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Watch Joseph Gordon-Levitt cover Nirvana's "Lithium"

by Tyler Munro

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is apparently a musician now and the other night during a show in Seattle he broke some made up rule by covering a Nirvana song.

Levitt was performing at his HitRecord show, which encourages people to perform and exhibit material in a bunch of different forms and to spread it, remix it and work with it on the spot, which explains why his cover of “Lithium” was prefaced by a pretty long speech about “making shit” and his enthusiastic encouragements for fans in the crowd to film and share the song.

Watch his performance up top.

How far you’ve come, Tommy Solomon.

In other Nirvana news, as Nevermind‘s 20th anniversary rapidly approaches, the fluff and expository pieces are pouring through the proverbial journalistic floodgates. The latest? According to the album’s producer Butch Vig, Kurt Cobain was a “pain in the ass” to work with. Um, duh? Apparently Cobain kept insisting that the guitars were less trebly (in retrospect, good call, Kurt). Vig also says that Cobain would go through rapid mood-swings, telling Rolling Stone that “[Cobain] would be totally engaged, then all of a sudden a light switch would go off and he’d go sit in the corner and completely disappear into himself. I didn’t really know how to deal with that.”