Kurt Cobain

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Marianne Faithfull: ‘Every Record I Make Is A Trauma For Me’

January 31, 2025January 31, 2025 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments A Secret Life, Andrew Loog Oldham, Broken English, Island Records, Keith Richards, Kurt Cobain, Marianne Faithfull, Mick Jagger, RIP, The Rolling Stones

Revisit a 1995 interview with the late British pop legend

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Alternative Rock Rock 

Miss World: Courtney Love at 60

July 9, 2024July 9, 2024 Jim Sullivan 1 Comment 1964, 60th birthday, Celebrity Skin, Courtney Love, Eric Erlandson, Hole, Kurt, Kurt Cobain, Live Through This, Nirvana

Jim Sullivan revisits his wild encounters with the Hole frontwoman

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Steve Albini Discusses Nirvana’s In Utero

May 8, 2024May 9, 2024 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments Dave Grohl, In Utero, Krist Novoselic, Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, PJ Harvey, Rid Of Me, Steve Albini

Read an archived interview with the studio legend about his most successful job

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The Most Cake: Revisiting Hole’s Live Through This

April 13, 2024April 13, 2024 Dan Weiss 0 Comments 1994, 30th Anniversary, Asking For It, Courtney Love, Eric Erlandson, Geffen Records, Hole, Kristin Pfaff, Kurt Cobain, Live Through This, Miss World, Nirvana, Patty Schemel, Pretty on the Inside, Violet, Young Marble Giants

Looking back on 30 years of the band’s monumental second album

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Hard Rock Indie Rock Remembrance Rock 

Missing Kurt Cobain

April 5, 2024April 5, 2024 Ryan Maffei 0 Comments 30th Anniversary, Dave Grohl, King Buzzo, Krist Noveselic, Kurt Cobain, Montage of Heck, Nirvana, RIP, Seattle, The Melvins

30 years later, we are still picking up the pieces of his tragic demise

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Like Suicide: 30 Years of Soundgarden’s Superunknown

March 7, 2024March 7, 2024 Dan Weiss 0 Comments 1994, 30th Anniversary, AM, Beastie Boys, Ben Shepard, Black Hole Sun, Chris Cornell, Hole, Kim Thayil, Kurt Cobain, Madonna, Matt Cameron, My Wave, Nirvana, Soul Coughing, Soundgarden, Superunknown, Veruca Salt

Looking back on the celebrated Seattle band’s studio supernova

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Alternative Rock Rock 

Double Nickels on the Drums: Dave Grohl at 55

January 14, 2024February 19, 2024 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 55th Birthday, Dave Grohl, Krist Noveselic, Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, Pat Smear, Paul McCartney, Probot, Queens of the Stone Age, Them Crooked Vultures

Looking back at a driven and definitive rock star

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Michael Azerrad Amplifies His Nirvana Book

October 19, 2023October 19, 2023 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments Courtney Love, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, Kurt Cobain, Michael Azerrad, Nirvana, Our Band Could Be Your Life, Rolling Stone, The Amplified Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana

An interview with the author of Come As You Are

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Beatle Pop Rock 

John Lennon: Our Four Favorite Reissues

October 9, 2023October 9, 2023 Ron Hart 0 Comments 83rd Birthday, Elvis Costello, Joe Strummer, John Lennon, Klaus Voormann, Kurt Cobain, Patti Smith, Paul McCartney, R.E.M., Ringo Starr, Sean Lennon, Sonic Youth, Stephen Brodsky, The Beatles, Yoko Ono

Going through our stash for his 83rd birthday

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Happy 30th Birthday to Nirvana’s In Utero, King of the Toxic Follow-Ups

September 21, 2023 Ted Miller 0 Comments 1993, 30th Anniversary, Courtney Love, Dave Grohl, Heart-Shaped Box, In Utero, Krist Noveselic, Kurt Cobain, Nirvana

The trio’s other studio masterpiece took Steve Albini, feminism and the ugliest riffs they ever made to No. 1

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Music Journalism 

Dave Marsh Kicks Out The Jams

September 13, 2023September 13, 2023 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 0 Comments 2023, Alexandro Escovedo, Bruce Springsteen, Dave Marsh, Elvis Presley, Frank Zappa, Jimmy LaFave, Kick Out The Jams: Jibes Barbs Tributes & Rallying Cries from 35 Years of Music Writing, Kurt Cobain, Madonna, Patty Griffin, Simon & Schuster

The legendary scribe’s latest book is a love letter to long-form music criticism

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LISTEN: Award Winning Producer Reimagines Nirvana

October 6, 2022October 6, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2022, Come As You Are: Nirvana Reimagined as House and Techno, DJ Jonathan Hay, Fat Beats, House, Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, Techno

Jonathan Hay rewires Kurt Cobain and Co. for House and Techno

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There Go Our Heroes

April 5, 2022April 5, 2022 Angela Denk 6 Comments Alice in Chains, Andrew Wood, Andy Wood, Elliott Smith, Jeff Buckley, Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley, Mother Love Bone, Nirvana, Taylor Hawkins

From Andrew Wood to Taylor Hawkins, Generation X has experienced an insurmountable level of rock hero loss

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Alternative Rock Hard Rock Rock 

What The Storyteller Taught Me About Dave Grohl

February 23, 2022 Jen Maravegias 0 Comments Dave Grohl, Dey Street Books, Foo Fighters, Krist Novoselic, Kurt Cobain, Memoir, Nirvana, The Storyteller, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

You don’t have to be a Foo Fighters fan to appreciate the power of the Nirvana drummer’s bestselling memoir

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Oh Well, Whatever: ‘Nevermind’ at 30

September 23, 2021April 3, 2022 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments 1991, Breed, Dave Grohl, DGC, Garth Brooks, Geffen, In Bloom, Krist Noveselic, Kurt Cobain, Mariah Carey, MC Hammer, Nevermind, Nirvana, On a Plain, Polly, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Territorial Pissings

The breakout success of the second Nirvana album was both a gift and a curse for Kurt Cobain

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