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The Latest Breaking News from Kurt Cobain

Watch ten rock stars from the 90s in their earlier bands

Warning: contains Tom Morello playing with a Michael Bolton lookalike

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50 Images That Are So Dope, You Could Slap Them On The Cover Of Music Albums

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Nevermind the other festive guitar deals, the iconic Kurt Cobain Jag-Stang has 20% off at Fender

As well as slashing the price of the legendary offset, Fender is also heavily discounting everything from the Paranormal range to the Sonic series, Acoustasonics and Players

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10 essential live rock and metal albums from the ’90s

The ’90s were a golden era for box office productions from Page & Plant and AC/DC, not to mention a certain era-defining acoustic set from Nirvana

Guitar World

From Kurt to Elvis, JFK and more, what movies did stars see just before they died?

For Franz Kafka, it was The Kid. For Stanley Kubrick, it was the trailer to Eyes Wide Shut. But what about Cobain, Presley and Kennedy? Artist Stanley Schtinter talks us through his revelatory new project

The Guardian - UK

Geordie Walker, Killing Joke’s pioneering guitarist and co-founder, dies aged 64

Guitarist joined the band in 1979 and, along with frontman Jaz Coleman, was their only sole constant member

The Independent UK

10 moments of genius from MTV Unplugged

As Nirvana’s iconic set turns 30, we pick out the ten best songs from the famous sessions

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“We knew we didn’t want to do an acoustic version of Teen Spirit, that would’ve been horrendously stupid”: Revisiting Nirvana’s iconic MTV Unplugged performance 30 years on

The grunge icons did the show their way - and it was one for the ages

Louder

10 cover versions that are way more popular than the originals (according to Spotify)

The Beatles, Bowie, Bob Dylan and Stevie Wonder have all seen covers of their songs become more popular than the original version

Louder

"Even before we got to the day of the show, there was a ‘concern’… a concern with Liam" – the story behind the farce and the glory of Oasis’s infamous 1996 MTV Unplugged performance

Riding high after playing to 250,000 people at Knebworth, Oasis set about rehearsing for a very different kind of show – an intimate MTV Unplugged performance from the Royal Festival Hall. But within days, it was clear all was not going to plan…

MusicRadar

Kurt Cobain's 'Skystang I' Fender Mustang guitar fails to eclipse his record-breaking Competition Stripe model at auction

But it still fetched over $1.5million

MusicRadar

The 17 most expensive guitars of all time

Fenders owned by Eric Clapton and Bob Dylan, Martins belonging to Kurt Cobain and David Gilmour, and one independently made axe headline the list of most profitable guitars sold at auction

Guitar World

Kurt Cobain guitars now account for 3 of the top 10 most expensive guitars sold at auction as the ‘Sky Stang I’ Fender Mustang used in Nirvana’s final performance sells for $1.5 million

The value of Kurt Cobain-associated guitar sales on the list now more than doubles that of his nearest competitor, David Gilmour

Guitar World

Eric Clapton’s 1964 ‘The Fool’ Gibson SG sells at auction for a record $1.27 million

The Fool and your money is easily parted as the iconic double-cut is now the most expensive of Clapton's guitars ever to be sold at auction, and is now owned by The Jim Irsay Collection

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Eric Clapton’s psychedelic ‘Fool’ guitar sells for more than £1m at auction

The 1964 Gibson SG electric guitar sold for 1,270,000 dollars.

Metal Hammer

The guitar Kurt Cobain played at Nirvana's last show is up for auction, with an estimated price-tag of two million dollars

If the thought of owning Kurt Cobain's Fender Mustang guitar, aka 'Sky-Stang I', appeals, you might want to set two million dollars aside this weekend

Louder

"We had an A&R person at Geffen saying, 'You guys can be the Pink Floyd of the underground.' I was, like, No, we can’t." Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore remembers Nirvana and 'The Year That Punk Broke'

Thurston Moore: "When I was putting this book together my agent basically said, Give me your Kurt chapter"

Metal Hammer

“We were the same side of the coin – we were just different coins." Eddie Vedder on Kurt Cobain, and the time they slow danced together

The Pearl Jam frontman reflects on his complex relationship with Kurt Cobain

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Watch the the hilariously weird moment that Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers played a trumpet solo with Nirvana

Watch the Red Hot Chili Peppers man lend his brass skills to Smells Like Teen Spirit at a festival in Brazil in 1993

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Kurt Cobain’s Last Show Guitar To Fetch $1-2 Million At Auction

The Fender Mustang played by Cobain before his death is set to go under the hammer, along with other iconic rock memorabilia.

Metal Hammer

"John Lennon was definitely my favourite Beatle... Paul McCartney embarrasses me:" Why The Beatles meant so much to Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, and changed his life forever

Dave Grohl might be good friends with Paul McCartney, but for Kurt Cobain, John Lennon was the Beatle who truly mattered, or so he claimed

Guitar World

The electric guitar shredded itself to death in the ‘80s. It had to start over, but the ‘90s grunge revolution didn‘t just change the face of guitar playing – it changed the world

Guitar World presents a grunge guitar guide to the ‘90s, the decade when Seattle became the epicenter of the musical universe, and resurrected the electric guitar with a raw, dirty sound that gave birth to a whole new generation of guitar players

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Someone Check On The ‘90s Kids Bc Kurt Cobain’s Daughter & Tony Hawk’s Son Just Got Married

Even the celebrant was a ‘90s icon.

The Independent UK

Kurt Cobain’s daughter Frances Bean marries Tony Hawk’s son Riley, and fans are feeling nostalgic

‘That’s a match made in heaven,’ says fan

The Guardian - UK

Haters gonna hate … but stars like Taylor Swift can help to make literature pop

I teach the megastar’s lyrics. Adding contemporary material to school curriculums won’t dumb down – it will inspire, says academic Elly McCausland

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