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Nirvana: Take The Money and Run
Interview by Keith Cameron, Sounds, 27 October 1990
If any of the US underground bands are likely to break through into the mainstream, then it's got to be NIRVANA. Currently being courted by ...
Nirvana: With The Lights Out (Geffen)
Review by Stevie Chick, The Stranger, 18 November 2004
POSTHUMOUS RELEASES FROM from departed artists often flail to do the impossible – to provide the music so violently and abruptly silenced by, say, Jeff ...
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Interview by Jon Savage, Rock's Backpages audio, 22 July 1993
Childhood in Aberdeen WA; 'Teen Spirit' and making it; Courtney Love and marriage; drugs and the stresses of success; Vig vs Albini; that notorious MTV Awards incident – it's pretty much all here.
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Overview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 18 March 1989
RIGHT NOW, MUDHONEY ARE THE STANDARD BEARERS FOR SEATTLE'S NEW GENERATION OF THRASH METAL MERCHANTS, BUT THERE IS A LEGION OF OTHER BANDS READY AND ...
Nirvana: Bleach (Sub Pop import US LP only)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 8 July 1989
REAL ROCK music should hurt. Like being too near an exploding plate glass window, it should get under your skin and cause you to writhe ...
Review by Push, Melody Maker, 19 August 1989
STONED, LOADED. It's both a mental and a physical bliss. Everything is nothing but an abandoned blur. Minutes away from a blackout, from a sweet, ...
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 2 September 1989
This week EDWIN POUNCEY gets on the trail of Sub Pop, the label that brought you Mudhoney and who are about to unleash the ungodly ...
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 21 October 1989
Everett True Thrashes It Out With The Latest Wizards From Seattle's Sub Pop Label Who Arrive In Britain Next Week ...
Profile and Interview by John Robb, Sounds, 21 October 1989
Natural descendants of Mudhoney and Dinosaur Jr, Nirvana are a high energy explosion resulting in a trail of smashed gear and beat anthems. John Robb ...
Nirvana/Tad/The Cateran: SOAS, London
Live Review by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 4 November 1989
Half the bloated business moguls in Britain have never heard of them. They were not invited to appear at the Smash Hits poll-winners party – ...
Live Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 16 December 1989
"CHECK!... CHECK!..." This is one little improvisation that the fans freezing outside were missing as Sub Pop stalwarts Nirvana struggled valiantly to balance the sound ...
Screaming Trees, Nirvana, Tad: Pine Street Theatre, Portland, OR
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 3 March 1990
IT SEEMS incredible people still miss the point of Tad. Most (heavy) rock bands play for the sheer hell of it, and, sure Tad do ...
Tad and Nirvana: The Larder They Come
Report and Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 17 March 1990
This was a tour not for the faint-hearted. Everett True witnesses the chaos & carnage caused by Tad & Nirvana as they rampaged through the ...
Nirvana, The Melvins, Dwarves, The Derelicts: Motorsports International Garage, Seattle
Live Review by Keith Cameron, Sounds, 13 October 1990
The American Uncivil War ...
Interview by Push, Melody Maker, 15 December 1990
NIRVANA'S NEW single, 'Sliver' weighs in at a fraction over two minutes and is one hell of a pop song. No messing. ...
Interview by Pippa Lang, Metal Hammer, September 1991
Is this the age of the meaningless lyric? Or simply a case of overzealous teen spirit? Seattle's latest vigilantes, Nirvana, attempt to answer budding Nirvana-ette ...
Reading '91: Reading, Writhing And Riffmatic
Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 7 September 1991
FRIDAY: IT WAS obvious, really – he had to say it. Who better than His Supreme Iggyness Of Pop, the Godfather of (s)punk rock, to ...
Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 21 September 1991
We're talking sublime here. NIRVANA are the greatest band to emerge from the American post-hardcore meltdown since Sonic Youth, they sound nothing like Hüsker Dü ...
Nirvana, Sister Double Happiness, L7, Hole: Palace Theater, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 28 October 1991
A Potent 'Rock for Choice' at Palace ...
Nirvana: National Theatre, Kilburn
Live Review by Ben Thompson, Independent on Sunday, November 1991
WHEN NIRVANA appeared at the Reading Festival earlier this summer, they were just one more obscure American underground rock trio with a good LP and ...
Nirvana: Station To Devastation
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 2 November 1991
On their recent European tour, Seattle's masters of chaos, Nirvana, managed to set their tour bus alight, upset the Pogues and The Ramones, piss into ...
Review by Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 24 November 1991
NIRVANA'S VERTIGINOUS ascent to stardom has to be the year’s most surprising success story. The single ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ has been in heavy rotation ...
Review by Ira Robbins, Rolling Stone, 28 November 1991
DESPITE THE hand-wringing the fanzines do each time an indie-rock hero signs a major-label deal, righteous postpunk stars from Hüsker Dü to Soundgarden have joined ...
Nirvana: Kilburn National, London
Live Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, December 1991
THE ONLY EXPLANATION is that a lot of people didn't realise how angry and alienated they really were. Once in a blue moon, a group ...
Nirvana: Smells Like A Sensation
Profile by Simon Reynolds, The Observer, 8 December 1991
NIRVANA ARE THE sensation of 1991. Their single ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ shot straight into the UK Top Ten and is now number seven after ...
Report by Simon Reynolds, The Guardian, 19 December 1991
This year saw groups like Nirvana breaking into the mainstream,. Simon Reynolds reports on the changing face of the charts ...
Nirvana: 'Nevermind' — The Bolognese!
Report and Interview by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 21 December 1991
THE RAIN-sodden streets of Muggia (a secluded town in Northern Italy that acts as the border with civil war-torn Yugoslavia) are seemingly empty. Nirvana bass ...
Overview by Keith Cameron, Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 4 January 1992
It's the dawning of a new earache! Jakki Brambles is playing Daisy Chainsaw! Your parents have heard of Nirvana! Geffen are chasing Mudhoney! Madonna's into ...
Nirvana: Smells like... Bullshit
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 8 February 1992
Nevermind has been at Number One on the Kerrang! Album Chart for a month. Stateside it's the same plus Double Platinum, and worldwide the video ...
Doing the slam: Tales from the mosh pit, where rock 'n' roll is a contact sport
Report and Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 23 February 1992
THESE DAYS, rock 'n' roll has become a contact sport. Not all rock 'n' roll, of course. You won't see slam dancing at a Moody ...
Nirvana: Bleach (Tupelo/All formats); Hormoaning (Japanese CD only)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 7 March 1992
WHAT'S ON offer here are Nirvana's (bleached) roots, a raw-throated and perhaps over-fussy sounding debut LP that would eventually spawn a phenomenon. Bleach – with ...
Nirvana: Smells Like Chlorine Spirit
Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 21 March 1992
IT'S 9AM IN Tacoma and Nirvana bassist Chris Novoselic has just got up. He's got things to do, cats to feed, a house to move ...
Nirvana: Inside the Heart and Mind of Kurt Cobain
Interview by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 16 April 1992
FOR NOW, Kurt Cobain and his new wife Courtney Love, live in an apartment in Los Angeles's modest Fairfax district. The living room holds little ...
Report and Interview by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 16 April 1992
For real rockers Seattle is the ultimate wet dream. By Michael Azerrad ...
Kurt Cobain: I'm Not Gonna Crack!
Profile and Interview by Michael Azerrad, Vox, July 1992
Poisoned by the chalice of instant success, bedridden with road-rash after a ton of amp-smashingly intense gigs – what's happened to Nirvana's tortured singer and ...
Nirvana: 'In My Head, I'm So Ugly'
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 18 July 1992
In the frankest and most comprehensive interview he's given since Nevermind blasted Nirvana into the rock super league, Kurt Cobain talks to EVERETT TRUE in ...
Come As You Aren’t: Nirvana at Isle Of Calf Festival, Oslo
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 25 July 1992
THEY DON'T DESERVE THIS. Forget any reports you may have heard that rock is alive and kicking. The world’s only credible arena rock band is ...
Nirvana: Crucified by Success?
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 25 July 1992
In the second part of his exclusive NIRVANA interview, Everett True meets the band in Stockholm and finds Kurt Cobain, Chris Novoselic and Dave Grohl ...
Live Review by Ben Thompson, Independent on Sunday, August 1992
BY THE LAST day of the Reading Festival, the physical conditions have reverted to type. Soggy survivors cluster on little islands dotted between enormous mud ...
Nirvana: Nirva Mind The Bollocks
Interview by John Robb, Siren, August 1992
JESUS H. CHRIST! This is turning into some sort of modern-day fable. Out there, an uncompromised riffola outfit from an arse end of the US, ...
Nirvana: Love Will Tear Us Apart
Report and Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 29 August 1992
As Nevermind zoomed past Bono & Jacko, so the rumours started: Kurt Is Dead ...Kurt & Courtney & heroin ...As the bulldozers continue to gather ...
Interview by David Cavanagh, Select, September 1992
THEY'RE THE ADAM AND EVE of the New World Order, the First Couple of the rock 'n' roll underclass. For Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love ...
Nirvana: Reading Festival, Berkshire
Live Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 3 September 1992
The sights, sounds, smells: Andy Gill reviews Nirvana in the mud at the Reading Festival ...
Nirvana: Reading Festival, England
Live Review by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 29 October 1992
"FUCK WOODSTOCK," read one popular T-shirt here, although this twentieth annual jamboree also began with lots of wasted folks frolicking in the mud and ended ...
Review by David Sinclair, Q, January 1993
With the colossal success of Nevermind, Nirvana brought grunge to the masses, a phenomenon which has radicalised "mainstream" rock across the board. ...
Review by Keith Cameron, Vox, January 1993
THE TITLE could be a swipe at the legions of bootleggers, whose unwelcome attention Nirvana attracted the moment they attained superstar status. In fact, this ...
Report and Interview by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 7 January 1993
After a successful European summer tour and a sold-out show at the mammoth 45,000-seat Velez Sarsfield Stadium, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, what has the world's ...
Nirvana: Never Mind The Bullets
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 27 February 1993
Deep in the woods of Minnesota, a sleepy CHRIS NOVOSELIC is just finishing a major magazine article on the Bosnian/Croatian conflict, while Steve Albini helps ...
Nirvana: Cobain't That Peculiar
Report and Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 24 April 1993
Last week, Nirvana, L7, The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy and The Breeders staged a massive benefit for Bosnia at San Francisco's Cow Palace. Everett True ...
Nirvana: Cow Palace, San Francisco
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 1 May 1993
LET'S GO BACK a few years. Rock – as an innovative and thus creative form – is dead. I'll temper that. Rock, as created by ...
Nirvana: Incesticide (Geffen Records)
Review by Ian Christe, Warp, June 1993
ORIGINALLY INTENDED for release by their former label under the name Cash Cow, this collection of fifteen tight and tuneful Nirvana rarities has one of ...
Beyond The Thrash-hold Of Cobain: Nirvana: Roseland Ballroom, New York
Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 7 August 1993
IT'S DEAFENING. Thurston Moore has his fingers in his ears. Lee Ranaldo's son Cody is wearing ear muffs. Even Courtney Love looks a little taken ...
Sounds Dirty: The Truth About Nirvana
Report and Interview by Jon Savage, The Observer, 15 August 1993
SITUATED ON 51st Street and Broadway, in the heart of the old entertainment area, Roseland is a New York institution. In the 1920s it was ...
Review by Ben Thompson, Independent on Sunday, September 1993
ROCK AND ROLL can be cruel. One minute you are a professional misfit, happily living out a punk-rock life of misery and alienation in an ...
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, October 1993
On the eve of the release of In Utero, the hungrily-anticipated successor to their planet-rogering Nevermind, Q meets Nirvana and delves into Kurt Cobain's curious ...
Review by David Cavanagh, Select, October 1993
The Hell-Shaped Room Normal cervix will not be resumed. Phew! The speculation is over; and you thought that was difficult. Nirvana’s Albini-'recorded’ third album will ...
Nirvana: The Boys Are Back In Town
Interview by Dave Thompson, Alternative Press, October 1993
Go ahead. Hate this band, it's the cool thing to do. The punk rockers hate them because they've "sold out"; the mainstream hates them because ...
Nirvana: Winners Get Scars, Too
Book Excerpt by Michael Azerrad, Vox, October 1993
Nirvana's meteoric rise was a classic example of the American Dream in action — until heroin turned it into a nightmare for singer Kurt Cobain. ...
Territorial Pissings: The Battles Behind Nirvana's New Album
Report and Interview by Michael Azerrad, Musician, October 1993
KURT COBAIN has found that being a professional rock musician is not quite what he imagined when he was banging out his raunchy punk rock ...
Nirvana: Coliseum, New York NY
Live Review by Deborah Frost, New York Daily News, 16 November 1993
Nirvana Reaches Nirvana ...
Nirvana: The Coliseum, New York City
Live Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 27 November 1993
IF THERE WERE any doubts that Nirvana had truly connected with America's rock heartland, the sight of the crowd tonight dispels them. It's a sea ...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 11 December 1993
Forget all the bullshit! Forget the scandal! This is the real NIRVANA! Mellow! Happy! And capable of lounging Stateside arenas without baulking! In a Big K! exclusive, ...
Kurt Cobain and Kim Deal: Sleepless In Seattle
Report and Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 25 December 1993
For a concert spectacular to be broadcast worldwide on New Year's Eve, MTV went to Seattle, where they'd but together a bill featuring Cypress Hill ...
Pearl Jam Versus Nirvana: The Final Countdown
Essay by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 25 December 1993
IF NUMBERS COUNT for anything, Pearl Jam wiped the floor with Nirvana. In its first week of release, Vs sold five times as many copies ...
Sub Pop: See Label For Details — An Interview with Bruce Pavitt
Interview by Cynthia Rose, Dazed & Confused, 1994
In 1979, when he was a college student, Bruce Pavitt started a fanzine called Subterranean Pop. Although the hipsters around him were pushing UK imports, ...
Interview by Caitlin Moran, Melody Maker, 19 February 1994
Hole are, to all intents and purposes, Courtney Love. And Courtney Love is a one-woman spite factory, spewing out bile and savaging anyone who dares ...
Kurt Cobain: Revolutionary Debris
Comment by Eric Weisbard, Spin, April 1994
I STILL prefer to believe that Kurt Cobain's life was saved by rock'n'roll. ...
Kurt Cobain: Too Good For This World
Obituary by Ben Thompson, Independent on Sunday, April 1994
AT MIDNIGHT on Friday, after the violence in Rwanda and before the end of the IRA ceasefire, a vaguely disdainful Radio 5 newsreader announces the ...
Kurt Cobain: Nirvana just wasn't enough
Obituary by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 15 April 1994
What do you do when your dreams come true, and they're not quite like you planned? For Kurt Cobain, the pain of fame became too ...
Obituary by Jim Arundel, Melody Maker, 16 April 1994
In Bloom — The Musical Legacy of Kurt Cobain ...
Kurt Cobain: "We Just Cannot Realise How Troubled This Soul Was..."
Comment by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 16 April 1994
I FIRST MET Kurt Cobain on the night of December 3, 1989. His band had been on the road for weeks, touring the European toilet ...
Kurt Cobain: I Hate Myself And I Want To Die
Obituary by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, 16 April 1994
AND SO, to quote his mother, the only person who appears to have been actively concerned about his well-being in the last few days of ...
Comment by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 18 April 1994
Adam Sweeting explains how the media didn't react to the significance of Kurt Cobain's death. ...
Obituary by Nick Kent, MOJO, June 1994
NIRVANA SINGER AND SONGWRITER. THE FIRST TRUE ROCK AND ROLL STAR OF THE NINETIES. ...
Kurt Cobain: The Heartbreak Kid
Overview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, June 1994
KURT COBAIN was a great success. He wrote, he sang, he played lead guitar for the new band of the '90s. He made millions of ...
Revolutionary Debris: Kurt Cobain
Comment by Eric Weisbard, Spin, June 1994
I STILL PREFER to believe that Kurt Cobain's life was saved by rock'n'roll. I picture him wearing his favorite T-shirt, the one with the image ...
Live Through This: a year on the road with Nirvana
Obituary by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 2 June 1994
LAST SPRING, Kurt Cobain sat at his kitchen table at 3 a.m., chain-smoking and toying with one of the medical mannequins he collected. "It's hard ...
Report by Paul Elliott, Pete Makowski, Kerrang!, 9 July 1994
Seattle's heroin nightmare continues. First ANDY WOOD of the seminal MOTHER LOVE BONE overdosed and died. Then KURT COBAIN ended his desperate addiction by committing ...
Report by Jon Savage, The Observer, 24 July 1994
DEPENDING ON your view of the afterlife, suicide may or may not be the solution to a life that has become unbearable. For ...
Nirvana: Unplugged In New York (Geffen/All formats)
Review by John Harris, New Musical Express, 29 October 1994
WAKE OF FIRE ...
Postcard From The Edge: Nirvana: Unplugged In New York (Geffen)
Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 29 October 1994
When Nirvana embarked upon MTV's Unplugged session last year, no one dreamed it would be their last-ever album. Now, handicapped as it is by the ...
A Simple Song That Lives Beyond Time: Leadbelly via Kurt Cobain
Essay by Eric Weisbard, The New York Times, 13 November 1994
IMMEDIATELY after the suicide of Kurt Cobain, lead singer of the rock band Nirvana, last April, MTV broadcasted almost continuously an hourlong Unplugged special that ...
Nirvana: Unplugged In New York
Review by Ben Thompson, MOJO, December 1994
IT SEEMS A PARTICULARILY VICIOUS IRONY:THAT A BAND THAT electricity seemed to flow through, a band who at their best could fling the weight of ...
Nirvana: Unplugged In New York (Geffen GED 24727)
Review by Tom Hibbert, Q, December 1994
"IT'S BETTER to burn out than fade away..." The death of Kurt Cobain affected the (rock) world like no other since John Lennon's. Was it ...
Nirvana: Unplugged In New York (Geffen)
Review by Gavin Martin, Vox, December 1994
THE "unplugged" format, more often utilised to spring-clean a musty back-catalogue than carve out a way forward, provided Kurt Cobain with a much-needed window in ...
Comment by Andrew Mueller, Vox, January 1995
After years of putting Eddie Vedder down, Kurt Cobain's final retribution was to pass him Grunge's crown of thorns. But will he be able to ...
The Ten That Matter Most '85-'95: Nirvana
Retrospective by Eric Weisbard, Spin, April 1995
What does it take to be named one of the top ten artists of the decade? Innovation, influence, imagination, integrity. It all adds up to ...
Nirvana: "I Don't Believe In Closing Off Options"
Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 8 April 1995
Back in August 1991, NIRVANA were just the latest in a long line of US rock hopefuls. Newly signed to Geffen, Nevermind was about to ...
Report and Interview by Barbara Ellen, New Musical Express, 8 April 1995
If Cobain's death shook the rock world, its impact on his hometown went off the scales. BARBARA ELLEN visited Seattle to find out how much ...
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, November 1995
THE FOO FIGHTERS Melody Maker interview takes place in the lobby of some swank hotel in Madrid, Spain. Outside, gun-toting cops keep the hookers at ...
Interview by Dave Thompson, Q, April 1996
Four days after Kurt Cobain's suicide, thousands gathered in his home city to attend the event that became his public funeral, falling somewhere between touching ...
Nirvana: From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah (Geffen)
Review by Ben Thompson, Independent on Sunday, October 1996
FOR ALL THOSE who will overturn the tables like Jesus in the temple if they hear Nirvana Unplugged in another vegetarian restaurant, From the Muddy ...
Interview by Jon Savage, The Guardian, 20 December 1996
A young New York painter looks like becoming "the first artist of Britpop". Jon Savage on how Elizabeth Peyton's portraits of Jarvis, Liam and Noel ...
Kurt Cobain: The Lost Interview
Interview by Jon Savage, Guitar World, 1997
In July of 1993, Kurt Cobain gave a dramatically candid interview to respected British rock journalist Jon Savage. Freely discussed were such controversial topics as ...
Verse Chorus Verse: The Recording History of Nirvana
Special Feature by Gillian G. Gaar, Goldmine, 14 February 1997
NEARLY THREE years after Kurt Cobain's death in April 1994, interest in his group, Nirvana, remains strong. ...
Foo Fighters: Happy Dave Is Here Again
Interview by Stuart Bailie, Vox, June 1997
Dodgy facial furniture aside, Dave Grohl is, without doubt, the most well-adjusted man in rock as he prepares to lead Foo Fighters onto further glory ...
Kurt and Courtney: Love Will Tear It Apart
Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 1998
"I'M INTERESTED IN forbidden stories," says Nick Broomfield of his latest project, Kurt And Courtney, his drawling English vowels tanned with West Coast inflexions from ...
Comment by Tom Cox, Guardian Unlimited, 5 April 1999
ROCK KILLS. The list of victims is too long and depressing to print here. We still raise an eyebrow when another tortured Narcissus bites the ...
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 2000
WHEN ROCK stars die, it's usually as a result of living too well, taking too much, going too fast, getting too high. ...
Sylvia says: bring me Nirvana or bring me death
Comment by Sylvia Patterson, The Face, November 2000
"WHAT THE FUCK is THAT?!?' shuddered Ali, a ferociously opinionated psychiatric nurse, being forcefully towed into a half-full tent at a summer festival, eyebrows twisting ...
Retrospective and Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, May 2001
The plan was simple: make a raw, honest punk album within 14 days. Then big business intervened. The troubled story of Nirvana's In Utero. ...
Comment by Michael Goldberg, Neumu, 1 September 2001
Ten years on, we search interviews and books for clues to the mystery of music that once shook the world. ...
Nirvana, Courtney Love: Live Through This: American Rock Music In The Nineties By Everett True
Book Review by Carol Clerk, Uncut, October 2001
Marking the 10th anniversary of Nevermind, True relives a turbulent life in grunge and Gullick and Sweet share their photographs ...
Burn Baby Burn! Sub Pop's 1989 tour of Europe
Retrospective and Interview by Keith Cameron, Q, March 2002
Started: Riverside, Newcastle, 23 October 1989 Finished: Astoria, London, 3 December 1989 Bands: Nirvana, Tad ...
Essay by Barney Hoskyns, Observer Music Monthly, June 2002
Why Kurt Cobain's legacy is worth fighting – or at least waiting – for ...
Kurt’s Chronicler: An Chat With Charles R. Cross
Interview by Alvaro Costa, Rock's Backpages, December 2002
Alvaro Costa checks in with the author of the acclaimed Heavier Than Heaven. ...
Retrospective by Keith Cameron, MOJO, January 2003
Nirvana's metamorphosis from callow punk geeks to the globe-stomping rock phenomenon of Nevermind took little more than a year. In between lay a chaotic tale ...
Review by Nick Southall, Stylus, 1 September 2003
HAVE WARHOL'S predictions (desires) come true? Is art now pop and is pop now art? Can either be considered real or worthy or authentic? It ...
Kurt Cobain and Sid Vicious: Death and Glory
Essay by Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, 1 February 2004
"Thank you all from the pit of my burning nauseous stomach." – Extract from Kurt Cobain's suicide note ...
It's True, I Did Kill Kurt Cobain
Memoir by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 5 April 2004
It is ten years since the rock icon shot himself. This critic recalls meeting with his wife, Courtney Love, shortly before his death ...
Interview by Roy Trakin, Hits, 14 April 2004
NIRVANA'S ALBUM NEVERMIND was out about two weeks on Oct. 9, 1991, when I conducted the following phone interview with Kurt Cobain. ...
Nirvana's 'You Know You're Right'
Retrospective by Gillian G. Gaar, MOJO, May 2004
ON SATURDAY, September 21, 2002, Nirvana's 'You Know You're Right' was leaked on the internet. ...
Talkin 'Bout My Generations: The defining artists of pop's five decades
Comment by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 12 November 2004
As voting closes on the UK Music Hall of Fame, Gavin Martin chooses his top artists from each of the past five decades. ...
Nirvana: With the Lights Out (DGC)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Observer Music Monthly, 12 December 2004
THE DOMINANT MOTIF of Nineties rock was backward time travel. In the UK, the likes of Supergrass and Oasis seemed to have discovered The Beatles ...
Review by Marc Weingarten, Uncut, January 2005
At last, the Cobain motherlode: three CDs and one DVD, with 81 songs, 68 unreleased. ...
Nirvana: With the Lights Out (Geffen/UME)
Review by Will Hermes, Spin, January 2005
A decade later, Kurt Cobain's last words ...
Nirvana: Good Riffs, Good Drumming, Great Screaming!
Retrospective and Interview by Gillian G. Gaar, MOJO, January 2005
Good Riffs, Good Drumming, Great Screaming!... that's how producer Jack Endino recalls Nirvana's first proper studio stint. Three hours and 10 songs later, Kurt Cobain ...
Nirvana: The Betrayal Of Olympia
Retrospective and Interview by Everett True, Plan B, May 2005
How the home of K Records, Sub Pop, Riot Grrrl and the punk rock librarians gave rise to Nirvana, and became subsumed into the myth ...
Interview by Stevie Chick, MOJO, July 2005
Grooving on Led Zep, dossing with mud-wrestlers, he joined the "fucking dark" world of Nirvana a goofy naif and left it a rock star. "I ...
Extract from Nirvana: The True Story (Omnibus Press)
Book Excerpt by Everett True, Nirvana: The True Story (Omnibus), 2006
No music writer in the world was closer to Nirvana than Melody Maker's Everett True, who saw them perform on over 70 occasions, interviewed them ...
Scream And Scream Again: Dave Grohl
Book Excerpt by Jeff Apter, 'The Dave Grohl Story' (Omnibus Press) , 2006
In 1987, DC hopeful Dave Grohl finally scored what he thought was the best gig in the world: drumming for hardcore legends Scream. But what ...
Profile and Interview by Dan Gennoe, Mail On Sunday, 16 September 2007
DAVE GROHL IS TIRED. Pulling a back-crunching, jaw-cranking comedy stretch, he twists, grits his immaculate white teeth and let's out a little squeak. Finished, he ...
Dave Grohl: Captain Good Vibes
Profile and Interview by Keith Cameron, Brisbane Times, 6 October 2007
THE DALMACIA HOTEL in Hammersmith, west London, is clean but frills-free. That it can offer competitively priced triple rooms means its clientele sometimes includes rock ...
Retrospective by Keith Cameron, Q, May 2009
THE SMALL WOODEN BUILDING at 4230 Leary Way NW, in the residential Seattle district of Ballard, didn't look like the epicentre of a revolution. But ...
Nirvana: Live At Reading and other live albums
Review by James Medd, The Word, December 2009
They keep saying this is the golden age of live music. So why don't live albums sound as good as they used to? Nirvana: Live At ...
Krist Novoselic and the beatification of Nirvana
Report and Interview by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 5 May 2011
Once the enfants terribles of the Seattle rock underground, Nirvana have now been exalted by the city elders. Bassist Krist Novoselic talks about becoming a ...
Ten Myths About Grunge, Nirvana and Kurt Cobain
Guide by Everett True, The Guardian, 24 August 2011
KURT COBAIN loved Abba, wasn't from Seattle and didn't invent grunge. Everett True, the man who pushed the singer's wheelchair on stage for his last ...
Smells Like a Sellout: Nirvana and the Death of Alternative Rock
Essay by Toby Creswell, Rock's Backpages, September 2011
NOWADAYS EVERYBODY ascribes the collapse of the recording industry to illegal downloading. But as Bob Dylan recently observed, "Remember when that Napster guy came up ...
Danny Goldberg: Serving the Servant – Remembering Kurt Cobain (Ecco)
Book Review by Michael Simmons, L.A. Weekly, 12 April 2019
MUSIC BIZ macher, political activist and author Danny Goldberg's new book is Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain (Ecco), a reminiscence of his time as ...
The 30 best live concert albums of all time
Guide by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 22 April 2020
LAST WEEK, A STORY appeared in the New York Times that predicted that live music would not return to the world's stages until the autumn ...
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