Sahara Hotnights Began As A Cover Band

Despite the globe-hopping and Spin parties, Sahara Hotnights guitarist Jennie Asplund is still refreshingly wide-eyed about Sahara Hotnights’ rise from cover band to cover girls. “The thing that got us into rock music was Nirvana,” she tells the Cleveland Scene. “We started out playing covers — a lot of Nirvana, then Pearl Jam, Green Day. We wanted to be a cool grunge band. We had fun.” The full story at clevescene.com has since been removed.