Nirvana Vinyl Re-Releases Coming

03/24/09 12:10pm

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

Four Nirvana albums will be re-released on vinyl this year.

The band's Bleach debut will be reissued by Sub Pop, which originally put out the album in 1989. Original Recordings Group will re-release 1991's Nevermind, 1993's In Utero and 1994's MTV Unplugged In New York on 180-gram, high-fidelity vinyl. Incesticide, a 1992 collection of unreleased early material, won't be part of the program.

"To our knowledge this is the first time Unplugged has ever come out on vinyl," Universal executive and ORG founder Monti Olson told Billboard.com. "They might have done a limited promotional thing, but I doubt it."

The vinyl re-releases will be sold through stores and online outlets, and Olson said the label plans to release "a lot of classic alternative music from the '80s and '90s" and "stuff that's more obscure and more popular" on 180-gram vinyl at a later date.

"There's not going to be any new Nirvana records," former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. "What there is, is video. There's a lot of video."

Novoselic reportedly wouldn't elaborate.