Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Kurt Cobain

Courtney Love slams Brad Pitt and says he 'pushed me a bridge too far' in movie feud

Courtney Love has doubled down on her claim against Brad Pitt that he allegedly had her fired from Fight Club.

Daily Mirror

Brad Pitt got Courtney Love 'fired from Fight Club' after she rejected his idea

Courtney Love has claimed that Brad Pitt interfered with her career after she was fired from her alleged role in Fight Club. She has said that Helena Bonham Carter was given the role once she had been given the boot

Daily Mirror

Courtney Love says she’s only ever known two ‘true musical geniuses’

‘Lana and Kurt are the only two true musical geniuses I’ve ever known,’ singer said

The Independent UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Carrickmore and Nirvana: Kurt Cobain’s Co Tyrone roots explained

The village of Carrickmore recently held an event to mark the link between Cobain and his Co Tyrone ancestry

Belfast Live

Remembering Nirvana’s intimate Glasgow gig that happened 31 years ago

It was the only time Nirvana ever graced Glasgow in the early 1990s, and while there is little photo or video evidence of the gig, it’s well remembered by many.

Glasgow Live

Chapter and verse: Author Andy Bollen on intersection of music, comedy and football

Andy Bollen is talking with boyish enthusiasm about his favourite subjects: music, comedy and football.

The National (Scotland)

Mimi Parker obituary

Mesmerising voice of Low, one of America’s most influential bands

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

John Lennon's signature round glasses set to be sold at auction

Also on sale will be a guitar played and smashed by Kurt Cobain and an Amy Winehouse hair topper

Wales Online

John Lennon’s glasses and Kurt Cobain guitar to headline blockbuster US auction

Over 1,500 instruments and artefacts owned and used by some of the world’s most famous artists will go under the hammer during the sale next week.

The Independent UK

‘Kurt was not in a good way’: backstage on Nirvana’s first – and only - Australian tour

Promoter Stephen ‘Pav’ Pavlovic spent weeks on tour with bands like Nirvana and Hole in the 1990s. ‘I hoarded everything,’ he says – and a new exhibition reveals all

The Guardian - AU

Why Gen X grew up to skew Republican

Turns out that in the fantasy world of Gen X films, it was a mistake to believe more of us related to the slackers

Salon

The Week on Stage: From Good to Peaky Blinders – The Redemption of Thomas Shelby

A guide to the week’s theatre

The Independent UK

Last Days at the Royal Opera House Linbury Studio review: this opera based on Gus van Sant’s film is exemplary

A meditation on a lost soul that could stand for all those who are driven to despair

Evening Standard

Last Days review – Leith’s opera is bleak and beautiful

Oliver Leith’s new work, based on Gus Van Sant’s fictionalised account of the final days of Kurt Cobain, keeps its audience at arm’s length, allowing its dense score to articulate and drive the drama

The Guardian - UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Last Days review: Extraordinary Kurt Cobain opera avoids all the clichés Nirvana fans might have predicted

Director Gus Van Sant gave permission for the script of his 2005 film ‘Last Days’ to be used as the inspiration for a new production about the Nirvana frontman. The result, staged at Linbury Theatre, is finely wrought and deserving of accolades

The Guardian - UK

‘Kurt Cobain was a walking paradox’: inside the opera about the star’s final days

It has little plot, the dialogue is mumbled, cereal bowls are a big theme, and a fast-talking cattle auctioneer plays his manager. We meet the team behind the Royal Opera House’s daring new show

Evening Standard

Royal Opera House swaps glitz for grunge in Gus Van Sant adaptation

As the Royal Opera House readies itself for a grunge adaptation, Richard Godwin asks, why are we so attached to old misconceptions about snobbery in the oeuvre?

The Guardian - UK

Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite: ‘It’s even easier for weirdos to find each other now than in the 90s’

The guitarist recalls how Arab Strap gave Scottish musicians a sense of national pride, the excess of his band’s early years and why he’s still fighting for independence• Read an exclusive extract of Stuart Braithwaite’s autobiography: ‘We had Iggy Pop on our side’

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

WEKU

A lawsuit over Nirvana's 'Nevermind' naked baby album cover is dismissed (again)

Spencer Elden accuses the band of profiting from "the lascivious nature of his image" in the photo taken when he was a baby. Now 31, he is appealing the judge's dismissal.

Evening Standard

Nirvana win lawsuit over 1991 Nevermind album cover

Nirvana have won a lawsuit against a man pictured on the cover of album Nevermind as a naked baby.

Daily Mirror

Nirvana album cover baby child abuse imagery case thrown out by judge

Spencer Elden, now 31, was photographed for the rock band's famous cover at the age of four months but claimed the picture constitutes "child pornography"

The Independent UK

Frances Bean Cobain admits she ‘wasn’t sure’ she’d live until age 30

‘Entering this new decade, I hope to stay soft no matter how hardening the world can feel at times,’ the artist wrote

The Guardian - UK

Cassie Workman: Aberdeen review – a voyage around Kurt Cobain

Exploring the late Nirvana star’s life and death, Workman delivers a darkly beautiful hour of spoken word

Daily Mirror

Liam Gallagher unrecognisable as he shows off his platinum blond hair makeover

Liam Gallagher - best known for having been in Oasis - posted a selfie on social media earlier this morning in which he teased that he had gone blond, with fans saying they hardly recognised him

Wales Online

Mark Steel asked people on Twitter what they knew about Newport and the response is brilliant

People shared their stories with the handful of famous faces that have graced the city over the years including rock stars and time lords

1 … 15 16 17 18

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.