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Billy Corgan has one good thing to say about the music industry in 2023: "The gatekeepers are dead and now people are figuring out who the real bands are"

Billy Corgan is happy that the "real OG bands" are finally getting the attention they deserve

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Watch Dave Grohl's first ever performance with Nirvana in this rare footage from 1990

Dave Grohl played live with Nirvana for the first time in October 1990: watch rare footage of the Olympia, WA gig

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Billy Corgan says Kurt Cobain was "the most talented guy of our generation" and reveals he cried when Cobain died because he'd "lost his greatest opponent"

Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan discusses the death of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain and admits he cried when Cobain died

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Billy Corgan: "When Kurt died, I cried because I lost my greatest opponent"

“I want the Pumpkins standing on the top of the heap of our generation,” Corgan said in a new interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music. “If that means I got to write 800 songs to do it, I’ll do it"

MusicRadar

Major TV channel set to shut down for good after 36 years on air

MTV News is set to close down after 36 years due to staff cuts at Paramount, which owns the channel - and people are not happy about it

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After nearly four decades, MTV News is no more

Mr. President, the world is dying to know. Is it boxers or briefs?

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How PJ Harvey’s raw, violent, vengeful masterpiece Rid Of Me inspired Nirvana and set hearts ablaze among a new generation of fearless female musicians

PJ Harvey’s savage, soul-baring second album Rid Of Me is 30 years old. Its howls of pain, rage and revenge now sound more vital than ever

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The time Nirvana got in a food fight with Sonic Youth (and then someone went and urinated in Ride’s champagne bucket)

It wasn't all doom and gloom in camp Nirvana – the band found time for some "real, sincere fun" along the way too

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"This is one of the best amps I've ever played" – new video investigates the Fender Twin Reverb Kurt Cobain used on Nirvana's Bleach

Jack Endino's modded Fender amp was Cobain's go-to for Nirvana's debut album

MusicRadar

Rita Lee death: Music world mourns Brazil’s ‘Queen of Rock’ who has died aged 75

The founder of rock band Os Mutantes reputedly had fans in Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain and King Charles

The Independent UK

How Gen Z fell for and reinvented quiet-loud indie rock

Ed Power finds out why bands such as HotWax and Bleach Lab are so inspired by the sound of Pixies, Hole and Nirvana

The Independent UK

Rita Lee, Brazil’s undisputed Queen of Rock, dies aged 75

Tributes pour in for founder of Os Mutantes, who sardonically named her tumour after far-right president Jair Bolsonaro

The Guardian - US

The 5 Nirvana basslines you need to hear

From Smells Like Teen Spirit to About a Girl, here are Krist Novoselic’s five greatest basslines

Guitar World

A Kurt Cobain stage-smashed Fender Stratocaster is going up for auction

Signed by all three members of Nirvana, the Strat also features a note from Cobain addressed to the Screaming Trees' Mark Lanegan

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AFP

Sells like teen spirit? Cobain guitar up for auction

Gardena (United States) (AFP) - A guitar smashed on stage by Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain is going under the hammer later this month in the United States.

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That time Nirvana destroyed everything in sight and then set their own tour bus on fire

Smells Like White Spirit: Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain had lofty ideas about smashing the rock'n'roll cliches that came before him – but that wasn't all he ended up smashing

Louder

There's a version of Hole's Celebrity Skin featuring AI vocals from Kurt Cobain and the future is gonna be really messy

The future is coming and it's extremely complicated

The Guardian - UK

Soft power: cardigans become male status symbol as sales soar

Celebrities and TV characters are flexing their muscles in non-threatening cosy knitwear

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Daily Mirror

Kurt Cobain's suicide note and a conflict of interest 'prove the icon was MURDERED'

An award-winning author is calling for the case of Kurt Cobain's death to be reopened after claiming he has proof it was 'scientifically impossible' the singer died by suicide

Guitar World

Paul McCartney: “Somebody whispered to me ‘That’s Nirvana. You’re Kurt.’ I couldn’t believe it”

Bassist Krist Novoselic revisits the time the ex-Beatle fronted a Nirvana reunion gig

AFP

Legendary UK guitar amp maker agrees Swedish takeover

London (AFP) - Britain's Marshall Amplification, legendary maker of guitar amps used by rock icons including Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain, agreed Thursday to a takeover from Swedish speaker giant Zound Industries.

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When Aerosmith's Steven Tyler offered to help Nirvana's Kurt Cobain kick heroin, Cobain's response was savage: "This guy didn't have to die," Tyler later maintained

Aerosmith's Steven Tyler knows only too well the appeal, and consequences, of taking heroin, which is why he offered to help Kurt Cobain kick his habit

Louder

Queen's Brian May reveals his favourite guitarists of all time

Brian May names his favourite guitar players, and shares love for Nirvana's Kurt Cobain for "some of the greatest guitar music of all time"

Daily Mirror

Courtney Love urged to 'find Kurt Cobain's killers' as author believes he was murdered

An award-winning author and filmmaker has claimed Kurt Cobain was murdered and has offered his widow Courtney Love a lie detector test to 'clear her name'

Louder

Torture. Incest. Voyeurism. Why Pixies' Surfer Rosa is the weirdest and most influential alt. rock album of the '80s

Nirvana's Kurt Cobain admitted it, but pretty much every single alt. rock band of the past 35 years has 'borrowed' from Pixies 1988 masterpiece Surfer Rosa

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