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10 essential live rock and metal albums from the ’90s

The ’90s were a golden era for box office productions from Page & Plant and AC/DC, not to mention a certain era-defining acoustic set from Nirvana

Guitar World

"Circus magazine said, 'If Lee's voice was any higher and raspier, his audience would consist exclusively of dogs and extraterrestrials": Watch Geddy Lee read from his memoir My Effin' Life onstage in Seattle with Nirvana's Krist Novoselic

Geddy Lee has a suggestion for you if you don't like his singing voice, and it's a pleasingly unfiltered suggestion

Louder

"I never realised how funky Dave was!": Watch a jazz professor at elite music school Juilliard try to play Dave Grohl's drum parts on Nirvana classic In Bloom without having ever heard the song

Dave Grohl thought that no-one spotted his funk influences on Nevermind, but it turns out he was wrong

Metal Hammer

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“Geordie was a true inventor of a massive sound that has influenced so damn many of us”: Killing Joke guitarist Geordie Walker has died, aged 64

Tributes pour in for the post-punk trailblazer whose influence was felt far and wide across rock and metal, with the likes of Metallica and Nirvana indebted to his vision for guitar

Guitar World

Geordie Walker, Killing Joke’s pioneering guitarist and co-founder, dies aged 64

Guitarist joined the band in 1979 and, along with frontman Jaz Coleman, was their only sole constant member

The Independent UK

Killing Joke guitarist Geordie Walker dead at 64

Killing Joke’s Kevin ‘Geordie’ Walker, one of the most influential and respected guitarists of the post-punk era, has died

Metal Hammer

10 moments of genius from MTV Unplugged

As Nirvana’s iconic set turns 30, we pick out the ten best songs from the famous sessions

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“We knew we didn’t want to do an acoustic version of Teen Spirit, that would’ve been horrendously stupid”: Revisiting Nirvana’s iconic MTV Unplugged performance 30 years on

The grunge icons did the show their way - and it was one for the ages

Louder

10 cover versions that are way more popular than the originals (according to Spotify)

The Beatles, Bowie, Bob Dylan and Stevie Wonder have all seen covers of their songs become more popular than the original version

Louder

“So many people don't understand how, as a lead player, I could idolize someone like Kurt Cobain, but for me, it's also about the songwriting and passion”: Nikki Stringfield has more up her sleeve than glorious shredding with the Iron Maidens

Fresh off the release of her solo debut, Apocrypha, the Schecter signature artist dishes on her love of the Kemper Profiler, the first Iron Maiden riff she learned, and the lasting impact of grunge on her guitar approach

Guitar World

"Even before we got to the day of the show, there was a ‘concern’… a concern with Liam" – the story behind the farce and the glory of Oasis’s infamous 1996 MTV Unplugged performance

Riding high after playing to 250,000 people at Knebworth, Oasis set about rehearsing for a very different kind of show – an intimate MTV Unplugged performance from the Royal Festival Hall. But within days, it was clear all was not going to plan…

MusicRadar

Universal Audio's new plugin captures the sound of one of the most famous studios in rock 'n' roll history, where Nirvana, Metallica and Fleetwood Mac all recorded

The Sound City Studios plugin is a painstaking emulation of the space and the gear that gave rise to Nirvana's Nevermind and countless other classic records

MusicRadar

Kurt Cobain's 'Skystang I' Fender Mustang guitar fails to eclipse his record-breaking Competition Stripe model at auction

But it still fetched over $1.5million

MusicRadar

Kurt Cobain guitars now account for 3 of the top 10 most expensive guitars sold at auction as the ‘Sky Stang I’ Fender Mustang used in Nirvana’s final performance sells for $1.5 million

The value of Kurt Cobain-associated guitar sales on the list now more than doubles that of his nearest competitor, David Gilmour

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“We could never be Nirvana, but we could make an album that would fit in with the times without us looking like stupid old farts”: how Def Leppard survived tragedy, grunge and the turbulent 1990s to make two of their most underrated albums

Def Leppard were one of the most successful rock bands of the 1980s. The 1990s was a different matter

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The history of rock band logos, from the 1960s to the present day

From The Beatles to today's biggest bands, this is how rock band logos continue to evolve.

The Independent UK

Eric Clapton’s psychedelic ‘Fool’ guitar sells for more than £1m at auction

The 1964 Gibson SG electric guitar sold for 1,270,000 dollars.

Metal Hammer

The guitar Kurt Cobain played at Nirvana's last show is up for auction, with an estimated price-tag of two million dollars

If the thought of owning Kurt Cobain's Fender Mustang guitar, aka 'Sky-Stang I', appeals, you might want to set two million dollars aside this weekend

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10 underrated ’90s guitar albums that should have been bigger

Overlooked and under-appreciated, these ’90s gems deserve a second listen

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"I went up to Dave and said, I don’t understand what the problem is": Bush's Gavin Rossdale on how he and Dave Grohl buried the hatchet on their '90s feud

Observers of '90s rock feuds will be delighted to hear that the 'beef' between Foo Fighters and Bush has been amicably quashed

The Guardian - UK

Musical mysteries: the unlikely album cover stars who became modern pop enigmas

As the old man on Led Zeppelin’s fourth album artwork is identified, we take a look at albums that are as famous for the faces on their sleeves as their music

Louder

"We had an A&R person at Geffen saying, 'You guys can be the Pink Floyd of the underground.' I was, like, No, we can’t." Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore remembers Nirvana and 'The Year That Punk Broke'

Thurston Moore: "When I was putting this book together my agent basically said, Give me your Kurt chapter"

Metal Hammer

“We were the same side of the coin – we were just different coins." Eddie Vedder on Kurt Cobain, and the time they slow danced together

The Pearl Jam frontman reflects on his complex relationship with Kurt Cobain

Louder

Watch the the hilariously weird moment that Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers played a trumpet solo with Nirvana

Watch the Red Hot Chili Peppers man lend his brass skills to Smells Like Teen Spirit at a festival in Brazil in 1993

Guitar World

“Springsteen taught me how to write songs, but Pearl Jam, Dinosaur Jr., Fugazi and Sonic Youth taught me how to play those songs I’d learned to write”: Brian Fallon is breaking out the guitar solos for The Gaslight Anthem’s second coming

Brian Fallon and co. bring the noise – and the solos – on their first album since reforming. And they invited Bruce Springsteen along for the ride

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