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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

Louder

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

Metal Hammer

"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

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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 Independent UK

Kenny Wayne Shepherd: the soundtrack of my life

Blues giant Kenny Wayne Shepherd picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and recalls the life-changing show he went to as a three-year-old

Louder

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

Guitar World

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A Kurt Cobain stage-smashed Fender Stratocaster is going up for auction

Signed by all three members of Nirvana, the Strat also features a note from Cobain addressed to the Screaming Trees' Mark Lanegan

Guitar World

That time Nirvana destroyed everything in sight and then set their own tour bus on fire

Smells Like White Spirit: Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain had lofty ideas about smashing the rock'n'roll cliches that came before him – but that wasn't all he ended up smashing

Metal Hammer

Soft power: cardigans become male status symbol as sales soar

Celebrities and TV characters are flexing their muscles in non-threatening cosy knitwear

The Guardian - UK

Bobcat Goldthwait soldiers on in laidback evening of comedy at Lincoln Lodge

A more measured and demure Goldthwait stepped to the mic at the Lincoln Lodge on Wednesday night, celebrating the release of his comedy album,“Soldier for Christ.”

Chicago Sun-Times

"New York in the '80s was lawless and f**ked-up": How heroin, hardcore and a headless corpse inspired Unsane's insane early adventures in Gotham

Unsane vocalist/guitarist Chris Spencer revisits the NYC noise rock band's formative years ahead of their upcoming Early Cuts European tour

Metal Hammer

Soundgarden and Vicky Cornell settle, paving way for new Soundgarden album

SEATTLE — After more than three years of contentious litigation, Soundgarden and Vicky Cornell have reached an agreement paving the way for a future Soundgarden album. Though terms of the deal were not disclosed, news of the accord was announced by Cornell, the wife of late frontman Chris Cornell, and…

Tribune News Service

Every Mudhoney album ranked from worst to best

The collected works of grunge's definitive band, analysed and arranged in order of merit

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"It broke my heart" – Jason Everman talks about getting fired from Soundgarden, quitting Nirvana and becoming a decorated US Army Ranger

"Initially I thought I was going to be able to contribute to the band creatively and then it got to the point when I realised that wasn't going to happen," reflected the former Nirvana guitarist

Metal Hammer

On anniversary of Kurt's death, Frances Bean Cobain urges fans to seek help for mental illness

Frances Bean Cobain remembers her father, Nirvana frontman Kurt, on 29th anniversary of his death and urges people not to suffer in silence

The Guardian - UK

Man who made £1.2m from fake vinyl records caught out by Clash fan

Richard Hutter charged up to £35 for counterfeit albums by bands like the Beatles and Nirvana over six-year period

MusicRadar

Ruston Kelly on the 10 albums that changed his life and how they inspired his new record: "If you really dig into the record, you can hear every single one’s influences"

"I started a Dave Matthews covers band in my high school" – we pick through the DNA of Ruston's sprawling third album, The Weakness

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Daily Mirror

Kurt Cobain's suicide note and a conflict of interest 'prove the icon was MURDERED'

An award-winning author is calling for the case of Kurt Cobain's death to be reopened after claiming he has proof it was 'scientifically impossible' the singer died by suicide

Guitar World

Paul McCartney: “Somebody whispered to me ‘That’s Nirvana. You’re Kurt.’ I couldn’t believe it”

Bassist Krist Novoselic revisits the time the ex-Beatle fronted a Nirvana reunion gig

Metal Hammer

When Aerosmith's Steven Tyler offered to help Nirvana's Kurt Cobain kick heroin, Cobain's response was savage: "This guy didn't have to die," Tyler later maintained

Aerosmith's Steven Tyler knows only too well the appeal, and consequences, of taking heroin, which is why he offered to help Kurt Cobain kick his habit

Louder

Queen's Brian May reveals his favourite guitarists of all time

Brian May names his favourite guitar players, and shares love for Nirvana's Kurt Cobain for "some of the greatest guitar music of all time"

Daily Mirror

Courtney Love urged to 'find Kurt Cobain's killers' as author believes he was murdered

An award-winning author and filmmaker has claimed Kurt Cobain was murdered and has offered his widow Courtney Love a lie detector test to 'clear her name'

Metal Hammer

Dave Grohl used to have a super-weird recurring dream about a Speedos-clad Eddie Vedder sucking on his finger

What could it mean if Dave Grohl was dreaming about Eddie Vedder sucking his finger while he was a member of Nirvana? "Paging Dr. Freud!"

Metal Hammer

The 10 most viewed Iron Maiden videos on YouTube

Which of Maiden's most popular videos shares a link with Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit?

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