Nick Gillespie Interviews Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic About His Alternative Politics

Krist Novoselic
is best known as the co-founder and bassist of Nirvana, one of the
most influential music groups of the past quarter century. The
release of the band’s albums Bleach, Nevermind, and In
Utero not only mainstreamed what became known as grunge but
helped to forever end what was once known as the mainstream. After
Nirvana it seems there is only alternative music and alternative
culture, a transformation that is both liberating and
anxiety-producing.

In 2004, Novoselic published
Of Grunge and Government: Let’s Fix This Broken
Democracy (Akashic), and these days he’s chairman of
FairVote, a nonprofit that lobbies for electoral reform such as
instant runoffs and proportional voting. After serving as chairman
of his county Democratic committee for several years and supporting
Barack Obama early on, he has broken with the Democratic Party, in
part because “it’s a top-down structure” impervious to change from
the grassroots.

Novoselic sat down Reason TV’s Nick Gillespie in May to talk
about politics, the Grange, Ron Paul and more.

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