The Latest Breaking News from Kurt Cobain

According to Nirvana guitar tech Earnie Bailey, Cobain was far from a vintage guitar fiend, and had no qualms with making his already weird D-18E even more unusual

Hole frontwoman Courtney Love keeps her cool when a fiery Nirvana fan calls in to ask some rather inappropriate, misogynistic questions on the Howard Stern show

THE LIST: We all have those tunes that just get under our skin, but what happens when it’s one you came up with in the first place? Kevin E G Perry and Roisin O’Connor take a look at artists who’ve come to loathe their own creations

“I was in a band with one of the greatest songwriters of our generation, so I didn’t really want to rock the boat”

There’s a certain allure to the notion that some of the world’s brightest stars burn out at the age of 27. The so-called 27 Club has captivated the public imagination for half a century. Its members include legendary musicians Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse.…

PLAYBACK: The Seattle grunge band performed on MTV Unplugged in a funereal setting of lit candles and white lilies. Mark Beaumont chronicles the troubled days leading up to the show, during which Kurt Cobain faced money-minded executives, a nervous fire marshal – and his inner demons

Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday, with a bit of Halloween thrown in

Revered actress Helen Mirren waxed poetic about GPS and lamented that Kurt Cobain will never be able to experience it.

Helen Mirren feels sad Kurt Cobain never saw GPS