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“Dave was the master of some of the most iconic basslines in music history”: Dave Allen, former Gang of Four bassist and post-punk heavyweight, dies aged 69

Allen’s work on Gang of Four’s first two albums would inspire generations and influence the likes of Nirvana, REM, and Flea, who has paid tribute to the late bass icon

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The 10 best grunge album openers: a definitive list that is irrefutably correct so you're not allowed to argue with it

A list in which we sacrifice some of our favourite opening tracks in the name of journalistic integrity... but seriously, no Serve The Servants?

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“I was like, ‘Man, I hated your band. You ended my thing’”: Bill Burr told Eddie Vedder that he hated Pearl Jam because they “knocked out” ‘80s hair metal

“When Pearl Jam came, that was another one of those grunge Seattle bands. And that’s when I was like, ‘Oh my God. This isn’t ending”

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Kurt Cobain's Nevermind guitar to go on display in the UK

Kurt Cobain's famous MTV Unplugged guitar is going on public display in the UK at the Royal College of Music Museum for the first time.

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"Discover the lasting influence of a band that changed the face of rock music." Kurt Cobain Unplugged exhibition to open in London

Nirvana exhibition to open in London this summer

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Kurt Cobain’s guitar from Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged show to go on display in UK

The Martin D-18E, played at renowned performance five months before singer’s suicide, sold for £4.8m in 2020

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“We hadn’t rehearsed. We weren’t used to playing acoustic. Even the people from MTV thought it was horrible”: A new Nirvana Unplugged exhibition features not only Kurt Cobain’s $6 million Martin D-18E but also his green cardigan

Find out more about their legendary MTV gig and get up close with one of the world’s most famous… cardigans

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"It’s a moody, beautiful song." Watch Fontaines D.C. blend Nirvana and Bring Me The Horizon classics into one beautifully atmospheric, synth-led cover

Fontaines D.C. create musical mash-up magic for Australian radio station triple j's popular Like A Version series

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“It was like being plugged into an electrical socket that has charged me ever since.” Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody on the rock show that made him want to start a band

“I haven’t ever felt the battery power of that night wane”

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Courtney Love is moving to the UK due to Trump presidency: ‘It’s frightening now’

The rocker joins a growing list of celebrities who have decided to flee America following Trump’s 2024 election win

The Independent UK

11 of the best closing tracks for testing your headphones or hi-fi system

Sometimes you have to wait until the end of an album to find the best tracks.

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The Guide #181: TV has given up on live music – but social media won’t let it die

In this week’s newsletter: The days of Top of the Pops every week and MTV Unplugged are long gone, but a slew of archive gold is now coursing through the internet

The Guardian - UK

“My rig broke on live TV. I started hitting it as hard as I could, but the bass would not break… so I threw it in the ocean”: L7’s Jennifer Finch on touring with Nirvana, gigging with Courtney Love and donating her Ghost bass to the Punk Rock Museum

The athletic low-end of Sub Pop’s only Los Angeles band signing, Finch reflects on how picking up an instrument sparks disruption, that iconic Reading Festival 1992 set and loaning Krist Novoselic her storied Ghost bass

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Milk It: Two strands of Kurt Cobain’s hair expected to fetch thousands at new punk-themed auction

Plus GG Allin’s stained underpants...

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Kurt Cobain's hair and GG Allin’s blood-signed used underwear is going up for auction

The Punks, Monsters, Smut & Madmen: A Countercultural Cross-Section auction has listed a number of rare items, including strands of Kurt Cobain's hair, a signed CD by Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey and GG Allin's blood-signed underwear

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Classic MTV Unplugged episodes, including Nirvana's, are now available to stream on Paramount+

Many have not been seen for over two decades

The Independent UK

Tony Hawk shares heartbreaking reason he wishes Kurt Cobain was still alive

The pair would now be related through their children

Louder

“I wish Kurt Cobain were here so he could hold our wondrous grandchild”: Skate legend Tony Hawk reflects on “transformative” Nirvana show he saw in 1991

Hawk has shared an emotional tribute to Nirvana and their frontman, with whom he has a mutual grandson, via social media

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Watch official pro-shot footage of Post Malone and Nirvana members performing Smells Like Teen Spirit for Saturday Night Live's 50th anniversary

Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear were joined by Post Malone for lively performance of Nirvana's smash hit from Nevermind

Evening Standard

Identity of Dave Grohl's love child's mother revealed after months of secrecy

The Foo Fighters frontman, 56, revealed in September that he had fathered a baby with another woman

Guitar World

“Kurt launched into that track and totally went off. In the middle of the song, he smashed his guitar to bits”: The making of the album that virtually invented a new genre, sold 30 million copies, and changed rock forever

One of the best-selling albums of all time, Nirvana's Nevermind re-shaped popular culture and guitar-based music almost overnight. This is how it was made

Guitar World

“A special rendition”: Post Malone proves his guitar hero credentials once again as he fronts Nirvana reunion and nails Smells Like Teen Spirit at SNL50

The under-appreciated guitarist took on lead and vocal duties for the one-song performance – and the internet absolutely loved it

Louder

Watch Post Malone join the surviving members of Nirvana for a frenzied blast through Smells Like Teen Spirit

The "Post Nirvana" performance took place at the SNL50 Homecoming Concert at New York's Radio City Music Hall

Louder

"We all appeared on stage wearing robes and holding candles:" Joe Satriani on G3 pranking, handling Yngwie Malmsteen and the Halloween costume he'd rather forget

After three decades of changing line-ups, the original G3 – Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Eric Johnson – returned to the stage

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“I’m a Nirvana fan, but it was just a regular guitar to me”: Opeth frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt left unimpressed by Kurt Cobain’s “haunted” Martin acoustic

Åkerfeldt got a chance to play the late Nirvana frontman’s 1953 D-18, aka Grandpa, in a recent visit to the Martin Museum

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