nirvana

The MTV VMAs are exactly one month away, and the network decided to celebrate the occasion by sharing the list of nominees for the upcoming music video awards show. Both Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga were nominated for nine awards each, including Video of the Year for their “Rain on Me” collaboration. Also in the […]

With the world continuing to feel the effects of the coronavirus outbreak, celebrities from every walk of life have been using their public platforms to raise money and awareness in response to the crisis. Rapper/singer/songwriter Post Malone is no different, announcing a streaming concert that will take place on Friday. The show will be a […]

Jenna Bush Hager grew up differently than the rest of us in that she spent her adolescent years in the White House with the spotlight on her as one of former President George Bush’s two daughters. However, in many ways, she was a normal kid who got into the same sort of trouble most of […]

A paper plate used by late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain recently went for a shocking amount of money at auction, reported Page Six. The greasy plate that the singer and songwriter ate pizza off of fetched $22,400. The reason it is worth so much is because of the double duty the dish provided for Cobain, […]

Today marks the 25th anniversary since the untimely death of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, who committed suicide on April 5, 1994. Although it seems impossible to believe that event occurred so many years ago as the songs he penned continue to remain relevant to today’s listeners, Cobain’s body of work stands alone as one of […]

It has been 25 years since the tragic death of Kurt Cobain, and fans still mourn the loss of the Nirvana singer who committed suicide at age 27 at the height of his stardom. But one week before Cobain ended his life in early 1994, his manager, music industry veteran Danny Goldberg, was one of […]

On April 5, 1994, the death of Kurt Cobain rocked the entire world as one of the icons of music was gone. With his death, the iconic and beloved Nirvana officially came to an end, but their music will live on forever. Some people think they should never be reformed, but there are others who […]

Although he found it uniquely devastating at the time, Dave Grohl has explained that in the long term, the death of his Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain has helped him to appreciate the value of his own life more. Speaking to CBS, the Foo Fighters frontman opened up about the death of his old friend and […]

During their heyday, Nirvana was forever snipping at cliched rockstar behavior and the egotistical demand of showbiz divas, so recent revelations that the punk trio once insisted upon having several bags of M&Ms on their rider with all the green ones taken out comes as something of a shock. That is until you realize it’s […]

Foo Fighters fans got the surprise of a lifetime when the band made way for a Nirvana reunion at the Cal Jam festival in San Bernardino, California on Saturday, Oct. 6. The jam-packed lineup included headliners the Foo Fighters along with Iggy Pop, Garbage, Tenacious D, and many more musicians, but the six-song Nirvana set […]

Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has been on the road touring for the bulk of the last 27 years. First with Nirvana, then with the Foo Fighters and a number of shorter engagements and one-offs with acts such as Probot, Audioslave, and even Trombone Shorty, as reported by the Inquisitr. In that time, he has […]

The groundbreaking Nirvana album Nevermind has turned 27-years-old, and it is still considered to be as relevant today as when it was released. The album was never supposed to change music for a generation, according to WAAF Radio. It was just supposed to sell around 500,000 copies if everything went right and maybe generate a […]

Former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic joined former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl, and Pat Smear, Nirvana’s second guitarist during 1993-1994, on stage to do a song at the Foo Fighter’s Seattle concert. While Novoselic has played with Grohl for a song here and there or a full set as they did for their Rock and Roll […]

Sesame Street has a number of big things planned to help celebrate the show’s 50th anniversary, and it was recently announced that Foo Fighters’ frontman and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Dave Grohl is going to help them celebrate. Sesame Street made the announcement on their official Twitter account over the weekend, although […]

Dave Grohl spent a little time at the Los Angeles Voodoo Threauxdown Festival playing drums with Trombone Shorty. While Grohl is known to collaborate with almost anyone whose music he enjoys that gives him an invite to sit-in, his set with Trombone Shorty was unique in a lot of ways for the “Hardest Working Man” […]

Dave Grohl is a rock ‘n’ roll legend, rock ‘n’ roll royalty, or whatever title is bestowed upon someone that has been a key member of two legendary bands, Nirvana and The Foo Fighters. It’s not just his music that has made Grohl legendary in the world of music, it also has a lot to […]

Dave Grohl’s four-year stint in Nirvana came to an abrupt end in 1994 when lead singer Kurt Cobain committed suicide. And while the band’s brief reign was riddled with dark lyrics, drug drama, and rivalries with ’80s hard rockers like Axl Rose, when all was said and done there were some surprisingly lighthearted times too. […]

Frances Bean Cobain, the 25-year-old daughter of singer Courtney Love, displayed her musical talents on Instagram and was hauntingly reminiscent of her late father, Kurt Cobain. The artist also hinted of an upcoming single. The grunge model has been active on Instagram in the last several years and for the first time, she shared her […]

Frances Bean Cobain has come to a property settlement agreement with ex-husband Isaiah Silva, but she lost an iconic piece of her late father’s history in the process. According to TMZ, six months after Frances’ divorce from Silva became final, the exes finalized a settlement over property, and Kurt Cobain’s famous MTV Unplugged guitar was […]

Jim Burns, a member of the musical mastermind duo that co-created MTV’s long-running acoustic concert series, MTV Unplugged, has died at age 65. Burns, who created MTV Unplugged with Robert Small in 1989, passed away after being hit by a taxi cab in New York City. Burns had been walking his dog on Fifth Avenue […]

Formed in 1980 in New Jersey, The Smithereens first found success in the latter half of the 1980s. Considered a pioneering band within the power-pop genre, The Smithereens inspired a lot of notable rock artists of the 1980s and 1990s, including Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain, Fountains of Wayne, The Gin Blossoms, Fastball, Toad the Wet Sprocket, […]

Courtney Love has filed new court papers in an ongoing attempt to stop the release of photos from the site of her late husband Kurt Cobain’s suicide to a conspiracy theorist who has long been on her tail. Love and her daughter Frances Bean Cobain contend that the release of the photos from the Nirvana […]

Ivanka Trump claims that she went through a “punk phase” when she younger, but some skeptical music fans are accusing the presidential advisor of being a poseur who doesn’t even know what punk music is. Long before Ivanka Trump began selling fancy dresses and shoes to fellow businesswomen, she was rocking flannel and rocking out […]

Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic has kept a relatively low profile since that band’s career was cut short by the death of frontman Kurt Cobain in 1994. While Novoselic has been involved in a few musical projects, such as his band Eyes Adrift and a stint playing bass for legendary punk band Flipper, he has mostly […]

An extraordinarily gigantic crowd is always seen at Paris Fashion Week’s Balmain show, and naturally last Thursday afternoon was no exception. The event was organized in a long antechamber of the 19th-century townhouse Hotel Poloki, scattered with columns and tapestries extending from the floor to the ceiling. The venue was made all the more decorative […]

Lorde is back with a new single for the first time since the release of her 2013 debut album, Pure Heroine, and, after a four-year hiatus, Lorde has something to say about pretty much everything. She talks about her new single, “Green Light,” and her music ambitions, as well as her time away from the […]

Kurt Cobain would have turned 50-years-old on February 20. The Nirvana frontman died on April 5, 1994, and his sudden death was magnified during MTV’s heyday when his widow, Courtney Love, joined mourners at a vigil in Seattle and later read Kurt’s suicide note to the crowd. Cobain’s only child, Frances Bean Cobain, posted a […]

Now that Kurt Cobain’s alleged support and endorsement of Donald Trump for president as early as 1993 has proven to be about as credible as the emperor’s new clothes, it’s something of an intrigue to wonder what the Nirvana singer would have actually thought about the man entering the White House. For those not in […]

The life and death of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain is once again getting renewed attention, as biographer Nicolas Otero prepares for the release of his graphic novel, Who Killed Kurt Cobain? While the fact that this is a graphic novel recounting Kurt’s life through the eyes of his childhood imaginary friend, named Boddah, Otero […]

Two albums, one choice. Nirvana’s Nevermind or Appetite For Destruction by Guns N’ Roses. Which classic album has stood the test of time and keeps on rocking long after the last headbanger has collapsed in a pool of cheap cider? Albums that define a decade and galvanize a generation don’t come along all that often, […]

Pull up a pew and relish this rip-roaring hit parade of classic songs revamped, reinvigorated and revolutionized by the unique talents of other artists. A classic song attains its legendary status because for two, three, four, five, six, or in some cases, ten plus minutes, it invokes a state of pure perfection which the listener […]

Nirvana fans of a somewhat delicate disposition are upset that the band’s official Facebook page has savaged rumors about Kurt Cobain being alive, well, and giving wonderful renditions of “Come As You Are” on Peruvian talent shows. There’s a school of thought which would have you believe rock stars don’t die, they just end up […]

Kurt Cobain tragically ended his own life well over two decades ago, or at least that’s how the story goes. Like any high-profile celebrity, rumors swirled in the aftermath of the Nirvana frontman’s death, with many speculating that he may have been murdered, possibly even by his wife Courtney Love. At the time of Kurt […]

The song that skyrocketed grunge band Nirvana into the spotlight, “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” was released 25 years ago today. Many Gen Xers can still recall where they lived and even exactly what they were doing the first time they heard the massive track, but not everyone knew how and where the song came about, […]

Taylor Swift ended up coming to the rescue of Foo Fighters’ frontman Dave Grohl during a pretty awkward performance at Sir Paul McCartney’s house recently, Us Weekly reported. Grohl himself told the hilarious story during the international advertising festival Cannes Lions this week. It turned out the moral of the story was that one should […]

Kurt Cobain was undoubtedly one of the most tortured souls of 90s music, and today marks 22 years since the Nirvana frontman died by his own hand. His daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, hadn’t even hit 2-years-old, and while her memories of her father are quite likely vague, given research that states that childhood memories tend […]

To dispel conspiracy theories that Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain may have been murdered, the Seattle Police Department has finally revealed previously unseen photos of the shotgun that was used in his suicide. Previously, only partial glimpses of the gun were possible in the death scene photos released by the police after Cobain died, aged […]

Veteran rocker Alice Cooper has been in the news most often lately for dissing the bands of the modern age, claiming that they don’t deserve to be categorized as “rock n’ roll.” While many have likened Alice Cooper’s criticisms to a grandpa complaining about “kids today and their terrible music,” he demonstrated some musical humility […]

The sweater that Kurt Cobain wore when Nirvana recorded their MTV Unplugged performance in late 1993 has sold at auction for well above the expected estimate. Perhaps one of the most iconic performances of the grunge era, when Kurt Cobain and Nirvana played on MTV Unplugged, the band was on top of the world. In […]

Frances Bean Cobain shocked the world and her own mother, Courtney Love, when she secretly wed long-time boyfriend, Isaiah Silva in a private ceremony. It wasn’t just that Frances, daughter of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, didn’t invite her mother to the intimate ceremony, but sources report that Love wasn’t even aware […]

In the church of rock n’ roll, former Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain is considered something of a latter-day saint, which might by why his old bandmate in grunge Kris Novoselic believes that in life, Cobain would have “made a great monk.” Rock n’ roll and religion have never been easy bedfellows, which is surprising because […]

Kurt Cobain, even 21 years after his death, still cannot have peace. → #KurtCobain Lawsuit Seeking Release of Kurt Cobain Death-Scene Photos Dismissed by Seattle Kurt Cobain Ontario… http://t.co/yKXsn1p8hx — Mary Smith (@smitharyy) August 1, 2015 According to Financial Express, a Washington state judge dismissed a lawsuit seeking death scene photographs of Nirvana’s front-man Kurt […]

Kurt Cobain’s widow Courtney Love has urged a Seattle judge not to release graphic death-scene photos showing the corpse of the former Nirvana frontman in the immediate aftermath of his tragic and sometimes disputed suicide. One might ask what place such disturbing and macabre photos have in the public realm in the first place, but […]

Nirvana photos from their first-ever concert have emerged on the internet through a completely unexpected source – a teenager from Seattle who recently tweeted rare photos of Kurt Cobain and her dad jamming together in her father’s previous house. Pictures of my dad and Kurt Cobain playing together back in the day😎 pic.twitter.com/y7lXh6acVn — Maggs🪴 […]

Kurt Cobain, the legendary frontman of the grunge rock act Nirvana, died 12 years before Twitter ever existed, but a user of the social media site has given fans the opportunity to travel back in time and see previously unreleased photos of the Seattle-based band’s first concert. Billboard reports that Seattle teen Maggie Poukkula unearthed […]

Since the 1994 death of Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain, which was ruled a suicide, many have believed that Kurt Cobain was actually murdered, despite the presence of a suicide note found next to the body. Now, over 20 years later, the investigation into Kurt Cobain’s death may be reopened. Kurt Cobain’s suicide note. pic.twitter.com/bwOf6uTnMo — […]

Conspiracy theories about the death of Nirvana star Kurt Cobain never quite go away. Cobain died by his own hand over 20 years ago, but for some there is still some mystery surrounding Kurt’s death. Some believe that Cobain was murdered by his then-wife, Courtney Love who, they believe, then staged an elaborate cover up […]

Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck is marketed as the benchmark documentary of the life, times, and untimely death of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. It’s been praised for its innovative use of Cobain’s own artwork and writings to explore and expose the reality and mythology of Kurt Cobain. It reportedly gave fans and his daughter, Frances […]

A fan letter written by then-14-year-old Dave Grohl has surfaced, showing that even as a teen, the former Nirvana and Foo Fighters star knew he had a future in rock & roll, Huffington Post is reporting. Look what my hero Ian Mackaye (Minor Threat/Fugazi) just found: a letter I wrote to him when I was […]

Fall Out Boy’s frontman Patrick Stump wasn’t a fan of Nirvana the first time he listened to them. In an interview with MTV in early May, 2015, members from Fall Out Boy spoke about the influence that Kurt Cobain and Nirvana had on them personally, as well as on the entire music scene. And as […]