nevermind.
“Mark said he wrote some lyrics on ‘Something in the Way’ with Kurt on Nevermind,” Oliveri told author Greg Prato. “But Kurt had played on some of Mark’s solo stuff,...
It turns out their collaborative efforts apparently went both ways. In the new biographical oral history, Lanegan, the singer’s former Queens of the Stone Age bandmate Nick Oliveri revealed that Mark helped write lyrics for Nirvana’s stark masterpiece “Something in the Way,” but went uncredited. Therefore Lanegan — who often struggled to make ends meet while coping with drug addiction — didn’t receive what would have been massive royalties for the sales of Nirvana’s mega-selling album Nevermind.
“Mark said he wrote some lyrics on ‘Something in the Way’ with Kurt on Nevermind,” Oliveri told author Greg Prato. “But Kurt had played on some of Mark’s solo stuff,...
- 2/22/2023
- by Jon Hadusek
- Consequence - Music
Heavy Consequence contributor Greg Prato is also the author of several rock books. His latest, titled Lanegan, pays tribute to late singer Mark Lanegan. Below he introduces exclusive excerpts from Lanegan, as told by the vocalist’s musical peers.
As learned throughout his autobiography, Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir, few lived their life as hard as Mark Lanegan did. After apparently overcoming a near-fatal episode with Covid in 2021 — I interviewed over 20 musicians, friends, and admirers of his music for my latest book, simply titled Lanegan. Below are excerpts from the book, which touch upon various eras of his remarkable career.
Kim Thayil (Soundgarden): We played shows with the Trees, and Mark Pickerel used to joke about how the Trees were compared to the Doors – because on the early Trees records, people would describe Lanegan as having a voice that was reminiscent of Jim Morrison. And in our early days,...
As learned throughout his autobiography, Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir, few lived their life as hard as Mark Lanegan did. After apparently overcoming a near-fatal episode with Covid in 2021 — I interviewed over 20 musicians, friends, and admirers of his music for my latest book, simply titled Lanegan. Below are excerpts from the book, which touch upon various eras of his remarkable career.
Kim Thayil (Soundgarden): We played shows with the Trees, and Mark Pickerel used to joke about how the Trees were compared to the Doors – because on the early Trees records, people would describe Lanegan as having a voice that was reminiscent of Jim Morrison. And in our early days,...
- 2/22/2023
- by Greg Prato
- Consequence - Music
One of Nirvana’s weirdest, most whispery songs, complete with musings on the emotions of aquatic life, is a streaming smash nearly 31 years after its release — thanks to its use as a bellwether for Bruce Wayne’s emotions in The Batman. The Nevermind track “Something in the Way,” which was never a single, and never had a video, is trending on TikTok, and is currently Spotify’s second-most popular Nirvana song, right after “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” with streams up 1,200 percent. This week, the song managed to debut in Billboard’s Hot 100, at No.
- 3/24/2022
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Maybe this will help put a smile on the face of our favorite sadboi goth? On second thought, maybe not ... but that feels fitting, somehow.
Despite some typical examples of consternation among fans about an unexpected casting choice, Matt Reeves' "The Batman" has certainly lived up to expectations and done exactly what you'd expect a "Batman" movie to do at the box office. The only doom and gloom to report here is the kind that comes from the relatable emo's own disturbed and traumatized...
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Despite some typical examples of consternation among fans about an unexpected casting choice, Matt Reeves' "The Batman" has certainly lived up to expectations and done exactly what you'd expect a "Batman" movie to do at the box office. The only doom and gloom to report here is the kind that comes from the relatable emo's own disturbed and traumatized...
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- 3/16/2022
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
Dear Zoë Kravitz and Robert Pattinson,
We are the co-hosts of Don’t Let This Flop, a podcast about internet culture sponsored by Rolling Stone. It is, for the most part, a silly little show where we talk about things like Hilary Duff’s dancing and men who eat sandwiches shirtless and whether or not we would join Scientology if John Travolta were still hot. Yet your recent outrageous behavior on the press tour for The Batman has compelled us to speak out against a grave injustice.
You both have...
We are the co-hosts of Don’t Let This Flop, a podcast about internet culture sponsored by Rolling Stone. It is, for the most part, a silly little show where we talk about things like Hilary Duff’s dancing and men who eat sandwiches shirtless and whether or not we would join Scientology if John Travolta were still hot. Yet your recent outrageous behavior on the press tour for The Batman has compelled us to speak out against a grave injustice.
You both have...
- 3/16/2022
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
Discover a podcast about the most incredible TV show of all time (that never really existed).
“Tumbler’s Willy’ is the longest-running TV drama in the world – so how come you’ve never heard of it until now? Maybe you’re a cultural sloth, or perhaps you’ve just been busy chasing your dreams. Whatever, now’s your chance to discover what you’ve been missing for the last 120 years. Join American sitcom writer Andy Bobrow and UK children’s author Andy Stanton as they take a deep and incredibly dumb dive into this most British-est of shows. If you’ve got any sense at all, you won’t believe your ears.”
Read more here
Pixar’s latest film Turning Red has drawn a lot of controversy online over its portrayal of teenagers, and we’re kind of confused as to why.
“Turning Red is now available to stream on...
“Tumbler’s Willy’ is the longest-running TV drama in the world – so how come you’ve never heard of it until now? Maybe you’re a cultural sloth, or perhaps you’ve just been busy chasing your dreams. Whatever, now’s your chance to discover what you’ve been missing for the last 120 years. Join American sitcom writer Andy Bobrow and UK children’s author Andy Stanton as they take a deep and incredibly dumb dive into this most British-est of shows. If you’ve got any sense at all, you won’t believe your ears.”
Read more here
Pixar’s latest film Turning Red has drawn a lot of controversy online over its portrayal of teenagers, and we’re kind of confused as to why.
“Turning Red is now available to stream on...
- 3/16/2022
- by Lee Parham
- Den of Geek
It’s been two months since audiences got their first look at Matt Reeves’ new take on Batman. Now, in a new interview with Empire magazine, Reeves is sharing his inspiration behind Robert Pattinson’s portrayal of Bruce Wayne.
“When I write, I listen to music, and as I was writing the first act, I put on Nirvana’s ‘Something In The Way’,” Reeves said. It was within the music that Reeves decided to forego the standard portrayal of Bruce Wayne as a playboy and go for something edgier. “There’s another version who had gone through a great tragedy and become a recluse. So I started making this connection to Gus Van Sant’s ‘Last Days,’ and the idea of this fictionalized version of Kurt Cobain being in this kind of decaying manor.”
With Kurt Cobain in his mind, it only galvanized Reeves’ decision to cast Pattinson. “He’s...
“When I write, I listen to music, and as I was writing the first act, I put on Nirvana’s ‘Something In The Way’,” Reeves said. It was within the music that Reeves decided to forego the standard portrayal of Bruce Wayne as a playboy and go for something edgier. “There’s another version who had gone through a great tragedy and become a recluse. So I started making this connection to Gus Van Sant’s ‘Last Days,’ and the idea of this fictionalized version of Kurt Cobain being in this kind of decaying manor.”
With Kurt Cobain in his mind, it only galvanized Reeves’ decision to cast Pattinson. “He’s...
- 12/19/2021
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
There's something about the way Robert Pattinson plays Bruce Wayne in The Batman. In an interview with Empire, posted on Saturday, Dec. 18, director Matt Reeves talked about how late Nirvana frontman and '90s music icon Kurt Cobain inspired his adaptation of the comic book character in the new film, which is set for release on March 4. "When I write, I listen to music, and as I was writing the first act, I put on Nirvana's 'Something In The Way,'" he said, referring to the grunge rock group's 1991 song, which Cobain wrote about a fictional person living under a bridge, and which appears in the trailers for The Batman. "That's when it...
- 12/18/2021
- E! Online
What makes a great movie or television series trailer? It’s less about conveying the plot and more about selling the overall atmosphere of what it will feel like to watch the entire project. The best trailers bottle up the energy of an entire show or feature-length movie and unleash that same energy in under three minutes without losing any edge. These 10 trailers below did that the best in 2020.
“Killing Eve” Season 3 Official Trailer
A perfect example of a trailer that is more tantalizing than the resulting show, the sneak peek at “Killing Eve’s” third season even cleverly obscures the fact that one of the heavily featured characters (spoiler!) dies in the first episode. Get excited by Villanelle’s fashion choices and deeply weirded out by her homicidal clown, because it’s pretty much all diminishing returns from there.
“Perry Mason” Official Trailer
Wait, wait, wait, Matthew Rhys scruffily...
“Killing Eve” Season 3 Official Trailer
A perfect example of a trailer that is more tantalizing than the resulting show, the sneak peek at “Killing Eve’s” third season even cleverly obscures the fact that one of the heavily featured characters (spoiler!) dies in the first episode. Get excited by Villanelle’s fashion choices and deeply weirded out by her homicidal clown, because it’s pretty much all diminishing returns from there.
“Perry Mason” Official Trailer
Wait, wait, wait, Matthew Rhys scruffily...
- 12/26/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
It’s kind of an odd song to use for a Batman movie since the dark time in Kurt Cobain’s life that saw this song come to life doesn’t really correlate with the life of a crimefighting-obsessed Bruce Wayne, who has unlimited resources at his disposal and a desperate need to throw himself into a profession that could get him killed. But the song has still risen in the charts thanks to its inclusion in the latest trailer that The Batman has shown the world. Hearing that the trailer has been viewed around 15 million times already isn’t surprising, and it’s
The Batman Trailer Boosts Nirvana’s “Something in the Way”...
The Batman Trailer Boosts Nirvana’s “Something in the Way”...
- 8/31/2020
- by Tom
- TVovermind.com
Almost 30 years after its debut, the 1991 Nirvana song “Something in the Way,” which was used in “The Batman” trailer that premiered over the weekend at DC Fandome, has become a best seller on digital music retailers Itunes and Amazon.
The closing track from Nirvana’s “Nevermind” album is currently ranked at #19 on Top 200 Songs on iTunes according to Pop Vortex. Over on Amazon Music, the song is currently #23 on best-selling songs list. At press time, the trailer has amassed over 15 million views on Youtube.
“Something in the Way” was the 12th and final listed song from Nirvana’s breakthrough album “Nevermind” (not counting the album’s hidden track), released in Sept. 1991. While the song wasn’t released as a single, it had the good fortune of being the final track on a record that sold more than 30 million copies.
Set early on in the Dark Knight’s career — Matt Reeves...
The closing track from Nirvana’s “Nevermind” album is currently ranked at #19 on Top 200 Songs on iTunes according to Pop Vortex. Over on Amazon Music, the song is currently #23 on best-selling songs list. At press time, the trailer has amassed over 15 million views on Youtube.
“Something in the Way” was the 12th and final listed song from Nirvana’s breakthrough album “Nevermind” (not counting the album’s hidden track), released in Sept. 1991. While the song wasn’t released as a single, it had the good fortune of being the final track on a record that sold more than 30 million copies.
Set early on in the Dark Knight’s career — Matt Reeves...
- 8/25/2020
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Did you recognize the song that plays in The Batman's first trailer? The buzzy initial look at Robert Pattinson's version of the iconic superhero is set to a particularly epic, surprisingly dark remix of a song you've definitely heard before.
The song playing in the trailer is a version of Nirvana's "Something in the Way," but it's not quite the track you're probably used to hearing. Originally, "Something in the Way" was the last song on the band's breakout album, Nevermind, in 1991, and while it never became a gigantic hit single, it's had a long life and a fair bit of popularity over the past 30 years. In its original form, it's a softer, more stripped-down song, featuring acoustic guitar and even a bit of cello.
For the trailer, however, someone - presumably the film's composer, Michael Giacchino, who's worked on several of your favorite sci-fi projects, including...
The song playing in the trailer is a version of Nirvana's "Something in the Way," but it's not quite the track you're probably used to hearing. Originally, "Something in the Way" was the last song on the band's breakout album, Nevermind, in 1991, and while it never became a gigantic hit single, it's had a long life and a fair bit of popularity over the past 30 years. In its original form, it's a softer, more stripped-down song, featuring acoustic guitar and even a bit of cello.
For the trailer, however, someone - presumably the film's composer, Michael Giacchino, who's worked on several of your favorite sci-fi projects, including...
- 8/24/2020
- by Amanda Prahl
- Popsugar.com
The Batman trailer arrived at DC FanDome and it was unexpectedly set to an iconic Generation X song. No, you silly goose, we’re not talking about Billy Idol’s old band, we mean, you know, ’90s kids. The eerie and somber trailer was set to the equally eerie and somber strains of Nirvana’s “Something in the Way,” the closing track off the band’s breakthrough album Nevermind.
In case you’ve been living “underneath the bridge” and somehow haven’t seen The Batman trailer yet, here it is…
Sure, this song is a great fit for this trailer, but we have to wonder how Kurt Cobain would have felt about his music being used to promote a blockbuster movie.
“Something in the Way” was notable for being one of the few quiet and understated track’s on the second Nirvana album, which was otherwise dominated by layers of...
In case you’ve been living “underneath the bridge” and somehow haven’t seen The Batman trailer yet, here it is…
Sure, this song is a great fit for this trailer, but we have to wonder how Kurt Cobain would have felt about his music being used to promote a blockbuster movie.
“Something in the Way” was notable for being one of the few quiet and understated track’s on the second Nirvana album, which was otherwise dominated by layers of...
- 8/23/2020
- by Mike Cecchini
- Den of Geek
DC FanDome has shared the much-anticipated and gritty first look at Robert Pattinson in The Batman, where the young Dark Knight is on the search for “vengeance.”
The trailer, soundtracked by Nirvana’s “Something in the Way,” returns the Dark Knight to the role of “vigilante detective” — as opposed to superhero — as the Riddler menaces Gotham City with mysterious murders and Zoë Kravitz’s Catwoman is cat-burglarizing.
The teaser also provides the first full look at Pattinson in the Batman suit, Jeffrey Wright as Commissioner Gordon as well as a...
The trailer, soundtracked by Nirvana’s “Something in the Way,” returns the Dark Knight to the role of “vigilante detective” — as opposed to superhero — as the Riddler menaces Gotham City with mysterious murders and Zoë Kravitz’s Catwoman is cat-burglarizing.
The teaser also provides the first full look at Pattinson in the Batman suit, Jeffrey Wright as Commissioner Gordon as well as a...
- 8/23/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
The Batman trailer is finally here, accompanied by Nirvana’s “Something in the Way.” The two-minutes-and-a-half of footage presents a nightmarish new take on Gotham and the Dark Knight, an impressive feat considering only 25% of the movie has been shot so far, according to what director Matt Reeves said during the DC FanDome digital event.
Matt Reeves’ Batman reboot explores the early days of the Caped Crusader’s career, about two years into it, and focuses on a younger Bruce Wayne who is haunted by his past as well as a new villain who’s leaving victims all of the city for him to find.
We see in the trailer as Batman is hunted by a serial killer who is leaving him letters at every crime scene, teasing that the movie will feel more like a detective story than the usual action take. The trailer also gives us our first look at several villains,...
Matt Reeves’ Batman reboot explores the early days of the Caped Crusader’s career, about two years into it, and focuses on a younger Bruce Wayne who is haunted by his past as well as a new villain who’s leaving victims all of the city for him to find.
We see in the trailer as Batman is hunted by a serial killer who is leaving him letters at every crime scene, teasing that the movie will feel more like a detective story than the usual action take. The trailer also gives us our first look at several villains,...
- 8/23/2020
- by John Saavedra
- Den of Geek
“The Batman” writer-director Matt Reeves unveiled the first trailer for the film during the final panel for the DC FanDome event on Saturday.
The moody teaser, set to Nirvana’s “Something in the Way,” focuses most on the presence of the Riddler (Paul Dano), who is leaving a series of deadly teasers for the Batman and Commissioner Gordon (Jeffery Wright). It also reveals a few quick glimpses of Zoë Kravitz as Catwoman, provides the first full look of Pattinson in the Batsuit and driving the Batmobile, and underlines this Batman’s brutal approach to fighting crime as he beats the crap out of a low-level hoodlum to make a point.
In the panel for the film, Reeves said “The Batman” won’t be an origin story per se, but it does start in “Year Two” of Batman’s emergence, in which Batman and several other iconic characters — Catwoman, the Riddler,...
The moody teaser, set to Nirvana’s “Something in the Way,” focuses most on the presence of the Riddler (Paul Dano), who is leaving a series of deadly teasers for the Batman and Commissioner Gordon (Jeffery Wright). It also reveals a few quick glimpses of Zoë Kravitz as Catwoman, provides the first full look of Pattinson in the Batsuit and driving the Batmobile, and underlines this Batman’s brutal approach to fighting crime as he beats the crap out of a low-level hoodlum to make a point.
In the panel for the film, Reeves said “The Batman” won’t be an origin story per se, but it does start in “Year Two” of Batman’s emergence, in which Batman and several other iconic characters — Catwoman, the Riddler,...
- 8/23/2020
- by Adam B. Vary
- Variety Film + TV
Everyone remembers the sweater, but I mostly remember the hush.
Twenty-five years ago today, Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged in New York arrived on CD, cassette and VHS tape. By then, Kurt Cobain had been dead nearly seven months, and the appearance of this largely acoustic performance, taped nearly a year before, took on the feel of a memorial service. That mood wasn’t reflected simply in the look of the stage – which, with its flowers and candles, eerily evoked the “funeral” scenario Cobain was aiming for – but also in the toned-down performances of “All Apologies,...
Twenty-five years ago today, Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged in New York arrived on CD, cassette and VHS tape. By then, Kurt Cobain had been dead nearly seven months, and the appearance of this largely acoustic performance, taped nearly a year before, took on the feel of a memorial service. That mood wasn’t reflected simply in the look of the stage – which, with its flowers and candles, eerily evoked the “funeral” scenario Cobain was aiming for – but also in the toned-down performances of “All Apologies,...
- 11/1/2019
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
Melvins formed a few years before anyone used the word “grunge” as the name of a genre, but they embodied the term perfectly with their deep, sludgy riffs and left-of-center songwriting. Since 1984, they’ve released dozens of albums of uncompromising and sometimes experimental music, and constantly challenged rock norms. When we compiled our recent list of the 50 Greatest Grunge Albums, two of their standout LPs — 1991’s Bullhead and 1993’s Houdini — made the cut.
The band’s frontman, vocalist-guitarist Buzz Osborne, was surprised to hear the news, but not for the reason you may guess.
The band’s frontman, vocalist-guitarist Buzz Osborne, was surprised to hear the news, but not for the reason you may guess.
- 4/3/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
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