On April 8, 1994, the band played a benefit show for Rock Against Domestic Violence at the Cameo Theatre in Miami , alongside 7 Year Bitch and Jack Off Jill , the same day Nirvana lead vocalist Kurt Cobain had been found dead in his Seattle home.
Two days later, on April 8, Cobain was found dead of a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head at his home in the Denny-Blaine neighborhood of the city. He had died approximately three days earlier. Until the discovery of his body, Cobain had been missing since escaping the rehabilitation center.
On April 6, 1994, it was announced that Nirvana withdrew from their planned appearance at the Lollapalooza 94 tour due to Cobain’s ongoing health problems, with reports that they had broken up.
Nirvana disbanded after the death of Kurt Cobain in April 1994. Grohl received offers to work with various artists. Press rumors indicated he might join Pearl Jam , and he almost accepted a position as drummer in Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers . Grohl later said: “I was supposed to…
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In April 1994, the band released their second demo tape, The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to Hitler’s Handicapped Helpers .
In April Per Lindholm, A&R at RCA/BMG, heard the band for the first time and was immediately interested.
and ended in April in Mexico.
Soundgarden began working on its fourth album after touring in support of Badmotorfinger . Cornell said that while working on the album, the band allowed each other more freedom than on past records, and Thayil observed that they had spent a lot more time working on the recording of the…
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Their debut single, the double A-side “Mark”/”Casino Girl”—labelled by NME as “spirited ‘Barbarism Begins at Home’ skirl” – was released on 7 March 1994 to considerable acclaim from some sections of the music press, but failed to make the UK Top 40 , peaking at number 80. The follow-up single,…
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The band were unsatisfied with the sound of Comfort and their lack of involvement in the mixing process; they wanted a more flattering, produced sound that went beyond Albini’s style of essentially documenting a band’s raw live sound. So when the band went back into the studio in 1993, Andrews…
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