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DARK SECRETS: 2 - The Real Truth

"She eyes me like a Pisces when I am weak." The story behind Nirvana's darkest and most disturbing love song, Heart-Shaped Box

How Courtney Love and Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon provided inspiration for one of the greatest songs of the grunge era

Louder · Jul 28

"I would go, I'll take Nirvana and Soundgarden and you can have Limp Bizkit and Korn." Melvins frontman Buzz Osborne loves annoying Mike Patton by blaming Faith No More's vocalist for inspiring the birth of nu metal

Want to wind up Mike Patton? Here's one way guaranteed to get his goat

Metal Hammer · Jul 17

Pixies declare Dave Grohl was ‘right’ about their ‘perfect’ album

The band’s guitarist and drummer have endorsed Dave Grohl’s glowing praise for Surfer Rosa while also sharing an update on their plans to write more music later this year.

BANG Premier · Jul 16

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"The performance racked up over 25,000 viewer complaints as middle England soiled its collective pants." 10 times rock bands totally ruined Top Of The Pops

From Nirvana refusing to mime properly to Manic Street Preachers inadvertently sparking IRA hysteria, Top Of The Pops hosted some unforgettable moments for rock bands

Louder · Jul 15

“Kurt would always say, ‘I’m gonna get a Chet Atkins.’ But he never did. It wasn’t until he died that I went and looked at one”: Courtney Love refused to turn Celebrity Skin into “a grieving widow’s memoir” – but she paid tribute with the gear she played

With Celebrity Skin, Love shifted Hole's musical direction and created their final opus, in the midst of great tragedy

Guitar World · Jul 14

‘Unchained Melody makes me want to live out my Swayze fantasies’: Gary Jarman’s honest playlist

The Cribs man had a youthful Bee Gees obsession and loves one particular 80s power ballad. But which song does he say is too rude for his funeral?

The Guardian - UK · Jul 12

80 Memes About Life In The 1990s That Might Make You Feel Like You Went Through A Time Machine (New Pics)

The 1990s was a magical time. Whether you were in elementary school, college, or having your first kid during that decade, looking back on it should still fill you with nostalgia. So if you're interested in experiencing a blast from the past, here's a list of '90s memes that might…

Bored Panda · Jul 10

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Nirvana and Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl says Kurt Cobain would've loved this new anime about gay girls

Nirvana's song Breed is the opening tune for a beloved yuri series' anime

Total Film · Jul 6

‘I was there!’ Writers remember legendary gigs by Beyoncé, Brian Wilson, Britney, Oasis, Daft Punk and more

What’s it like to catch a gig so great it goes down in history? Our writers relive incredible performances by everyone from Amy Winehouse at the North Sea jazz festival to Kanye West at Glastonbury

The Guardian - UK · Jul 6

"I thought we sounded great, then I heard the recording. I was mortified!" The story behind Foo Fighters' secret first show

"I remember it being such a huge relief that we just made it to the end"

Louder · Jul 3

“We’ve got a new drummer, his name is Dave, he’s the best drummer in the world!”: How Dave Grohl delivered the incredible Smells Like Teen Spirit drum track

The drum part that introduced Nirvana and a drummer named Dave Grohl to the world was released back in 1991

MusicRadar · Jul 3

“I’m like, ‘I don’t know, man! I’m in Arizona!’” In 1993, Kurt Cobain asked Sepultura man Max Cavalera where to get heroin in Brazil

When trying to score drugs at a South American festival, Nirvana’s leader turned to what he believed to be a local expert

Metal Hammer · Jul 1

“Oh God, it’s hard to listen to.” The story behind Nirvana’s final song, You Know You’re Right

On January 30, 1994, Nirvana entered the studio for the last time. The song the trio taped that day would become the subject of a bitter legal battle

Louder · Jun 29

"Let’s not be grunge. Let’s be more like the Beach Boys. But loud." How Weezer's Rivers Cuomo wrote the perfect power-pop song but almost shelved it

Producer Ric Ocasek convinced the Weezer frontman to include the song Buddy Holly on the band's debut album

Louder · Jun 28

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Louder · Jun 25

10 cruelly over-looked alt. rock albums from 1996 that should have been massive in a fair and just world

Thirty years on, a salute to 10 brilliant records from 1996 that deserved better

Louder · Jun 23

"Music is always interesting when no one knows where the hell it came from." Steve Coogan on the game-changing impact of Nirvana and The Smiths, and why he loves both bands

"When Nirvana released Nevermind, that just redefined everything"

Louder · Jun 23

When Aerosmith's Steven Tyler offered to help Kurt Cobain kick heroin, the response from Nirvana's frontman was savage

Aerosmith's Steven Tyler offered to help Kurt Cobain kick his habit, got verbally slapped down

Louder · Jun 22

Revisiting the seven weeks in 1991 that changed music history forever

The 80s weren’t dead and the 90s hadn’t really begun. This is the story of how seven weeks of summer in 1991 belonged to rock (and not just grunge)

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Guitar World · Jun 17

“We started talking about Black Sabbath, and Buzz goes, ‘You know they did this thing called drop D.’ We said, ‘What’s that?’” Kim Thayil on how Soundgarden took rock guitar into the superunknown – and the unfinished Chris Cornell tapes

With the Soundgarden guitarist‘s memoir, A Screaming Life, out now, he unpacks the story behind one of the most influential rock bands of the ’90s

Louder · Jun 16

"By the time you get to the end, it's like, Okay, that's a classic." Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan recalls the first time he heard Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit

The night that Butch Vig played Billy Corgan an unreleased cassette of Nirvana's Nevermind album

Guitar World · Jun 15

“That is the most ‘Seattle’ riff I’ve ever heard in my life”: The recording of Nirvana's Bleach – and the band's “ultimate grunge song”

Recorded in four sessions in December 1988 for just $606.17, Bleach would signal the primal quality and rawness that came to define the grunge movement

Louder · Jun 12

How the band David Bowie called “a psychotic Beatles”made the '80s weirdest and most influential alternative rock album

Nirvana's Kurt Cobain admitted it, but pretty much every single alt. rock band has 'borrowed' from Pixies' 1988 masterpiece Surfer Rosa

Louder · Jun 10

“Of any song that I've ever written, it's most blatantly about my time in Nirvana.” The story behind the Foo Fighters song Dave Grohl wrote about his Nirvana bandmates while crashing on Kurt Cobain's couch

Dave Grohl's tender tribute to Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain

Louder · Jun 10

"I have to get people to slap me across the face in case it’s all just been a dream." For the first nine years of their career, No Doubt were seen as a joke. But when they released Tragic Kingdom, no-one was laughing at them anymore

An archive interview with No Doubt from 1997, as the world started falling at their feet

Metal Hammer · May 31

Watch Dave Grohl join Sepultura onstage in Los Angeles to jam on a 90s classic

The Foo Fighters frontman joined the Sepultura at the Wiltern Theater in LA to add drums on Kaiowas

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