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The Latest Breaking News from Kurt Cobain

Ahead of Oasis' tour, a look at famous and brief band reunions: Nirvana, Outkast and more

The Britpop band Oasis will reunite for a 2025 world tour kicking off Friday in Cardiff, Wales

The Independent UK

‘Our stage is a giant pair of open legs!’ Meet Glastonbury’s most obscure acts

It’s not all about the headliners. Away from the big stages, feminist punks are singing songs about UTIs and Elvis has been reborn as Kurt Cobain

The Guardian - UK

Neil Young at Glastonbury review: did this show even happen?

4/5 Neil Young’s headline slot on the Pyramid Stage was untelevised and not hugely attended but still rocked

Evening Standard

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“To have Kurt’s beautiful voice over one of my songs would have been amazing”: the story behind every track on Foo Fighters’ monumental debut album

It’s 30 years since Dave Grohl kicked off a game-changing second act, and this was the record that started it all.

Louder

Nine Inch Nails at the O2: 'Trent Reznor is the last great art rock star'

4/5 Despite technical problems, Nine Inch Nails prove that they are still pushing the boundaries of music and perhaps the perfect band for dark times

Evening Standard

“In the ’80s,MTVbuttered our bread. But after Kurt Cobain wore his grandfather’s sweater in the video forSmells Like Teen Spirit, there was no place on MTV for bands like us and Mötley Crüe”: The life and death of the thinking person’s hair metal band

Two top 10 hits and two million album sales couldn't save them

MusicRadar

Courtney Love has 'friend with benefits'

Courtney Love has found a "friend with benefits" but doesn't want to name the famous individual.

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“Ever dreamed of owning a piece of Nirvana’s legacy?” A Kurt Cobain guitar pick previously sold for more than $14k – now his MTV Unplugged plectrum is being raffled off for much, much less

The raffle will help raise funds for the Royal College of Music – and it offers the chance to own a slice of music history for just the price of a coffee

Guitar World

Your chance to win Kurt Cobain's plectrum — used during Nirvana’s legendary MTV Unplugged show

Visitors to the new London exhibition can enter the prize draw

MusicRadar

A pink Daisy Rock acoustic guitar, signed by Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus, has just smashed its estimate as it sells for over $100,000 at auction

Eddie Van Halen guitars also surpassed their estimates at Julien’s annual Music Icons event – but a Kurt Cobain acoustic remains unsold

Guitar World

“It’s truly one of the most unique purpose-built instruments I’ve ever seen”: How David Lynch created a five-necked guitar that would make the most of his outlandish playing style – and Kurt Cobain’s luthier brought it to life

Alongside his famed 1997 Parker Fly, another instrument in Lynch's collection is the curiously spec’d, off-kilter five-necked guitar that the filmmaker himself designed and commissioned

Guitar World

“They were just asking for it”: When Kurt Cobain deliberately sabotaged Nirvana’s Top of the Pops appearance

Cobain later said his mock-baritone vocal was an attempt at imitating Morrissey

MusicRadar

AI Kurt Cobain: The horror of Instagram's chatbots

Instagram's AI Kurt Cobain chatbot is extremely popular, logging more than 105.5k interactions to date. However, if you look at the conversations, it reveals a disturbing problem...

Euronews

Great clothes, cool music and no social media. Was this the last ‘best decade ever’?

LET’S UNPACK THAT: People everywhere, it seems, are nostalgic for the Nineties. Well, they looked and sounded good, says Adam White, but not everything was rosy – and every decade since has been ruined by the internet

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Counting Crows’ Adam Duritz: ‘Kurt Cobain’s death scared me – it taught me what could happen to me’

INTERVIEW: The frontman of one of the biggest rock acts of the Nineties talks to Sarfraz Manzoor about the breakdown he experienced after Cobain’s suicide, finding peace by hanging out with Johnny Depp and Allen Ginsberg at The Viper Room, and his struggles with dissociative disorder

MusicRadar

“Gilmour’s Strat went for four million — and 67 nations tuned in to that auction”: The man with the $1billion guitar collection

The late Jim Irsay also had Kurt Cobain’s famous Mustang

The Guardian - UK

Scotland’s most reliable sunshine! Teenage Fanclub’s greatest songs – ranked

As their album Grand Prix turns 30, we rate the standout moments from a group Kurt Cobain called ‘the best in the world’

Guitar World

“I don’t have the words right now to express the loss of such a special man”: Jim Irsay, billionaire philanthropist and owner of the world’s greatest guitar collection, dies aged 65

The Indianapolis Colts owner had assembled a revered and hugely valuable guitar haul that included David Gilmour’s Black Strat, Bob Dylan’s Newport Folk Festival Strat, and Kurt Cobain’s Smells Like Teen Spirit Mustang

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What Hi-Fi?

I've tried Astell & Kern's flagship portable music player – and it's a behemoth in both size and price

Astell & Kern knows how to make a portable music player, with the flagship A&ultima SP4000 looking to be its best ever.

Guitar World

“I was really fortunate that I got to work with Kurt. He had a real ear for a hook – playing bass with him was super-easy”: Krist Novoselic achieved harmony through Kurt Cobain’s chaos –and was the making of this Nirvana classic

All great bands have players that fit together, and Nirvana was no exception

Guitar World

Kurt Cobain's 1989 Takamine expected to fetch up to $500,000 at auction – alongside guitars played by the likes of Eric Clapton, Eddie Van Halen, David Bowie, Joe Perry and Melissa Etheridge

This year's Music Icons sale – organized by Julien's Auctions – includes over 700 collectible items from some of the world's biggest guitar stars

MusicRadar

Why are parts of the Melvins’ old touring van being sold for up to $40,000?

They’re part of Julien’s latest Music Icons auction

Louder

“It was like a renewal or a reawakening”: Dave Grohl was struggling after Kurt Cobain’s death. Then he wrote This Is A Call and everything changed

The story of Foo Fighters’ debut single, which turns 30 next month, and why it's the song that Dave Grohl says saved his life

MusicRadar

“I was shocked. That was the exact sound that I had been chasing for years”: Nirvana tone sleuth Aaron Rash solves his epic tone mystery and finds the guitar that Kurt Cobain used for In Utero

Rash’s many years down the rabbit hole have been rewarded as he finally gets his hands on the exact same model Cobain used and it’s an oddball offset with “absolutely wild” pickups

Metal Hammer

"I was talking with Kurt, and he said, You should join my band." The night that Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, and DinosaurJr's J. Mascis realised that newcomers Nirvana were going to change alternative rock forever

Watch a four-piece Nirvana play one of the most important gigs of their career in July 1989

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