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“We never went into this band with any expectations, so we’ve never been disappointed… We just love making music together”: Teenage Fanclub on fame, perseverance and ice cream with Nirvana

Scotland's finest alt-rock exports on how DIY ethics, deep-cut influences, and reckoning with their own band's mortality have kept their unique brand of jangle pop alive for over three decades

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"Sometimes when you're scared and your adrenaline's pumping, you just start beating the shit out of your instrument": revisiting Nirvana's electrifying 1992 appearance on Saturday Night Live

Celebrating the equipment-smashing, French-kissing day Nirvana knocked Michael Jackson off the top of the charts

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Backstage at the final Kiss show: Only in the pyrotechnic new issue of Classic Rock

Also available: the special, limited edition Kiss bundle edition. Inside: Iron Maiden, Thin Lizzy, Nirvana, The Doors, Saxon, Peter Gabriel and more

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Addiction, Jurassic Park and a one-sided Nirvana feud: The story of Tool’s Sober

Tool’s cerebral single earned chart success and launched a career of prog metal trailblazing – despite its video being slammed by Kurt Cobain

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Dave Grohl raises thousands for charity with drawings that help fans get wasted and sneak hash into gigs

Nirvana and Foo Fighters hero Dave Grohl's beer pong and hash smuggling blueprints raise money for good causes

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Why I ❤️ Deep Purple's Burn, by Matt Sorum

Former Guns N' Roses drummer Matt Sorum on the speed of Ian Paice, why drums fell out of fashion, and how Nirvana brought them back

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"Beavis and Butt-Head liked it, that was always a big thing!” How Prong got massive for a minute in the 90s with Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck

Prong became one of the 90s' most unlikely metal success stories...even if the mainstream success didn't last long

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Two-faced federal prosecutors, a state prosecutor who needs to chill on Netflix, and an iconic naked baby.

Reason

14 best grunge tracks to test your hi-fi system

Dig out that flannel and put your hi-fi system through its paces with our playlist of favourite grunge test tracks.

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Federal court revives child sexual exploitation lawsuit against Nirvana over ‘Nevermind’ naked baby album cover

Spencer Elden alleges that he has suffered ‘permanent harm’ in appearing naked as a 4-month-old on the cover of the 1991 album ‘Nevermind.’

Chicago Sun-Times

"Every viewing of child pornography is a repetition of the victim’s abuse": US court reinstates right of 'Nevermind baby' Spencer Elden to sue Nirvana over iconic album sleeve

The man who tried to sue Nirvana over the iconic image on the cover of Nevermind wins the right to continue his lawsuit

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Federal court revives lawsuit against Nirvana over 1991 'Nevermind' naked baby album cover

A federal appeals court has revived a child sexual exploitation lawsuit filed by the man who appeared naked in a pool as a 4-month-old on the cover of Nirvana’s 1991 album “Nevermind.”

The Independent UK

Nirvana Nevermind Cover Baby's Child Pornography Lawsuit Isn't Barred by Statute of Limitations,

the Ninth Circuit rules, though expressly noting that "The question whether the Nevermind album cover meets the definition of child pornography is not at issue in this appeal."

Reason

Nirvana 'Nevermind' Lawsuit Revived in Appeal Over Cover Art

Legal tides ripple as a court breathes life into a controversial lawsuit over Nirvana's iconic 'Nevermind' cover, reigniting a storm of debate and scrutiny.

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"I finally understood that I was in the middle of a Nirvana reunion": revisiting the night that 'Sirvana' - Sir Paul McCartney and the surviving members of Nirvana - rocked Madison Square Garden for charity

On this day in 2012, a Nirvana reunion of sorts took place in New York City. Courtney Love was not amused

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Driven by an obsession and a devotion to music, John Brennan amassed a huge collection of rock star signatures - and now he's selling them off

John Brennan initially collected records, then slept out for concert tickets... but he had to get one step closer

Wallpaper

Contemporary photographers making great leaps are united in London show

‘From a Common Gesture’ at London’s 10 14 Gallery, curated by Wallpaper*, unites 11 contemporary photographers working at the forefront of their field

Guitar World

10 essential live rock and metal albums from the ’90s

The ’90s were a golden era for box office productions from Page & Plant and AC/DC, not to mention a certain era-defining acoustic set from Nirvana

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"Circus magazine said, 'If Lee's voice was any higher and raspier, his audience would consist exclusively of dogs and extraterrestrials": Watch Geddy Lee read from his memoir My Effin' Life onstage in Seattle with Nirvana's Krist Novoselic

Geddy Lee has a suggestion for you if you don't like his singing voice, and it's a pleasingly unfiltered suggestion

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"I never realised how funky Dave was!": Watch a jazz professor at elite music school Juilliard try to play Dave Grohl's drum parts on Nirvana classic In Bloom without having ever heard the song

Dave Grohl thought that no-one spotted his funk influences on Nevermind, but it turns out he was wrong

Guitar World

“Geordie was a true inventor of a massive sound that has influenced so damn many of us”: Killing Joke guitarist Geordie Walker has died, aged 64

Tributes pour in for the post-punk trailblazer whose influence was felt far and wide across rock and metal, with the likes of Metallica and Nirvana indebted to his vision for guitar

The Independent UK

Geordie Walker, Killing Joke’s pioneering guitarist and co-founder, dies aged 64

Guitarist joined the band in 1979 and, along with frontman Jaz Coleman, was their only sole constant member

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Killing Joke guitarist Geordie Walker dead at 64

Killing Joke’s Kevin ‘Geordie’ Walker, one of the most influential and respected guitarists of the post-punk era, has died

Louder

10 moments of genius from MTV Unplugged

As Nirvana’s iconic set turns 30, we pick out the ten best songs from the famous sessions

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“We knew we didn’t want to do an acoustic version of Teen Spirit, that would’ve been horrendously stupid”: Revisiting Nirvana’s iconic MTV Unplugged performance 30 years on

The grunge icons did the show their way - and it was one for the ages

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