Kurt Cobain’s pop sensibilities combined with a darker, grittier and a less polished sound than the hair metal that had been dominating rock radio provided a welcome change. “Smells Like Teen Spirit” kicked it off, but songs such as “Come as You Are,”“Lithium” and “In Bloom” kep...
Cobain's life turned to one of rebellion. It's what made his music so iconoclastic. But the other ways in which he sought solace from his pain weren't as positive. By 13, he'd begun smoking weed, and six years later, he had his first taste of heroin. As the '80s turned to the...
Twenty years ago on Saturday, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain was found dead in the Seattle house he shared with his wife, Courtney Love. It appeared to be a suicide scene—there was a letter, and Kurt had shot himself—so Seattle Police did not conduct a substantia...
Louise Jury Media Correspondent
Last year, Cobain also made a clean breast of his long-rumored heroin addiction, claiming he’d used the drug — at least in part — to opiate severe, chronic stomach pain. Or as he puts it in this interview, “to medicate myself.” He’s now off the junk, and thanks t...
Experts say that it would beimpossiblefor Kurt to have shot himself with that amount of heroin having been taken. (Pictured: Courtney Love at Chris Cornell’s funeral in 2017) Reportedly, Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love were going to get divorced and they had a prenuptial agreement. So the be...
Cobain's angst-filled lyrics and his band's powerful, dark rock struck a chord with young people. Days after his death, thousands of people gathered near the Space Needle for a public memorial. An investigation determined he took a massive dose of heroin and then shot himsel...
The director opens up about what it was like working with Courtney Love and the difficulty of representing an iconic figure like Kurt Cobain
Vedder began dealing publicly with Cobain’s death on the “Saturday Night Live” show. He displayed the letter K, for Kurt, on his T-shirt and put his hand on his heart at one point, and ended the band’s “Daughter” by singing a bluesy snippet from Neil Young’s “My My, Hey ...
October 3, 2013interview, Music, newsDays of the Crazy-Wild, In Utero, interview, Krist Novoselic, Kurt Cobain, music, news, NirvanaMichael Goldberg In an interview Krist Novoselic did for a story Rolling Stone is running about In Utero, the bass player speaks about the group’s creative ...