Liz Phair Adds "Guyville" Dates in Boston, DC and Philadelphia

After performing her 1993 album Exile in Guyville in its entirety in San Francisco, Chicago and New York, Liz Phair has added three more Guyville 15th anniversary shows: August 27th at Theater of the Living Arts in Philadelphia, August 28th at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC and August 29th at Boston's Paradise. Ticket info is available at Phair's Website. For Rock Daily's report from the first Guyville full-album show, click here.

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Song Stories

“Smells Like Teen Spirit”

Nirvana | 1991

"Smells Like Teen Spirit," named after a brand of deodorant marketed to girls, was Kurt Cobain's attempt to "write the ultimate pop song," he said, using the soft-loud dynamic of his favorite band, the Pixies. Cobain "had that dichotomy of punk rage and alienation," the song’s producer, Butch Vig, told Rolling Stone, "but also this vulnerable pop sensibility. In 'Teen Spirit,' a lot of that vulnerability is in the tone of his voice." Sadly, by the time of Nirvana's last U.S. tour, in late '93, Cobain was tortured by the obligation to play "Teen Spirit" every night. "There are many other songs that I have written that are as good, if not better," he claimed.

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