Post Malone: his tribute to the Nirvana becomes a record
Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl publicly made him compliments for his tribute. “Tribute to Nirvana” is the title of the live album of Post Malonewhich will be published for the first time on April 12 for Republic. The disc includes fourteen songs recorded in April 2020 When the American artist and rapper, in full pandemic, decided to pay homage to the band of surprise Kurt Cobain with a streaming performance for charity, whose video has gone around the world. At posty times he had not yet taken a “guitar” turninggiving a thrilling performance that some have called “the best tribute to the Nirvana ever made”.
The album will be on sale, on the occasion of the Day 2025 Record Storewith the first ever edition in colored yellow vinyl. It will have a limited edition of 17,000 copies worldwide. It is not over, Dopo the legendary performance at Fireaid, A few days ago the Nirvana returned to surprise the audience with a performance at the “SNL50: The Homecoming Concert “. Historical formation, composed of Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear, has seen a special adhesion: just Post Malone, in the role of Frontmanreinterpreted one of the best -known songs of the band, “Smells like Teen Spirit”.
Who expected an acoustic set, perhaps a handful of songs, In those difficult days of 2020saw his certainties pleasantly crumble after a minute from the beginning of the live broadcast. Post Malone, guitar, hat and collar with studs, in front of the bar counter set up in one of the rooms of his house, in Utahaccompanied by a real band, set up a tribute concert to the Nirvana in streaming of one hour and a quarter: a power of nature, to make the walls tremble. Together with him, as a special guest, The drummer Travis Barker. The component of the Blink 182, in one of the other rooms of the villahe made a roller compressor by helping Posty play several pieces of Seattle’s legendary band. With them Nick Mack on guitar and Brian Lee on bass, collaborators of the voice of “Rockstar”also positioned in communicating spaces of his home. Malone and Lee showed up wearing women’s dressing groovesa tribute to Kurt Cobain’s eccentric clothing.
“Nirvana are my favorite band,” Malone said with his heartwho organized Live to support the fundraising of the World Health Organization in support of the rescue activities against Covid-19. After being “Benedetto” from Courtney Love, Cobain’s widow, in direct Malone collected the compliments of the former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselić who on social media said he was proud of the rapper’s crew and their tribute: “They couldn’t do better!” Novoselić wrote. Now comes the album that photographs that live and opens the doors to a new season. Because if it is true that the artist with “F-1 Trillion”, released last yearhas taken a country turning point (on August 27 it will be in Italy to present the album in concert in Milan), it is to be sure that his next project It will be a return to the dark, rock and urban world that has always distinguished it.
This is the tracklist of the album:
1. Drain You (Live)
2. As as you are (live)
3. Lounge Act (Live)
4. School (live)
5. Heart Shaped Box (Live)
6. Something in the way (live)
7. About a girl (live)
8. Stay Away (Live)
9. Lithium (live)
10. Breed (live)
11. On a plane (live)
12. Very Ape (Live)
13. Territory Pissings (Live)
14. In Bloom (live)
