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Blink-182 Sold 15 Million Copies Of That Album, The Nurse On The Cover Has Had A Wild 27 Years Since

Enema of the State came out in 1999, sold 15 million copies and made Blink-182 one of the biggest bands on the planet. The woman on the cover tried to become a kindergarten teacher the same year it dropped. She is now in her 50s, tattooed, on OnlyFans and in…

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Kathy Griffin claims 'former friend' Dave Grohl ignored her at airport after Donald Trump photoshoot

Kathy Griffin said she and Dave Grohl "used to be kind of friendly" before her controversial May 2017 Trump-head photoshoot.

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If You Can Get 20/24 Of These Lyrics Right, You’re A True Music Fan

Do you really know your favorite songs by heart? ❤️It’s easy to sing along when the music is playing, but what happens when a few key words disappear? In this quiz, you’ll get famous lyrics with blanks to fill in, and it’s up to you to remember what comes next.…

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"Fun, feisty, fast and furious. Grunge with a punk-metal heart." L7's Bricks Are Heavy - A breath of fresh air in a scene that quickly became stale

Pretend We’re Dead might be Bricks Are Heavy's best-known track, but Shitlist, Everglade and Wargasm proved L7 were canny songwriters.

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Gary Lightbody praises Belfast’s thriving music scene ahead of Fleadh

The Snow Patrol frontman said that despite travelling the world playing music, he has always felt the call back to Northern Ireland.

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"She eyes me like a Pisces when I am weak." The story behind Nirvana's darkest and most disturbing love song, Heart-Shaped Box

How Courtney Love and Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon provided inspiration for one of the greatest songs of the grunge era

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"I would go, I'll take Nirvana and Soundgarden and you can have Limp Bizkit and Korn." Melvins frontman Buzz Osborne loves annoying Mike Patton by blaming Faith No More's vocalist for inspiring the birth of nu metal

Want to wind up Mike Patton? Here's one way guaranteed to get his goat

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Pixies declare Dave Grohl was ‘right’ about their ‘perfect’ album

The band’s guitarist and drummer have endorsed Dave Grohl’s glowing praise for Surfer Rosa while also sharing an update on their plans to write more music later this year.

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"The performance racked up over 25,000 viewer complaints as middle England soiled its collective pants." 10 times rock bands totally ruined Top Of The Pops

From Nirvana refusing to mime properly to Manic Street Preachers inadvertently sparking IRA hysteria, Top Of The Pops hosted some unforgettable moments for rock bands

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“Kurt would always say, ‘I’m gonna get a Chet Atkins.’ But he never did. It wasn’t until he died that I went and looked at one”: Courtney Love refused to turn Celebrity Skin into “a grieving widow’s memoir” – but she paid tribute with the gear she played

With Celebrity Skin, Love shifted Hole's musical direction and created their final opus, in the midst of great tragedy

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‘Unchained Melody makes me want to live out my Swayze fantasies’: Gary Jarman’s honest playlist

The Cribs man had a youthful Bee Gees obsession and loves one particular 80s power ballad. But which song does he say is too rude for his funeral?

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80 Memes About Life In The 1990s That Might Make You Feel Like You Went Through A Time Machine (New Pics)

The 1990s was a magical time. Whether you were in elementary school, college, or having your first kid during that decade, looking back on it should still fill you with nostalgia. So if you're interested in experiencing a blast from the past, here's a list of '90s memes that might…

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Nirvana and Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl says Kurt Cobain would've loved this new anime about gay girls

Nirvana's song Breed is the opening tune for a beloved yuri series' anime

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‘I was there!’ Writers remember legendary gigs by Beyoncé, Brian Wilson, Britney, Oasis, Daft Punk and more

What’s it like to catch a gig so great it goes down in history? Our writers relive incredible performances by everyone from Amy Winehouse at the North Sea jazz festival to Kanye West at Glastonbury

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"I thought we sounded great, then I heard the recording. I was mortified!" The story behind Foo Fighters' secret first show

"I remember it being such a huge relief that we just made it to the end"

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“We’ve got a new drummer, his name is Dave, he’s the best drummer in the world!”: How Dave Grohl delivered the incredible Smells Like Teen Spirit drum track

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

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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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“Oh God, it’s hard to listen to.” The story behind Nirvana’s final song, You Know You’re Right

On January 30, 1994, Nirvana entered the studio for the last time. The song the trio taped that day would become the subject of a bitter legal battle

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"Let’s not be grunge. Let’s be more like the Beach Boys. But loud." How Weezer's Rivers Cuomo wrote the perfect power-pop song but almost shelved it

Producer Ric Ocasek convinced the Weezer frontman to include the song Buddy Holly on the band's debut album

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10 cruelly over-looked alt. rock albums from 1996 that should have been massive in a fair and just world

Thirty years on, a salute to 10 brilliant records from 1996 that deserved better

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"Music is always interesting when no one knows where the hell it came from." Steve Coogan on the game-changing impact of Nirvana and The Smiths, and why he loves both bands

"When Nirvana released Nevermind, that just redefined everything"

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When Aerosmith's Steven Tyler offered to help Kurt Cobain kick heroin, the response from Nirvana's frontman was savage

Aerosmith's Steven Tyler offered to help Kurt Cobain kick his habit, got verbally slapped down

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Revisiting the seven weeks in 1991 that changed music history forever

The 80s weren’t dead and the 90s hadn’t really begun. This is the story of how seven weeks of summer in 1991 belonged to rock (and not just grunge)

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“We started talking about Black Sabbath, and Buzz goes, ‘You know they did this thing called drop D.’ We said, ‘What’s that?’” Kim Thayil on how Soundgarden took rock guitar into the superunknown – and the unfinished Chris Cornell tapes

With the Soundgarden guitarist‘s memoir, A Screaming Life, out now, he unpacks the story behind one of the most influential rock bands of the ’90s

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"By the time you get to the end, it's like, Okay, that's a classic." Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan recalls the first time he heard Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit

The night that Butch Vig played Billy Corgan an unreleased cassette of Nirvana's Nevermind album

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