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The band that helped create thrash pretty much killed it

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

Andy Gibbs and Matthew Thudium reflect on abyssal drop tunings, their DIY ethic, silly song nicknames and the value of having a tuning spreadsheet

Don’t judge an album by its cover... Easier said than done for some. Following the controversy surrounding the album image for Sabrina Carpenter’s new album, we look at the most controversial album artworks which landed the artists in hot water with the censors. And, in some cases, the taste police.

"The video was probably the key element in Smells Like Teen Spirit becoming a hit." Dave Grohl

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

Visitors to the new London exhibition can enter the prize draw

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

With their fourth album, Turnstile have confirmed themselves as the most important and daring band to have emerged from the hardcore scene in decades

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

With the Welsh rockers' latest album, God Shaped Hole, topping the charts, we check in with riff-master Shiner to talk song structure, grunge inspirations, and knowing when not to play