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Kurt Cobain showed up to Nirvana's In Utero sessions with a chunk of the guitar Steve Albini smashed at Big Black's final show

Steve Albini reveals that Nirvana's Kurt Cobain owned a special memento from Big Black's farewell performance in Seattle

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How Trompe le Monde proved that like most meaningful things, Pixies were simply before their time

Released the day before Nevermind, Pixies' fourth album helped set a blueprint for alternative music to come – not that they ever really got the credit for it

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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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Steve Albini recalls the secrecy around the Nirvana In Utero sessions: "I had to do everything I could to keep it under wraps to make sure that we didn’t get overrun by fans and the added nonsense"

He also reveals a young Cobain had kept a piece of the guitar he saw Albini smash onstage at Big Black's farewell gig in 1987

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How Dave Grohl initiated a Nirvana reunion of sorts on Foo Fighters’ Wasting Light

"The three of us together sitting in front of speakers and a mixing desk, that hasn’t happened in 20 years": How Dave Grohl got Butch Vig and Krist Novoselic involved in Foo Fighter’s seventh record

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Kurt Cobain’s smashed guitar sells for over $900,000

A guitar smashed by Nirvana's Kurt Cobain has fetched $902,010 at auction, several times its original estimate.

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Kurt Cobain’s smashed guitar from Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ era fetches nearly $600,000

A Fender Stratocaster guitar smashed by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain has sold for nearly $600,000 at auction — more than 10 times what it was expected to go for.

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A battered guitar which Nirvana's Kurt Cobain gifted to his friend Mark Lanegan sells at auction for almost $600,000

Having parted with $596,900, an anonymous bidder is now the proud owner of a guitar once owned by Kurt Cobain

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Kurt Cobain's broken guitar sells for nearly $600,000

The Nirvana frontman was known for smashing guitars during performances and in the studio. This one includes messages to his old friend, Mark Lanegan of the Screaming Trees.

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Is this the most expensive smashed guitar ever sold? Kurt Cobain’s stage-smashed Fender Stratocaster sells at auction for $600,000 – 10 times its initial estimate

The instrument, signed by all three members of Nirvana, er, smashed expectations in the recent sale

Guitar World

A beginner's guide to grunge in five essential albums

Teenage angst really did pay off well: five albums that define grunge's story, from the brilliant beginning to the bitter end

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From subtle neutrals to pops of bright colour - Manchester's best dressed embrace the warmer weather

Fashion lovers show off their fresh Spring style

Manchester Evening News

Courtney Love reveals alternate lyrics Kurt Cobain wrote for Nirvana’s biggest hit

Love said the final version of ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ ended up a ‘different song’ than the original demo

The Independent UK

Courtney Love shares Kurt Cobain's unpublished scrapped lyrics for Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit

Courtney Love reveals unused lyrics written in Kurt Cobain's journal that were originally intended for Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit

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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

Total Film

Yellowjackets season 2 episode 7 review and recap: "We're itching to get to the point"

As episode 7 kicks off, morale in the wilderness has never been lower. The girls are still starving, and Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) is – understandably – at rock bottom, traumatized in the wake of her miscarriage and eschewing all attempts to help her. Is this slightly undermined by a needle…

The Guardian - UK

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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

MusicRadar

"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

The Independent UK

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

Louder

Kenny Wayne Shepherd: the soundtrack of my life

Blues giant Kenny Wayne Shepherd picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and recalls the life-changing show he went to as a three-year-old

Guitar World

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

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