Kurt Cobain News

Drummer predicted the headline gig would be 'a disaster' Dave Grohl has said he was convinced that Nirvana 's headline appearance at Reading Festival in 1992 would end their career.

Maori: Poroporoaki: Hawea Vercoe The Maori Party has expressed their profound shock at hearing of the death of prominent school principal and local body politician Hawea Vercoe.

The patrons of Seattle's Comet Tavern weren't sure what to make of the two guys walking in carrying a banjo, an acoustic guitar and an accordion.

Plaids have slowly been regaining their reputation after having died off with the grunge scene and Kurt Cobain in the 1990's. Everywhere we turn, people are increasingly getting caught up in the appeal of plaids.

Dave Grohl says, in retrospect, he isn't surprised that Kurt Cobain died young. "There are some people that you meet in life that you just know that they are not going to live to be a 100 years old," he said in a recent interview with British radio, looking back on his time in Nirvana.

At the end of the live portion that's been added to this reissue of Nirvana's first album, Bleach , lots of distortion and feedback can be heard before some out of control thwacking and smashing comes in.

His songs of alienation and despair were masterful slices of early '90s grunge. Many speculated that it was the immense wave of notoriety and placement under the media's microscope that drove Cobain to his suicide.

On November 4, 2009, the Grammy award winning rock band No Doubt filed a lawsuit against Activision Publishing, the makers of the hugely successful video game Guitar Hero.

This photograph was taken in Aberdeen, after all: all past, no future. The place from which Kurt Cobain made his escape.

Dave Grohl always knew his Nirvana band mate Kurt Cobain would die young - so he prepared himself for his pal's early death.

Kurt Cobain performs at the Reading Festival in 1992. November 10, 2009 - The first time I saw Nirvana , at the club First Avenue in Minneapolis, I didn't really get it.

Chad Channing practically forced the members of Nirvana to boot him from the band, he has claimed.

Another Activision game, another musician angered. This time, No Doubt is suing over their likenesses being playable for all of the tracks in Band Hero.

A sampling of what's making news and causing conversations around the Web: Gwen Stefani is no Courtney Love -- and that's a good thing -- but the bombshell No Doubt lead singer and her bandmates seem to have a similar axe to grind with video game giant Activision, creator of the popular Guitar Hero and Band Hero titles.

When a catalog is so noteworthy, and yet so pitiably small as Nirvana'sa 'three studio records, an outtakes collection, an inconsistent box set of demos, and multiple live shows that duplicate most of these songs again and againa 'a passionate base of support turns into something like a church.

In the early 1990s, The New York Times sent a list of questions to Sub Pop records in Seattle.

Chuck Klosterman has a theory. A lot of them, actually. He has a theory about why grunge rock icon Kurt Cobain was like the late cult leader David Koresh, why the read-option offense signifies something deep and meaningful about football, why ABBA will never reunite, and why Garth Brooks created that goofy alter ego a decade ago.

By Ruth Walker After Kurt Cobain's death, biographer Charles R Cross uncovered a treasure trove of the singer's intimate and revealing artwork, journals and photographs.

The Tweance, the Twitter seance, has reported that Michael Jackson is "at peace", and Kurt Cobain thinks Dave Grohl is a good drummer.

MICHAEL JACKSON and Kurt Cobain are among the late stars chosen to be contacted in the world's first Twitter seance, it was announced today.