While today it is remembered as a legend of the grunge, Kurt Cobain did not just consume that style of music, but, like any melomaniac, his musical horizon was vast. One of the many bands that Nirvana’s leader loved was Shonen Knife, a female pop-punk band formed in 1981 by Michie Nakatani, Naoko Yamano and Atsuko Yamano. Influenced by groups of girls from the 1960s, pop bands, Beach Boys and the first punk rock bands like the Ramones, Osaka’s n…
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While today it is remembered as a legend of the grunge, Kurt Cobain did not just consume that style of music, but, like any melomaniac, his musical horizon was vast. One of the many bands that Nirvana’s leader loved was Shonen Knife, a female pop-punk band formed in 1981 by Michie Nakatani, Naoko Yamano and Atsuko Yamano. Influenced by groups of girls from the 1960s, pop bands, Beach Boys and the first punk rock bands like the Ramones, Osaka’s n…