"I don't want to criticize the dead and all," Lloyd Boisdore says, with just a trace of exasperation, "but it pisses me off."

Boisdore, bassist, vocalist and visionary for Evil Nurse Sheila!, sits at a table in his band's ad hoc war room, a rustic shell of an apartment above a CBD diner, as he zeroes in on a source of recent irritation.

"Nirvana doesn't have a clue, man. What's that line? He meets the man who sold the world, and he says, 'I thought you were dead,' or whatever. And he go...