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"It's like I'm sitting here playing Kurt's Gospel through his Nevermind rig – it's crazy, it sounds exactly the same": Proof that the lost Mosrite Kurt Cobain used to record most of Nirvana's breakthrough album is the key to its guitar sound

You won't believe how close this sounds – and there's no Fender required

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Girl power, timeless talents and questionable fashion - the music stars of the 90s that we'll worship forever

Ready to revisit the 90s? These stars captured the sound and the spirit of the decade

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"The future of music is not Taylor Swift." Monster Magnet's Dave Wyndorf shares his wisdom on AI, aliens and the state of rock'n'roll

Monster Magnet's space lord has a lot to say on rock'n'roll, the future and what it takes to become stoner rock royalty

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“I like being in total control, then I hooked up with Kurt Cobain and everything lost control.” Courtney Love on “battling Kurt's dammed demons” and pouring “25 years of repressed rage” into Hole's music

Courtney Love looks back on Hole's early days, and how her life changed after she “hooked up” with her future-husband, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain

Louder

This is the one London Fashion Week street style trend I kept seeing on repeat

Grunge all the way

Marie Claire

‘I love it when things get out of hand’: the return of outrageous 90s rockers the Jesus Lizard

Darkly comedic, frequently naked and with fans in Kurt Cobain and Henry Rollins, the quartet burned a bloodstained trail through the alt-rock scene. They explain how they’re staying dangerous after 26 years away

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30 Years Ago, One Legendary Rock Album Secretly Introduced a Bizarre Sci-Fi Villain

Beware Bokkus! Weezer's comeback tour features a strange sci-fi alien storyline. Here's its origin story.

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“When I encounter Kurt Cobain’s Sky Stang I, I'm evaluating it like a tech. Then I'll have a beer and go, ‘Did that just happen?!’” From fixing Lennon’s Framus to giving Prince's Cloud III a CAT scan – it's all in the life of an A-list guitar appraiser

In his work for the prestigious LA auction house, Julien’s, Mike Adams has gone from guitar tech to guitar detective

Guitar World

“We’ve got a new drummer, his name is Dave, he’s the best drummer in the world!”: the story of Dave Grohl's drums on Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

The drum part that introduced Nirvana and a drummer named Dave Grohl to the world was released on this day in 1991

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“When I heard Nirvana’s Live at Reading it became less about learning solos than putting the guitar in front of an amp and making it scream”: Fontaines D.C.’s Carlos O’Connell on playing Rory Gallagher’s Strat and why a spring reverb is the best overdrive

One half of the Fontaines D.C. six-string machine talks songwriting and influences, and admits that he, too, is a disciple of YouTube’s Kurt Cobain tone guru Aaron Rash

Guitar World

“Offset guitarscan be really clumsy, but that makes me approach them differently. I kept hitting the kill switch mid-solo, thinking, ‘Why is this here?!’” Samantha Fish on how Kurt Cobain turned her onto the Fender Jaguar

It was on the cover of Guitar World's April 2024 issue, a Fender Classic Player Jaguar Special HH, but what made blues ace Samantha Fish choose this over her SG for the cover shoot?

Guitar World

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Welcome to your new season staple

Evening Standard

Kurt’s Cologne is a Small Clone clone from PastFX that offers three decades of BBD-driven stereo chorus for Nirvana tones and more

Nevermind the vintage originals. This has switchable '70s, '80s and '90s modes, high and low cut switches, and an eight-way depth rotary dial to offer many variations on the theme

MusicRadar

“Charley was the coolest rock litterati bookworm to ever be lucky enough to know.” Music writer Charles R. Cross, author of definitive Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix and Heart biographies, dead at 67

The death of US music writer Charles R. Cross was confirmed by his family on August 9

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"A corporate jack-off music festival disguised as some kind of important cultural event for the young generation": The grimy legacy of Woodstock 1994

The 25th anniversary edition of the Woodstock Festival was supposed to revive memories of the original. It'll be remembered for mud.

What Hi-Fi?

10 iconic albums celebrating their 30th anniversary this year

1994 was a sublime twelve months for music, and we're celebrating the 30th anniversary of some of the year's finest releases.

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“I never treated bands like rock stars, I treated them as people.” Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and the stories behind some of grunge's most iconic images

Legendary photographer Steve Gullick shares his memories of shooting Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love, Eddie Vedder and more

Guitar World

The 5 most famous acoustic guitars of all time – and how Willie Nelson's Trigger, Cobain's Martin D-18E became guitar icons

We take a deep dive into the most recognizable flat tops ever made and the reasons they became so famous

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“Some of the most important and iconic instruments of the last 70 years”: Jim Irsay's world-famous collection is set to go on public display – showcasing iconic guitars played by Kurt Cobain, Jerry Garcia and David Gilmour

The best bits of Irsay's revered guitar collection will be around for one day only, at the grand opening of a year-long exhibit that will explore “how guitars have impacted popular music genres including jazz, country, folk, and especially rock and roll”

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“There are choruses Kurt Cobain would have been proud to write, vocal harmonies that could be Teenage Fanclub at their most sublime.” Dublin's next break-out band, Thumper, preview their killer new album at thrilling London show

Dublin psych-pop crew warm up for Latitude festival with joyous set at The George Tavern in East London

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“I’m like, ‘I don’t know, man! I’m in Arizona!’” In 1993, Kurt Cobain asked Sepultura man Max Cavalera where to get heroin in Brazil

When trying to score drugs at a South American festival, Nirvana’s leader turned to what he believed to be a local expert

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“There I was standing right in front, stoned in amazement.” Ex-Fear Factory frontman Burton C. Bell explains why his face is on the sleeve of Nirvana's final Sub Pop single

If you study the sleeve artwork for Nirvana's 1990 single Sliver closely, you'll spot a young Burton C. Bell

Metal Hammer

This easy listening version of Tool’s Sober is oddly excellent

Prog metal + a horn section = a winning combination, apparently

Guitar World

“I sourced all the original microphones that were used on the record”: This Nirvana tone chaser has spent years learning how to nail Kurt Cobain's guitar sound – now he’s released his research in the form of The Utero Sessions IR Pack

The no-expenses-spared pack lets players harness the sound of Cobain's famed In Utero tone “without touching a single physical amp”

MusicRadar

“You can now have the sound of your favorite Nirvana record all in the computer without touching a single physical amp”: Kurt Cobain tone guru Aaron Rash releases The Utero Sessions IR Pack

After two years of extensive research, YouTuber and Nirvana tone expert Aaron Rash unveils his IR pack so you can nail the In Utero tones without losing your shirt on the vintage market

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