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Apr 16th 2012, 17:50

By Zachary Swickey

Time and time again Twitter casually drops music news gems in our lap, and this time it concerns Dave Grohl being in the studio with some old chums: original Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic and producer Butch Vig.

The three music icons are said to be working on Grohl's in-the-works documentary on Sound City Studios – the place where Nirvana recorded their worshipped breakthrough effort Nevermind. And for those who don't recall, Vig is the man responsible for producing that album and making Cobain's guitar sound not only intelligible, but totally freaking awesome.

Vig let news slip of the little get-together on his Twitter account, writing, "The last 24 hours have been surreal! Had a great gig at the El Rey last night, and spent today recording with Dave, Krist and special guest!"

Unfortunately, we have no word on just who this "guest" might be. The trio also got together not very long ago when they all worked on the last Foo Fighter's album, 2011's Wasting Light, which was produced by Vig and featured Novoselic (who contributed bass and accordion on "I Should Have Known"). The Foo Fighters are also expected to begin work on their upcoming eighth studio album later this year.

Also, Vig is taking a break from being a production powerhouse to get back to his musical roots with his act Garbage. The band has reformed and is set to release Not Your Kind of People on May 14. The album will mark their first release since the 2005's Bleed Like Me.

Novoselic on the other hand has dabbled very little in music since the demise of Nirvana. His focus has been on US politics in recent years, leading to a book "Of Grunge and Government: Let's Fix This Broken Democracy."

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