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Jackie Farry, tour manager, Nirvana associate and nanny to Frances Bean Cobain, dies aged 58

Tour manager and friend of Kurt Cobain had a love for music ‘matched only by her sharp wit, humour and magnetic personality’, her friend said

The Independent UK

“He was a great guitar player. He’s not looking at what he’s playing, so obviously he really knows the instrument”: Which grunge icon could Joe Satriani be talking about?

Plus, he highlights the “only problem” with Yngwie Malmsteen

MusicRadar

“He was a great guitar player. He’s not looking at what he’s playing, he really knows the instrument”: Joe Satriani says Kurt Cobain was an underrated guitar hero

Joe Satriani knows a thing or two about great guitarists –and he says the Nirvana frontman was one of them

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“The four-chord pattern riff is unoriginal but the dynamic contrasts add to the potency of one of the best guitar riffs of the ’90s”: Nirvana track named the best guitar riff of all time by surprising new study – which leaves out some huge hits

Many of the big hitters feature, but not where you’d expect them to be – and there are some notable absences, too

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

Best of 2024: 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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“Kurt was sitting in the bathtub with a Walkman on, listening to the song, and when the tape ended, he kissed me and said, 'Oh, finally, now I don't have to be the only songwriter in the band!'”: Dave Grohl's evolution as a songwriter

Best of 2024: “I was in a band with one of the greatest songwriters of our generation, so I didn’t really want to rock the boat”

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“You could describe it as an early ‘boutique’ pedal company… but its products were made in a damp, rat-infested basement”: Loved by Nuno Bettencourt, Jeff Beck and Kurt Cobain, the ProCo Rat graduated from dank basements to the world’s biggest albums

How the Rat changed the world of distortion for guitarists of all stripes, from hard rockers and metalheads to jazz cats, too

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“The massive guitar sound that sparked an entire generation has been completely and faithfully captured in stunning detail”: Nirvana tone guru Aaron Rash releases The Nevermind Sessions IR bundle, and promises a sound “identical” to Kurt Cobain’s

If you’ve been trying to nail the Smells Like Teen Spirit tone and found there was always something in the way, maybe this is the secret sauce you’ve been waiting for

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“I can’t stop reading it, cos I’m a hypochondriac it affects me, makes me want to cut my nose off”: Kurt Cobain on the book he was obsessed with and how it inspired a Nirvana classic

The 1985 novel that rarely left the Nirvana frontman’s pocket and became the basis for one of In Utero’s heaviest tracks

Louder

“I don’t believe he had any idea how rare it was before he bought it”: Kurt Cobain's $6m MTV Unplugged Martin was a historic guitar even before its Nirvana association, but a mod inspired by one of his guitar heroes made it one of a kind

According to Nirvana guitar tech Earnie Bailey, Cobain was far from a vintage guitar fiend, and had no qualms with making his already weird D-18E even more unusual

Guitar World

"What are you 'gonna do when you run out of all the lyrics Kurt left for you?": Watch Courtney Love take down a disgruntled sexist Nirvana fan who suggested she stole lyrics from Kurt Cobain after his death to use in her own band

Hole frontwoman Courtney Love keeps her cool when a fiery Nirvana fan calls in to ask some rather inappropriate, misogynistic questions on the Howard Stern show

Louder

Kim Deal on addiction, Pixies and going solo: ‘It’s nice I lasted long enough to contemplate the past’

INTERVIEW: The Pixies bass player and Breeders frontwoman is an icon of the 1980s and 1990s alt-rock scene. As she releases her first solo album at the age of 63 she talks to Annabel Nugent about getting clean, her tricky relationship with Black Francis and why Kamala Harris lost the…

The Independent UK

“Kurt ended up giving me this rad guitar!”: Foo Fighters’ Pat Smear recalls how his ‘good’ guitar wasn’t good enough for Nirvana

He heard somebody say: “We can’t let him on stage!”

MusicRadar

“We’re doing my first-ever gig with Nirvana on SNL. What I didn’t know was there was a discussion about my guitar like, ‘No, we can’t let him on stage’”: Pat Smear’s first Nirvana appearance almost didn’t happen – because of his guitar

Smear had bought a 1982 Charvel when he was playing with Nina Hagen – but the guitar didn't quite impress the Nirvana troupe

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“We knew we didn’t want to do an acoustic version of Teen Spirit, that would’ve been horrendously stupid”: The story of Nirvana's seminal MTV Unplugged set

Resisting network pressure to simply play the hits, Kurt Cobain, Pat Smear, Krist Novoselic, and Dave Grohl pulled together a remarkable and eclectic set that served as the haunting apex of Nirvana's final chapter

The Independent UK

13 hit songs hated by the musicians who wrote them

THE LIST: We all have those tunes that just get under our skin, but what happens when it’s one you came up with in the first place? Kevin E G Perry takes a look at artists who’ve come to loathe their own creations

MusicRadar

“I was in a band with one of the greatest songwriters of our generation, so I didn’t really want to rock the boat”

The Conversation

The 27 Club isn’t true, but it is real − a sociologist explains why myths endure and how they shape reality

There’s a certain allure to the notion that some of the world’s brightest stars burn out at the age of 27. The so-called 27 Club has captivated the public imagination for half a century. Its members include legendary musicians Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse.…

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The Independent UK

Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged show is a hallowed chapter of Kurt Cobain’s history – it almost never happened

PLAYBACK: The Seattle grunge band performed on MTV Unplugged in a funereal setting of lit candles and white lilies. Mark Beaumont chronicles the troubled days leading up to the show, during which Kurt Cobain faced money-minded executives, a nervous fire marshal – and his inner demons

The Guardian - UK

Ghostly returns, cursed cheese sales and gothic maths – take the Thursday quiz

Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday, with a bit of Halloween thrown in

Crikey

David Crisafulli and LNP take Queensland

The LNP is on track to take at least 48 seats in Queensland after its state election victory over the weekend, and the RBA’s November meeting could ‘slam the door’ on the possibility of a 2024 rate cut.

Latin Times

Helen Mirren Is 'So Sad' Kurt Cobain Is Dead Because He Never Got to Experience the Magic of GPS: It's 'The Most Wonderful Thing'

Revered actress Helen Mirren waxed poetic about GPS and lamented that Kurt Cobain will never be able to experience it.

MusicRadar

“He never got to see GPS”: Helen Mirren feels “sad” for Kurt Cobain, but not for the reason you might expect

Helen Mirren feels sad Kurt Cobain never saw GPS

The Guardian - UK

Helen Mirren: it’s so sad Kurt Cobain died before GPS was invented

The Oscar-winning actor has made the latest in a series of references to the Nirvana frontman and the technological advances he didn’t live to see

The Independent UK

Grief is complex – but why did so many people target Liam Payne’s ex after his death?

COMMENT: In the wake of the One Direction star’s tragic death, Payne’s former partner Maya Henry has been caught in a maelstrom of toxic public discourse, writes Olivia Petter

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