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“Sick”: In 1985, Kurt Cobain carved one word into this Teisco Del-Ray guitar. Now it has sold at auction for $153,000

The instrument recently sold at auction for a price that far exceeded the $10,000 minimum bid

Guitar World

"It would just have reminded me of being back in Nirvana. It would have been sad, for me personally": Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl on why he turned down joining Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty once asked Dave Grohl to become an official Heartbreaker, but the Foo Fighters frontman wasn't keen

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The super rare Fender amp that Kurt Cobain used on In Utero

The 4x12 Fender Quad Reverb was only made for four years in the 1970s – and Cobain's was a very specific version

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"We kept the groupies and drug dealers away": Steve Albini on the making of In Utero, Nirvana's bleak, beautiful swansong

The unimaginable success of Nevermind made Nirvana the world's most reluctant and confused rock stars. Steve Albini looks back on what Kurt Cobain's band did next, and the birth of their dark masterpiece In Utero

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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...

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"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

Boss DS-1 vs Boss DS-2: What’s the difference?

Considering one of these iconic Boss distortion pedals? Here's everything you need to know before you take the plunge

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His underrated guitar playing influenced everyone from the Beatles to Nirvana – here's how Lead Belly used his 12-string skills to play his way out of prison

Huddie Ledbetter's magnetic musical talent got him an early release from a hellish Texas prison – yet his full impact on 20th century guitar playing is often overlooked

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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

Sleepless In Seattle at 30 — retrace the Tom Hanks classic with this city guide

The Washington State hub has transformed since the film’s 1993 release. Beverley Watts presents a guide to the Emerald City

Evening Standard

Sunn’s first official drop revives amps used by Adam Jones, Kurt Cobain and Jimi Hendrix

The Beta Lead and 100S are back, and they're joined by a host of bass heads, speaker cabs and monitors

Guitar World

Jim Irsay, owner of some of the world’s most iconic guitars, says he was offered over $1 billion to sell his collection and relocate it to Dubai

The Indianapolis Colts owner’s guitar collection includes Kurt Cobain’s Smells Like Teen Spirit Mustang and David Gilmour’s Black Strat

Guitar World

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

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"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

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

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"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

Guitar World

“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

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"It was a lot of work writing this book. I'm not gonna say it was easy. I was a mess": Bikini Kill/Le Tigre's Kathleen Hanna announces 'raw and insightful' memoir Rebel Girl

Bikini Kill / Le Tigre icon Kathleen Hanna to publish Rebel Girl memoir next year

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

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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

Inverse

How Depression Affects People Even at the Linguistic Level

From the way you move and sleep, to how you interact with people around you, depression changes just about everything.

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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

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