On September 24, one of the most important albums of our time will celebrate its 20th birthday. Few albums have had as much of an impact on contemporary rock music, even Indian rock, as Nevermind. To celebrate its two-decade anniversary, SPIN magazine got some popular and some not-as-popular-but-frequently-namedropped indie acts to cover all the 13 (yup, they even got singer-songwriter EMA to cover hidden track ‘Endless, Nameless’) tracks on the album. Artists include indie rock acts Surfer Blood, Titus Andronicus and Telekinesis, singer-songwriters Amanda Palmer and Jessica Lea Mayfield, and two acts that Nirvana frequently covered – The Vaselines and Meat Puppets (who play an acoustic version of ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’).
Download the album from SPIN magazine’s Facebook page, and read what the artists had to say about their covers here.
Here’s a kvlt death metal cover of ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ by Mumbai act Reptilian Death, performed (where else?) at Razz Rhino in 2007.
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