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Ozzy Osbourne 1948 - 2025

A true musical icon, Ozzy Osbourne was one of the architects of our world, the self-styled Prince Of Darkness who brought joy to millions, and inspired generations of musicians across the globe. We will never see his like again. This is his remarkable story

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“Icontend that I was the first person to actually have a Super Fuzz Big Muff – before the rest of the boys”: How Courtney Love created the grunge classic that was released during her darkest hour

Hole’s song Violet came out just a week after Kurt Cobain’s suicide

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"When we worked with Kurt, I thought, 'What does a producer do?'": Melvins’ Buzz Osborne reckons Kurt Cobain was sacked rather than quit

The grunge/sludge hero just delivered his take on how producer Kurt Cobain came to part ways with the band

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44 ‘Today I Learned’ Facts That Prove It’s Never Too Late To Learn Something New

Let's celebrate knowledge together and learn some new and intriguing facts to sharpen our minds.

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38 Important, Interesting And Random Events That Happened 30 Years Ago, As Shared On This Nostalgic Online Group

If you're feeling old now, wait until you scroll through this collection of pics featuring events that turned 30.

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"There was something about the way he carried himself. He quite clearly was going to shine": The early years of Soundgarden's Chris Cornell

As Soundgarden broke out of the Seattle scene, Chris Cornell stood apartfrom his peers: a rock god among grunge’s iconoclasts

Metal Hammer

Ahead of Oasis' tour, a look at famous and brief band reunions: Nirvana, Outkast and more

The Britpop band Oasis will reunite for a 2025 world tour kicking off Friday in Cardiff, Wales

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50 Funny And Relatable ‘90s Posts That Define An Entire Generation

Which one of these throwbacks made you go, “OMG I totally forgot about that”?

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‘Our stage is a giant pair of open legs!’ Meet Glastonbury’s most obscure acts

It’s not all about the headliners. Away from the big stages, feminist punks are singing songs about UTIs and Elvis has been reborn as Kurt Cobain

The Guardian - UK

“As great as it undoubtedly was, the bug-eyed insanity of thrash was nowhere to be heard in any of its songs”: How Metallica’s Black Album killed thrash metal

The band that helped create thrash pretty much killed it

Metal Hammer

“To have Kurt’s beautiful voice over one of my songs would have been amazing”: the story behind every track on Foo Fighters’ monumental debut album

It’s 30 years since Dave Grohl kicked off a game-changing second act, and this was the record that started it all.

Louder

“Tubes are overrated. And you never know what you’re going to get overseas. I can’t play through a Marshall JCM – they sound like crap”: Sludge titans Thou have never been afraid to tear up the rulebook – but they do need a spreadsheet for their tunings

Andy Gibbs and Matthew Thudium reflect on abyssal drop tunings, their DIY ethic, silly song nicknames and the value of having a tuning spreadsheet

Guitar World

What are the 20 most controversial album covers of all time?

Don’t judge an album by its cover... Easier said than done for some. Following the controversy surrounding the album image for Sabrina Carpenter’s new album, we look at the most controversial album artworks which landed the artists in hot water with the censors. And, in some cases, the taste police.

Euronews

"Kids saw the video on MTV and thought, 'This is cool. These guys are kinda ugly and they're tearing up their high school.' It attracted some riff-raff." Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit video has now been viewed more than two billion times on YouTube

"The video was probably the key element in Smells Like Teen Spirit becoming a hit." Dave Grohl

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Guitar World

“Ever dreamed of owning a piece of Nirvana’s legacy?” A Kurt Cobain guitar pick previously sold for more than $14k – now his MTV Unplugged plectrum is being raffled off for much, much less

The raffle will help raise funds for the Royal College of Music – and it offers the chance to own a slice of music history for just the price of a coffee

MusicRadar

Your chance to win Kurt Cobain's plectrum — used during Nirvana’s legendary MTV Unplugged show

Visitors to the new London exhibition can enter the prize draw

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“They were just asking for it”: When Kurt Cobain deliberately sabotaged Nirvana’s Top of the Pops appearance

Cobain later said his mock-baritone vocal was an attempt at imitating Morrissey

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"Hardcore's answer to Nirvana's Nevermind." Turnstile's Never Enough is a landmark record for alternative music and an instant, undeniable classic

With their fourth album, Turnstile have confirmed themselves as the most important and daring band to have emerged from the hardcore scene in decades

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The Independent UK

Great clothes, cool music and no social media. Was this the last ‘best decade ever’?

LET’S UNPACK THAT: People everywhere, it seems, are nostalgic for the Nineties. Well, they looked and sounded good, says Adam White, but not everything was rosy – and every decade since has been ruined by the internet

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“The last thing you want to do is play a widdly-widdly riff that’s getting in the way of the vocal”: Those Damn Crows’ Ian ‘Shiner’ Thomas on how to write a No.1 album, what he learned from Nirvana, and the Slipknot riff he wished he wrote

With the Welsh rockers' latest album, God Shaped Hole, topping the charts, we check in with riff-master Shiner to talk song structure, grunge inspirations, and knowing when not to play

Guitar World

“I was really fortunate that I got to work with Kurt. He had a real ear for a hook – playing bass with him was super-easy”: Krist Novoselic achieved harmony through Kurt Cobain’s chaos –and was the making of this Nirvana classic

All great bands have players that fit together, and Nirvana was no exception

Euronews

Pink Floyd at Pompeii: What are the greatest live albums of all time?

This week saw the first official release on vinyl of Pink Floyd's legendary 1971 set played in Pompeii - showing to what extent the British band were once one of the greatest live acts in the world. With so many great live albums out there, we give you our Top…

Guitar World

Kurt Cobain's 1989 Takamine expected to fetch up to $500,000 at auction – alongside guitars played by the likes of Eric Clapton, Eddie Van Halen, David Bowie, Joe Perry and Melissa Etheridge

This year's Music Icons sale – organized by Julien's Auctions – includes over 700 collectible items from some of the world's biggest guitar stars

Guitar World

“Tokai’s LS series are probably the best-built Les Paul-style guitars that have ever come through my shop”: How the Japanese guitar market came of age with ’80s Fender and Gibson clones – some that would rival the originals

You can’t tell the story of the Japanese guitar industry without the story of the clones – Keith Anderson of Japanese specialist Gas Station Guitars explains the history of the high-quality knock-offs that made its reputation

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“It was like a renewal or a reawakening”: Dave Grohl was struggling after Kurt Cobain’s death. Then he wrote This Is A Call and everything changed

The story of Foo Fighters’ debut single, which turns 30 next month, and why it's the song that Dave Grohl says saved his life

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