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Foo Fighters star Dave Grohl reveals why he nearly quit making music

Dave Grohl almost walked away from the music business in the mid-90s.

BANG Premier

“These songs are played a lot. They’re often not played well”: Top 10 riffs played in-store at Guitar Center revealed

And Stairway To Heaven is conspicuous by its absence

MusicRadar

“These songs are played a lot. They’re often not played well”: Guitar Center reveals the 10 most-played guitar riffs in its stores – and no, Stairway to Heaven isn’t one of them

CEO Gabe Dalporto surveyed GC staff to discover the riffs that torment them on a daily basis – but some surprisingly big names don’t get a look-in

Guitar World

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‘Major labels are trying to scoop up everything’: the chaotic future for indie music companies – and why vinyl isn’t working

As stalwarts Sub Pop and Rough Trade celebrate big anniversaries, insiders speak candidly about the challenges they face. Can streaming ever ensure their survival?

The Guardian - UK

“One of the few times Axl and I ever went out in public was to see Nirvana in Hollywood. And then people say grunge killed Guns N’ Roses”: Slash on the alternative rock revolution – and the groundbreaking album that blew Axl Rose’s mind

“I was never a big Pearl Jam fan, but Soundgarden was great”

MusicRadar

“You thought, ‘Who are these people?’ They've only been playing for a year, and they're proud that they can't play”: Adrian Smith on how Nirvana and grunge negatively impacted Iron Maiden's career trajectory in the ’90s

The heavy metal guitarist looks back on how the pop culture and subculture paradigm shift impacted Maiden

Guitar World

"I felt misunderstood by the German music industry. They called me too extreme." From Eminem teaching her about authenticity to the Nirvana song that made her pick up a guitar, this is the soundtrack to Mimi Barks' life

Nu gen provocateur Mimi Barks talks us through the songs that have defined her life

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“I didn’t think Pat would be our guitar player. I just sent him a tape. And he was like, ‘Oh my god, it’s so poppy’”: How Pat Smear surprised Dave Grohl and joined the Foo Fighters

These songs were absolutely not In Utero part II as Dave Grohl gamed-out his post-Nirvana musical future

Guitar World

"The Ramones rescued rock 'n' roll." How Ramones' first album changed the lives of punk rock icons Henry Rollins, Bob Mould, Ian MacKaye and Steve Albini, in their own words

On April 23, 1976 Sire Records released a punk rock record that changed everything

Louder

"I wrote a lot of the tracks envisioning powerful live drumming – enter Dave Grohl." How the former Nirvana drummer shaped the sound of Nine Inch Nails' album With Teeth

Trent Reznor wanted his drummer to play like Dave Grohl on their 2005 album, so he got the Foo Fighter frontman stop by the studio instead

Metal Hammer

“I don't think Kurt really dug me. I think he stayed away from me because I was a pretty high octane individual”: Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin recalls the heady days of the early ’90s

“I had a huge respect for him as a musician”

MusicRadar

90s rock icon Bob Mould: ‘When Cobain died, I pulled the plug – there was nothing worth saving’

Mould’s fearsomely loud power trio Sugar rode the wave of grunge, but called it quits when the scene lost its innocence. Now the band are reuniting – before it’s too late

The Guardian - UK

There's now a massive archive of thousands of indie rock gig recordings online, and it's awesome

Want to listen to Nirvana, Nick Cave, Sonic Youth or The Cure gigs from the '80s and '90s? Allow us to introduce you to your favourite new online archive

Louder

"We learned everything from the Wipers." The story behind the obscure debut album which inspired Nirvana's Kurt Cobain and changed the sound of Seattle rock

"They started the Seattle sound 15 years too early" - Kurt Cobain

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Guitar World

Watch Alice Cooper deliver a shock rock version of Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit, with some help from new guitarist Anna Cara

The shock rock icon gave a grunge anthem a creepy twist at the 28th edition of Coopstock over the weekend

Guitar World

“Own a piece of grunge history”: The backline used on Nirvana’s Bleach tour is to be auctioned off today

The slew of Fender, Marshall, and Ampeg gear powered the tour for the band’s warts n’ all debut album at the turn of the ‘90s

Euronews

From Nirvana to Tracy Chapman: A fan's recordings of over 10,000 concerts are being preserved online

A music fan from Chicago taped thousands of concerts over four decades. These recordings are now being uploaded to an online archive that can be freely accessed.

The Independent UK

The fan who secretly recorded Nirvana’s debut performance in 1989

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The Independent UK

Volunteers turn a fan’s recordings of 10,000 concerts into an online treasure trove

In 1989, an up-and-coming band called Nirvana played in Chicago. Aadam Jacobs was there

The Independent UK

Why Courtney Love is calling out Dave Grohl – again

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The Independent UK

Courtney Love urges Dave Grohl to publicly squash their years-long feud: ‘Be man enough to man up’

Love and Grohl sued one another over Nirvana’s business dealing in the Nineties

BANG Premier

Courtney Love begs Dave Grohl to do one thing to stop his fans 'picking on her'

Courtney Love has made a plea to Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl after their decades-long feud.

GamesRadar

Marathon boss cryptically suggests the game is too hard, outright confirms "we have some iterations / big balance changes brewing right now"

"It's fun to lose," is it?

Guitar World

“He had a knife to my groin. I was petrified. He went for my guitar”: Mikael Åkerfeldt on nearly losing his prized PRS on the way to record a landmark Opeth album – and why he doesn’t deserve a signature model (even though he’s got one)

The Opeth mastermind on being robbed as they made Blackwater Park, what he hated about Kurt Cobain’s ’53 Martin D-18 and loved about Hank Williams’ ’40s D-18, the ’90s band he still adores and the ’70s guitarist he still worships

Louder

"By writing obsessively in my diary I was admitting, This is madness, you are in danger, be careful." Hole, Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur on surviving the '90s, love, loss, and her brilliant memoir Even The Good Girls Will Cry

"There was a lot of pain from all the death and drugs and corporate destruction"

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