Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Nirvana’s third and final album, “In Utero,” is often overlooked because it basically marked the beginning of the end of the band — Kurt Cobain died less than eight months after it was released.
While not the kind of celebratory, culture-shifting album that its predecessor, “Nevermind,” was, it’s still a glorious piece of vulnerable, rebellious rock music that includes some of Cobain’s best-ever songs.
A forthcoming 30th anniversary edition, due from Universal on Oct. 27, collects all of the album’s songs and outtakes along with two full concerts from the tour in support of the album, bringing together 72 tracks — with 53 of them unreleased.
Along with full concerts from Los Angeles and Seattle, there are six bonus live tracks from Springfield, New York and Rome (the latter from one of the band’s last-ever concerts, an oft-bootlegged radio broadcast).
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