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The surprising secret behind Kurt Cobain’s guitar tone on Nirvana’s In Utero has been discovered, 30 years on from its release

And it’s not a magic pedal, magic amp or a magic guitar...

Guitar World

"Food was flying everywhere, with no regard for the industry geeks whose suits were getting splattered": That time Nirvana got kicked out of their Nevermind release party for starting a drunken food fight

Prior to the release of Nevermind, Nirvana were kicked out of their own album listening party for drunken shenanigans involving guacamole, smuggled bourbon and vomit

Louder

The evolution of Steve Albini: ‘If the dumbest person is on your side, you’re on the wrong side’

The long read: Steve Albini was long synonymous with the indie underground, playing in revered bands and recording albums by the Pixies, PJ Harvey and Nirvana. He also often seemed determined to offend as many people as possible. What led him to reassess his past?

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Eddie Van Halen, Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page are some of guitar’s greatest trailblazers – learn their styles and level up your playing with this rock guitar deep-dive

The styles of Slash, Eric Clapton, Ritchie Blackmore and a suite of other rock gods are placed under the microscope for this comprehensive lesson – tabs and audio included

Guitar World

"Red Hot Chili Peppers are being used by the Satanic powers of darkness": How Anthony Kiedis incurred the wrath of evangelical Christians, and his granny, at the 1992 MTV Awards

Do Red Hot Chili Peppers really "pay homage to Satan"? Only Anthony Kiedis truly knows

Metal Hammer

"Red Hot Chili Peppers are being used by the Satanic powers of darkness": How a silly joke at the 1992 MTV Awards landed Anthony Kiedis in trouble with Christians and his granny

Are you aware that Red Hot Chili Peppers "pay homage to Satan"? Us neither, but Anthony Kiedis only has himself to blame

Metal Hammer

“My guitar playing in itself is crude and extremely simple, but whole sonic worlds grow out of it”: Swans influenced everyone from Nirvana to Tool, but Michael Gira still doesn't see himself as a guitarist

A truly singular talent, the founder of the cult experimental rock outfit “can't play a single thing written by anyone else” and relies on a battered Guild acoustic that “sounds like s**t” – but he wouldn't have it any other way

Guitar World

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“Kurt took the guitar and carved the word ‘SICK’ at the bottom of it”: Two years before he started Nirvana, Kurt Cobain inscribed his friend’s Teisco guitar – now it’s headed for auction

The Teisco Del Ray EV-2T and a Cobain-owned Franciscan acoustic are the latest instruments associated with the Nirvana man to hit the market

Guitar World

"Sick! So punk!": Luxury fashion brand Saint Laurent is selling second-hand Nirvana T-shirts for thousands of pounds

Psst! Wanna buy a grunge T-shirt? That'll be ONE MILLION POUNDS please sucker

Metal Hammer

"I just carried all this anger and horror." From his grandmother's experiences in Nazi Germany scarring his childhood to Godflesh being labelled the 'new Nirvana', Justin Broadrick is an extreme music icon like no other

Justin Broadrick's work has influenced everyone from Faith No More to Metallica, yet a recent diagnosis has finally helped him find himself.

Metal Hammer

“They crawled up their own bums”: The album that made Butch Vig lose faith in Radiohead

The Garbage drummer and Nirvana producer was not impressed by Radiohead's 1999 album Kid A

Louder

Saint Laurent selling secondhand band T-shirts in its vintage collection

Shirts in the range, which is dominated by Nirvana designs, have sold for as much as £3,295

The Guardian - UK

We Failed Amy Winehouse

Dead for over a decade, the iconic singer-songwriter has never gotten the same due as her male counterparts

The Walrus

"He’s a desperate, untalented piece of s***": Nirvana on the time Bon Jovi wanted to look like them

In this 1993 interview, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain rails against the "desperate" rock dinosaurs looking to him for fresh inspiration

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These are the rock and metal songs that have achieved a billion or more streams on Spotify

Queen, AC/DC, Nirvana, Journey, and who else? The rock tracks that have achieved over one billion streams on Spotify

The Guardian - UK

In the 90s, we worried about Nirvana ‘selling out’. I wish that concept still made sense

Big data has helped the music industry sell us only what we already like – but the results are less alive and less surprising, says Montana-based writer Dan Brooks

MusicRadar

"It sounds exactly like the record" – guitarist nails Kurt Cobain's Nirvana In Utero distorted tones with two pedals, a Fender amp and some insider information

Aaron Rash's two-year tone odyssey pays off

Metal Hammer

10 terrible grunge albums with one classic song

Grunge brought us some classic albums, but a lot of stinkers, too. Luckily, these poor efforts were all saved by one brilliant song

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“He loves you guys. He doesn’t like anybody, but he loves you guys”: Joe Perry on the time he met Kurt Cobain – and Aerosmith’s unlikely influence on Nirvana

The Aerosmith man once met Kurt Cobain backstage in Seattle, but says the Nirvana frontman was almost non-verbal

Guitar World

Kurt Cobain-signed 1966 Fender Jaguar, Elvis Presley’s Rosewood Telecaster head up bumper guitar auction

A Gibson Sonex signed by Steve Vai, Warren Haynes, Eric Johnson, Al Di Meola and many more can also be found in the mammoth auction catalog

Metal Hammer

Remembering the time MTV got a bunch of unsuspecting college students to review Nirvana's In Utero

Nirvana's third and final record, In Utero, got a mixed report from students when MTV headed to a college campus in 1993

Metal Hammer

10 non-famous bands who have the same name as a way more famous band

The psychedelic Nirvana, the thrash Poison and the early 70s Iron Maiden - come on in, your time is now

Guitar World

The world’s most expensive guitar pick? A Kurt Cobain-signed plectrum, thought to have tracked the Nevermind demos, has sold at auction for over $14,000

The pick features Cobain’s doodled take on the Dunlop Tortex logo. “I knew this piece was special when I saw it,” says buyer Shaun Ertischek

Louder

A beginner's guide to 90s UK indie in five essential albums

There was more to 90s indie than just Britpop, but it's a pretty good place to start... Here, the story of how one decade saw a genre morph beyond all recognition, told by the albums that made it happen

Metal Hammer

"It gets in the way of originality": Why Kurt Cobain thought it was a bad idea to get good at guitar

In this rare interview from 1993, Kurt Cobain explains to a reporter why he was never interested in honing his craft when it came to the guitar

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