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Kurt Cobain’s daughter Frances Bean is to make her recorded debut, singing as part of a “gang” on a forthcoming album by Amanda Palmer. Bean will appear on the debut by Evelyn Evelyn, a project by the Dresden Dolls frontwoman and her bandmate Jason Webley.
The Evelyn Evelyn concept is, er, high. Palmer and Webley provide musical accompaniment to a pair of “conjoined twins who … spent their lives trapped in the circus industry”. According to the album’s principal conceit, Lyn and Eva Neville are real people, with a real Twitter account, born in 1985 and sharing “three legs, two arms, two hearts, three lungs and a single liver”. In spite of the gussied-up MySpace page, we suspect Palmer and Webley have been having fun in their dress-up box.
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Today, Activision has confirmed that a Kurt Cobain character will be playable in Guitar Hero 5 (out September 1st), alongside music legends Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix and the still living Shirley Manson of Garbage and Matt Bellamy of Muse. Two Nirvana tracks, Nevermind’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and a live version of “Lithium,” from their 1992 headlining slot at England’s Reading festival, also join the game’s set list, a first for the seminal band that defined the grunge era. “Kurt Cobain is one of the most recognizable frontmen in rock & roll history,” reads a statement released this morning, “and it’s an honor to have two of Nirvana’s masterpieces included in Guitar Hero 5.”
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