Mark Lanegan says Nirvana are “just as vital now as they were in the ’90s”

nme.com:

He thinks it's "badass" that acts like Post Malone cover the band Mark Lanegan has recalled the time he spent with Kurt Cobain around the ‘Nevermind’ era, and claimed that Nirvana remain “just as vital today” as they were in those early days.

Speaking in a new interview with NME, Lanegan remembered “hanging out” with Cobain in a Seattle hotel room shortly after Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ was released in 1991. “[MTV] were playing ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ around the clock at the time,” he explained. “[Cobain] got into a heated argument with whoever he was talking to on the phone and pulled the phone cord out of the wall.