Nevermind Baby Recreates Classic Cover

Skinnydipping Nirvana cover boy looks back with mixed feelings

(NEWSER) - One of rock music’s most famous cover subjects is a little leery of his past. Spencer Elden was 3 months old when he appeared naked as a money-grubbing underwater baby on Nirvana’s Nevermind; now he says the photo, on an album that sold tens of millions of copies, may make him “the world’s biggest porn star,” MTV News reports. More»

Apparently naked babies are not OK, even on album art

(NEWSER) - Nirvana's artistic choices are apparently a little too risque for Facebook: The band's iconic 1991 Nevermind cover has become the latest image banned by the social network, which says the picture of a naked baby boy violates Facebook's terms of use. A photo of the album, soon to have its 20th anniversary, was uploaded to Nirvana's Facebook page and then removed by the site, notes the Hollywood Reporter . More»

Seminal album sold 30M copies, will be re-released Sept. 19

(NEWSER) - Nirvana's Nevermind turns 20 this September (yep, it has been 20 years and yes, you are old). So Universal thought it only right to celebrate the multi-platinum album by issuing a remastered version of it—as part of a massive set that includes four CDs and one DVD. The set, to be released on Sept. 19, will feature rare B-sides, BBC radio appearances, previously unreleased concert footage, and even unreleased tracks, reports SPIN , which named Nevermind one of the greatest albums of the 1990s. More»

(NEWSER) - Teen spirit has hit a London stage in a play that involves the troubled life of rocker Kurt Cobain, reports the Independent. The production, Nevermind, features a struggling music critic, John, visited by Cobain's ghost. "Cobain appears as his alter ego: a success who couldn't deal with it, as opposed to John, a failure who can't deal with it," said playwright and former rock singer Martin Sadofski, referring to Cobain's suicide at the age of 27. More»