Kurt Cobain

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Dave Grohl's SXSW Keynote: "The Musician Comes First"

In a funny, personal, F-bomb-laden keynote address at Austin's South By Southwest music conference this morning, Dave Grohl proselytized for the power of the musician's voice -- and the importance of letting artists develop on their own. Dressed in a plaid shirt, jeans, and wearing drug store readi ... More >>

Kanye West Says He's Like Picasso. Here Are 5 Equally Egomaniacal Musicians

Well, it's been a few months, so we shouldn't be all that surprised but Kanye West's ego has been running amok again. This time the behemoth emerged while West was onstage in Paris last Saturday, and said: "No matter how they try to control you, or the motherfucker next to you tries to peer pressure ... More >>

How Feedback Became the Coolest Sound in Rock

Kerrraaang! came the sound from behind my wall, in my older brother's bedroom. It was his first weekend home from college and he'd returned to our small Indiana town with new toys: a CD player and a copy of Nirvana's Nevermind. Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! The noise, which started when Kurt Cobain st ... More >>

'Smells Like Teen Spirit' Is the Stunningly Original Title of a New CBS Comedy

Hope no one has any emotional attachment to the phrase "Smells Like Teen Spirit" -- either the song, its mystique, or the band that played it -- 'cause if so, they're about to get quite a mindfuck. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is the (working) title of a new family sitcom just sold to CBS, about "an 1 ... More >>

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Van Halen's Reunion Tour Runs Aground on Reality

"Hit So Hard": Full of Drugs, Lacking Substance

The Tupac Hologram Is Terrifying and Distasteful. Let's Stop This Madness Now.

On Sunday, April 15, 2012, the world officially entered science fiction-land. Sure, iPods are pretty futuristic, GPS is spy magic from space, and we all have stupidly intelligent phones now, but nothing has felt quite as much like living in a Buck Rogers episode than when Tupac got resurrected in ho ... More >>

The Melvins' Old Van Is for Sale, But Here Are Five Tour Vehicles We'd Much Prefer

​Remember when you were 12 years old and you'd draw the logos of your favorite bands all over your school books? Well, one time, Kurt Cobain did that to The Melvins' van, leaving behind a little portrait of Kiss (plus logo) which remains to this day on the side of that piece-of-shit '72 Dodge Spor ... More >>

Comparing M.I.A.'s Super Bowl Middle Finger to Music's Greatest Bird-Flippers

Juvenile, numbskulled, pointless, banal, outrageous -- M.I.A. flipping the bird at this year's Super Bowl halftime show might have been all or none of those things, depending on whom you ask, but it was one thing above all: A surefire plot to join the ranks of the middle-finger-flashing musical elit ... More >>

Based on the New Revelations About Courtney Love, Frances Bean Cobain is Freakin' Amazing

​So, after two years and one month of speculation, and thanks to Maer Roshan's new e-book, Courtney Comes Clean, we just got a few steps closer to finding out why Frances Bean Cobain filed a temporary restraining order against her own mother, Courtney Love. According to legal statements ... More >>

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Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Five Amazing Grunge Artifacts That Time (and You) Forgot

​You stopped scrawling "World Domination" on the backs of school notebooks. You swapped your Pearl Jam Christmas singles for some Warp Records vinyl when you were graciously informed that this was the next big thing. You didn't recognize Kim Thayil in that recent photograph, what with his nav ... More >>

The Top 10 Hottest Men in Grunge

Sure, it was the era of long, dirty hair and long johns worn to the bar -- but '90s grunge sure did throw up some eye candy. Here, to honor the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's Nevermind, as well as Cameron Crowe's new Pearl Jam documentary Twenty, are the top 10 hottest men of grunge. (Tomorrow, we'll ... More >>

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Soundgarden's Reunion Tour Will Deafen San Francisco This July

Raise your hand if you miss the real '90s. ​ Short of a zombified Kurt Cobain rising from the grave in Lolita shades to sing "Heart Shaped Box" to a bunch of kids raised on Miley Cyrus and sexting, we're pretty sure this '90s revival thing has now gotten as crazy-ridiculous as it can get: Lad ... More >>

Experiencing Sandanista! While Stoned and Walking San Francisco

​ Listen to this while high: Sandinista! by The Clash​Behind the buzz: In the most literal sense, Sandinista! is the dopest punk album of all time. The Clash's fourth studio LP is a six-sided monstrosity alternately damned upon its 1980 release by purists as a sellout of punk verities, and damne ... More >>

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Video of the Day: Grand Lake's "Spark"

Shot at Twin Peaks and Lake Temescal, Grand Lake's new video for "Spark" is a perfect, shimmering visualization of the song's melodic twinkles and twangs. The video uses split screen to divide up the same scene in four shaky, simultaneous images of horsey-headed lovers, mostly frolicking at Twin P ... More >>

Medicine for Melancholy

The Vaselines’ second round of fun

'90s Night Tonight at Madrone Lounge

'90s Style Icons: the TeletubbiesAre the '90s back already? If so, is it too soon? After all, we can think of several dubious trends from that decade - grunge 'uniforms' (flannel shirts and scruffy faces), sugar-coated teenie pop (think Britney Spears, 98 Degrees, 'N Sync, Backstreet Boys), s ... More >>

It's Your Women's Professional Soccer Fashion Show!

There's just something about sports uniforms that makes men who still blithely don the flannel shirts they were wearing when they heard Kurt Cobain died feel the need to weigh in on color combinations, trim, piping, texture, and accessories. I am one of these men. This is my prized possession. I bou ... More >>

After years of drone and addiction, Earth hears the light

Pictures of Flipper with Nirvana's Krist Novoselic at Amoeba Records: LastNight

Walk Hard: The first biopic to address bad tripping with the Beatles and slicing your sibling in half

About a Son Lets Kurt Cobain Talk for Himself

Tiny Vipers

Hands Across the Void (Sub Pop)

Earth

Hibernaculum (Southern Lord)

Death Trip

Chuck Klosterman's latest book tracks his tour of rock star death sites

How Free?

A drama whose time is now

Smells Like Indie Spirit

Music that made the world safe for the word "alternative" again.

Smells Like Clean Spirit

Short Cut to Nirvana espouses enlightenment, but it's sketchy on how to get there

Elliott Smith R.I.P.

A downward spiral hits its nadir

Bird's-Eye View

Get over your phobia in time for this Vertigo-themed gala

Shop Till You Drop

Forget Kurt Cobain's Journals, and try Eminem's To-Do Lists instead

God and Country, Remixed

The Christal Methodists and Ralph Johnson turn the rhetoric of politics and religious radio against itself

House of Tudor

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Love Hate

Nick Broomfield's Courtney problem

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Beer-Soaked Lambs

Hype! surpasses its title

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