Ain’t No Wildfire Benefit Like A Wildfire Benefit That’s Also A Hardcore Show

Nirvana played a reunion show -- or, you know, "Nirvana" played a "reunion" show. You saw that, right? A couple of weeks ago, the band's surviving members put in a surprise appearance at FireAid, the biggest of the many recent fundraisers for victims of the Los Angeles wildfires. (They also played with Post Malone at the SNL 50th-anniversary concert, but that's not what we're talking about here today.) At FireAid, Nirvana played a four-song set with four different guest bandleaders. It was a cool thing to do, and I'm sure the people in the Kia Forum that night felt like they were witnessing history. But nobody was going to get elbowed in the throat when Joan Jett sang "Territorial Pissings." If you were looking for that kind of catharsis, you would have to look elsewhere.