Listen to ‘Montage of Heck,’ Kurt Cobain’s mind-blowing music montage–made years before his fame
Nobody better represented the young, angry, art school punk better than Kurt Cobain–a glance at his Journals is enough to convince that his desire to…
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Kurt Cobain asks William Burroughs to appear in a Nirvana video
In August 1993, Kurt Cobain wrote William Burroughs to ask if he would appear alongside his band Nirvana in the first video release from their…
‘Stupid Club’: Thousands gather to grieve for Kurt Cobain in Seattle park, 1994
As we near the 20th anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death–the Nirvana leader killed himself on April 5, 1994–this morning the Seattle Police Department released two…
Nirvana nightmare: Apparently Kurt Cobain is alive and well selling beer in the Netherlands
Here’s a commercial for Bavaria Radler beer where it shows the likes of Kurt Cobain, Tupac Shakur, John Lennon, Bruce Lee, Marilyn Monroe and Elvis…
Kurt Cobain on high school: ‘I always felt so different and so crazy’
A young Kurt Cobain. “I always felt that they would vote me most likely to kill everyone at a high school dance.” I know there’s…
Hello Kitty is a punk rocker: Kurt Cobain’s (other) favorite band, Shonen Knife
Kurt Cobain was loud and proud expressing his admiration for The Raincoats when asked about his favorite music. Another all-girl band he championed was Shonen…
No One’s Little Girls: The Raincoats were Kurt Cobain’s favorite band
Although I grew up in the punk era, it was really the post-punk stuff that turned my crank, and still does. During that time there…
Yukio Mishima: Japanese Literature’s Samurai Kurt Cobain (NSFW)
In his memoir Confessions of a Mask (certainly the only book I’ve ever read describable as “Proust meets Jeffrey Dahmer”), the great Japanese writer and…
When Kurt Cobain met William Burroughs
Although “The “Priest” They Called Him” might be the most obscure thing in Kurt Cobain’s discography, it’s probably the best selling musical collaboration of William…
Revered by Kurt Cobain and Eddie Vedder: Dennis Flemion of The Frogs R.I.P.
Dennis Flemion of Milwaukee duo The Frogs drowned over the weekend in Racine, Wisconsin’s Wind Lake. He was 57. Highly respected among fellow rockers like…