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"He was mad, when he set it up… it shocked him how bad it sounded": Steve Albini has just given his most insightful interview on the recording gear behind Nirvana's In Utero and why Kurt Cobain's touring amp setup failed to impress in the studio

Amps, mics and the pedal on Heart-Shaped Box that nearly caused a rift between Cobain and Krist Novoselic – "He really thought Kurt was trying to sabotage the song"

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Kurt Cobain: Moments That Shook Music review – even 30 years on, his death seems utterly tragic

This documentary about the Nirvana singer’s demise is at its best when it uses archive interviews with fans to show the scale of their loss. Otherwise, it struggles to really convey his impact

The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: Courtney Love’s Women; Kicking Back With the Cardiffians; The Belgrano Diary; Word in Your Ear – review

The grunge grand dame tells her anarchic life story through the music she loves, while Charlotte Church has a tender chat with her ‘dada’. Plus, a deep dive into the Falklands war and Neil Tennant’s Smash Hits days

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TV tonight: Norway’s favourite detective is back solving murders

William Wisting has a murder and a missing child on his hands. Plus: it’s been 30 years since Kurt Cobain died. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Courtney Love: “Taylor Swift is not important. She’s not interesting as an artist”

She’s never held back, and Courtney Love isn’t about to start now. With a new BBC radio series hitting the airwaves, the rock legend and honorary Londoner tells Dylan Jones that while she champions women in music, she’ll sure as hell never be a Swiftie

Evening Standard

"Her expression seems to say, if you even try to take this child from me, I will kill you": Family Values is a beautiful, tender and moving document of the love shared by Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love and their most precious creation

Guzman, aka husband-and-wife photographers Constance Hansen and Russell Peacock, share intimate never-before-published portraits of Kurt, Courtney and baby Frances Bean

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OPINION - Amy Winehouse deserved better than this — stop selling her legacy

There is something arresting about seeing the musical icons of your own era memorialised. I was too young to have really understood what Kurt Cobain’s death meant when the news came on the radio, but I remember bursting into tears in my Hoxton flat when I heard about Amy Winehouse,…

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Frances Bean Cobain Posts Heartbreaking Tribute to Dad Kurt Cobain 30 Years After His Death

"I wish I could've known my dad."

Marie Claire

Seattle Remembers Kurt Cobain 30 Years After His Death

Seattle commemorates Kurt Cobain's 30th death anniversary, celebrating his music legacy and cultural influence.

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Kurt Cobain's Enduring Style Legacy Continues To Influence Fashion Trends

Explore Kurt Cobain's lasting impact on fashion and society through his rebellious and authentic style.

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"I had a real sense that he was lonely and alone. I felt the same way": On April 1, 1994 two world-famous rock stars were seated together on Delta Airlines flight 788 from Los Angeles to Seattle. It would be the last flight one of them would ever take

On Good Friday, 1994, two musicians caught a flight home to Seattle. One of them would be found dead at home one week later

The Guardian - UK

The angst, the sensitivity… and the songs: how gen Z got hooked on Nirvana

For a new generation of musicians, the grunge band and their frontman Kurt Cobain have provided a blueprint for a more inclusive style of stardom

Louder

"We made a living off being stupid. I don't know if there's a legacy to be taken from that": there will never, ever be another band like the Butthole Surfers. And maybe that's for the best

The myths, madness, magic and mayhem of Butthole Surfers, the world's most dangerous, lucky-to-be-alive art-rock weirdos

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The BBC is to broadcast "a visceral account of the days that surrounded that tragic moment in 1994 when Kurt Cobain took his own life" to mark the 30th anniversary of the Nirvana frontman's death

The British Broadcasting Corporation unveils plans to commemorate the life and legacy of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain

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"I was crying, watching in total disbelief. Nirvana were my favourite thing in the world." Evanescence's Amy Lee reveals the moment she found out Kurt Cobain had died

Evanescence frontwoman Amy Lee was a Nirvana megafan and heartbroken by the news that Cobain had taken his own life

The Guardian - UK

‘We said no to Elvis Presley sweat and James Dean condoms’: the agent making a killing from dead celebrities

Mark Roesler is a publicist with a difference – most of the clients he represents are no longer alive. And thanks to AI, holograms and social media, being dead famous is more lucrative than ever

The Guardian - UK

Stage-diver at an early Nirvana gig – Charles Peterson’s best photograph

‘The energy at this show was chaotic. This guy scrambled to the top of the amplifier and leaped. I thought he was going to break his neck’

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