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Kurt Cobain’s Hair Inside Signed ‘Heart-Shaped Box’ On Sale For $20,000

Corban signed the box with “Krudt” during Nirvana's 1993 In Utero tour for a female fan. A piece of his remains are present.

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Kurt Cobain showed up to Nirvana's In Utero sessions with a chunk of the guitar Steve Albini smashed at Big Black's final show

Steve Albini reveals that Nirvana's Kurt Cobain owned a special memento from Big Black's farewell performance in Seattle

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Steve Albini recalls the secrecy around the Nirvana In Utero sessions: "I had to do everything I could to keep it under wraps to make sure that we didn’t get overrun by fans and the added nonsense"

He also reveals a young Cobain had kept a piece of the guitar he saw Albini smash onstage at Big Black's farewell gig in 1987

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Kurt Cobain’s smashed guitar sells for over $900,000

A guitar smashed by Nirvana's Kurt Cobain has fetched $902,010 at auction, several times its original estimate.

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Kurt Cobain’s smashed guitar from Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ era fetches nearly $600,000

A Fender Stratocaster guitar smashed by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain has sold for nearly $600,000 at auction — more than 10 times what it was expected to go for.

Los Angeles Times

A battered guitar which Nirvana's Kurt Cobain gifted to his friend Mark Lanegan sells at auction for almost $600,000

Having parted with $596,900, an anonymous bidder is now the proud owner of a guitar once owned by Kurt Cobain

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Kurt Cobain's broken guitar sells for nearly $600,000

The Nirvana frontman was known for smashing guitars during performances and in the studio. This one includes messages to his old friend, Mark Lanegan of the Screaming Trees.

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Meet ambient shredder Jakub Zytecki – the trailblazing virtuoso who picks plugins over pedals and plays a Kurt Cobain-inspired 8-string

The Polish wunderkind explains why Polyphia and Plini have reignited his guitar fire and how he channeled John Petrucci on his stellar new album, Remind Me

Guitar World

Is this the most expensive smashed guitar ever sold? Kurt Cobain’s stage-smashed Fender Stratocaster sells at auction for $600,000 – 10 times its initial estimate

The instrument, signed by all three members of Nirvana, er, smashed expectations in the recent sale

Guitar World

Why German men are most likely to sit down on the loo

German men are the most likely to sit down while taking a pee, according to am international poll. Researchers found that 62% of German men said they usually or always sat down, compared with 50% of Swedes, 34% of Italians and only 23% of Brits. Generations of German parents “worried…

The Week

Courtney Love reveals alternate lyrics Kurt Cobain wrote for Nirvana’s biggest hit

Love said the final version of ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ ended up a ‘different song’ than the original demo

The Independent UK

Courtney Love shares Kurt Cobain's unpublished scrapped lyrics for Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit

Courtney Love reveals unused lyrics written in Kurt Cobain's journal that were originally intended for Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit

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Billy Corgan has one good thing to say about the music industry in 2023: "The gatekeepers are dead and now people are figuring out who the real bands are"

Billy Corgan is happy that the "real OG bands" are finally getting the attention they deserve

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Watch Dave Grohl's first ever performance with Nirvana in this rare footage from 1990

Dave Grohl played live with Nirvana for the first time in October 1990: watch rare footage of the Olympia, WA gig

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Billy Corgan says Kurt Cobain was "the most talented guy of our generation" and reveals he cried when Cobain died because he'd "lost his greatest opponent"

Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan discusses the death of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain and admits he cried when Cobain died

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Billy Corgan: "When Kurt died, I cried because I lost my greatest opponent"

“I want the Pumpkins standing on the top of the heap of our generation,” Corgan said in a new interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music. “If that means I got to write 800 songs to do it, I’ll do it"

Daily Mirror

Major TV channel set to shut down for good after 36 years on air

MTV News is set to close down after 36 years due to staff cuts at Paramount, which owns the channel - and people are not happy about it

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After nearly four decades, MTV News is no more

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How PJ Harvey’s raw, violent, vengeful masterpiece Rid Of Me inspired Nirvana and set hearts ablaze among a new generation of fearless female musicians

PJ Harvey’s savage, soul-baring second album Rid Of Me is 30 years old. Its howls of pain, rage and revenge now sound more vital than ever

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The time Nirvana got in a food fight with Sonic Youth (and then someone went and urinated in Ride’s champagne bucket)

It wasn't all doom and gloom in camp Nirvana – the band found time for some "real, sincere fun" along the way too

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"This is one of the best amps I've ever played" – new video investigates the Fender Twin Reverb Kurt Cobain used on Nirvana's Bleach

Jack Endino's modded Fender amp was Cobain's go-to for Nirvana's debut album

The Independent UK

Rita Lee death: Music world mourns Brazil’s ‘Queen of Rock’ who has died aged 75

The founder of rock band Os Mutantes reputedly had fans in Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain and King Charles

The Independent UK

How Gen Z fell for and reinvented quiet-loud indie rock

Ed Power finds out why bands such as HotWax and Bleach Lab are so inspired by the sound of Pixies, Hole and Nirvana

The Guardian - US

Rita Lee, Brazil’s undisputed Queen of Rock, dies aged 75

Tributes pour in for founder of Os Mutantes, who sardonically named her tumour after far-right president Jair Bolsonaro

Guitar World

The 5 Nirvana basslines you need to hear

From Smells Like Teen Spirit to About a Girl, here are Krist Novoselic’s five greatest basslines

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