Kurt Cobain

2.20.07

Hello Kitty: Gretchen Bennett at Howard House

Encyclopaedia of Evil

GN'R riot; Cobain gets his own tour; 'Ben' madness; more.

Novoselic on VWs, Nevermind, and Amtrak on the Daily Weekly

Novoselic talks about Kurt Cobain at EMP.Meanwhile, over on the Daily Weekly, Krist Novoselic writes in his weekly column about fixin' up old VWs, one of which he drove down to LA to record Nevermind. I'll be you can guess what ride he picked up after the album moved a few unites. 

Accidents Will Happen: Stories From Rock Ph

Novoselic talks about Kurt Cobain at EMP.Meanwhile, over on the Daily Weekly, Krist Novoselic writes in his weekly column about fixin' up old VWs, one of which he drove down to LA to record Nevermind. I'll be you can guess what ride he picked up after the album moved a few unites. 

News Clips— Upbeat/Upended

Novoselic talks about Kurt Cobain at EMP.Meanwhile, over on the Daily Weekly, Krist Novoselic writes in his weekly column about fixin' up old VWs, one of which he drove down to LA to record Nevermind. I'll be you can guess what ride he picked up after the album moved a few unites. 

Daniel Johnston

Thursday, April 17

Kitty, Kitty

Thursday, April 17

Nirvana: Unplugged and Uncomfortable in New York

Come as you wish.

SIFF Doc Offers Rare Glimpse of Kurt Cobain in Happier Times

The movie is a meditative, impressionistic look at how our region helped shape such a unique individual.

Cobain Sat Here

The man's chair on Craigslist. Plus: Symphony and ballet news.

Kurt Cobain's a Doll

New action figure immortalizes the rock star in plastic. Plus: Compendium closes, and festival news.

Gus Van Sant

On Cobain and Last Days.

Nirvana

Also: Saint Etienne.

"From clear-cuts to strip mines, there seems to be no anti-quality-of-life issue for which Slade Gorton will not be the poster child."

Also: Saint Etienne.

Kurt Cobain's Last No.1 Hit

Decoding the dream world of his best-selling Journals.

A Way With Words

Opening Kurt Cobain's heart-shaped Pandora's box.

Days of our nights

Opening Kurt Cobain's heart-shaped Pandora's box.

Oasis ain't so bratty; Sub Pop's anniversary bash.

Opening Kurt Cobain's heart-shaped Pandora's box.

Love, among the ruins

The new documentary 'Kurt and Courtney' swims with the bottom-feeders.

White Rabbits

Monday, June 22

Live Music Roundup: Monday, June 22

I also recommend checking out the Itals' sweet reggae jams at Neumos tonight. Doors are at 8 p.m., and it's $15 . White Rabbits, the Subjects at the Crocodile, 8 p.m., $10 It's not unfair to say White Rabbits' 2007 debut, Fort Nightly, sounded a bit like their pals and fellow New York transplan ... More >>

Roadmap to Nirvana

A veteran Seattle music scribe smartly resists sensationalism in a new book about the iconic local band.

Heavy Rock

Apotheosis​Imagine making a casual comment then those words literally end up etched in stone. That's what happened to Kurt Cobain. There's a monument near the legendary bridge that crosses the Wishkah River in East Aberdeen with the words, "Drugs are bad for you. They will f--- you up" engra ... More >>

K--- Cobain

​Drugs will fuck you up and so will politics, as you can see at a nearly invisible tiny-ass park on a dead end street in desolate north Aberdeen. Around the bend from Felony Flats, the splash of greenery known as KC Riverfront Park last week was a homage to hometown musician Kurt Cobain and th ... More >>

You Can Sandblast All You Want, But Drugs Will Still Fuck You Up

​There's something fitting about the way this Kurt Cobain memorial situation is shaking out in Aberdeen. Since the city brought in a sandblaster to censor the word "fuck", fans have taken it upon themselves to fill in the blanks. Did the city really think that a sandblaster would keep the prof ... More >>

Kurt Cobain on Guitar Hero 5

​Should people feel honored or outraged that it was recently confirmed a Kurt Cobain character will be added to Guitar Hero 5? One one hand, you might wonder why he wasn't considered a guitar hero by the makers of this video game a long time ago and be excited that he was finally added to the ... More >>

Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl on Guitar Hero 5: Kurt Deserves Better

Kurt Cobain's Guitar Hero likeness​As you all surely know already, Guitar Hero 5 contains a likeness of Kurt Cobain who "plays" two Nirvana songs. But that's not all you can do with Kurt's character in the game, and that's what Grohl and Novoselic have a problem with. Here's what they had to s ... More >>

Kanye Busts a Rhetorical Noggin

Novoselic In Singapore 1992. Photo: Kurt Cobain​Now Kanye West knows what it's like to embarrass yourself on the VMA's - at least dropping a bass on my head wasn't on purpose so there was no need to make any apologies!!!!

Bleach Signaled Chaos Around the Corner

Nirvana's debut could have been the band's swan song. Instead it was the start of the sound that made Seattle famous.

Q&A: Patti Smith On Robert Mapplethorpe, Jesus Christ, Poetry Vs. Lyrics, and the Death of Kurt Cobain

Robert Mapplethorpe/Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation/Henry Art GalleryPolaroids: Mapplethorpe, a collection of Robert Mapplethorpe's early photos is showing at the Henry Art Gallery through January 30.​Twenty years after the death of friend and former lover, the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, ... More >>

Krist Novoselic: Kurt Cobain, Alexander McQueen, and Making Sense of It All

Krist NovoselicKurt Cobain, on tour in Europe in 1989. Krist Novoselic is a regular contributor to Reverb. His column on music and politics runs every Tuesday.​Dear Duff, No worries on the MTV music awards. There were all kinds of shenanigans going on. And I've been drunk and irresponsible my ... More >>

Looks Like We're One Step Closer to a Kurt Cobain Biopic. But Who's Gonna Take the Lead Role?

​Billboard's reporting that Oren Moverman, the man behind the Oscar-nominated flick The Messenger, in chats with Universal to direct and re-write the screenplay for their Kurt Cobain biopic, which is said to pull heavily from Charles Cross' Cobain biography, Heavier Than Heaven. Fingers crosse ... More >>

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​Billboard's reporting that Oren Moverman, the man behind the Oscar-nominated flick The Messenger, in chats with Universal to direct and re-write the screenplay for their Kurt Cobain biopic, which is said to pull heavily from Charles Cross' Cobain biography, Heavier Than Heaven. Fingers crosse ... More >>

Q&A: Photographer Alice Wheeler On Kurt Cobain, Joan Jett, and Evel Knievel

Alice WheelerKurt Cobain at MTV's Live & Loud, Pier 63, December 13, 1993.​During the last few times she's made it to the Miami Art Fair, photographer Alice Wheeler has noticed a cottage industry of European artists obsessed with Seattle. "Like it's a totally different viewpoint than we have ... More >>

KURT and Andy Warhol Exhibits to Open at SAM

​ Thursday, May 13th, the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) unleashes two new exhibits. One of which is KURT, in which various artists explore "freedom, longing, loss, desire, and alienation - as influenced by the life and work of Kurt Cobain". The other is a series of photographs and film portraits by ... More >>

Writer/Director Oren Moverman Talks About His "Raw and Chaotic" Cobain Biopic

​The Israeli director Oren Moverman has produced Oscar-nominated work for films like the Bob Dylan-based I'm Not There. Good for him, but his current project is the infamous and (to me at least) much-dreaded Kurt Cobain biopic. Moverman recently told the U.K.'s Guardian: It'll be raw and chao ... More >>

Kurt Cobain's Rant Against MTV Up For Auction, Currently Going for $2500

​The online auction website Julien's Live is auctioning off a single sheet of loose leaf notebook paper upon which Kurt Cobain once scrawled: Dear Empty TV the entity of all Corporate GODS We will survive without you easily - - the oldschool is going DOWN FAST my lifes Dedication is Now to ... More >>

Check Out Rolling Stone's Exclusive Photo Preview of EMP's Nirvana Exhibit

Photograph by Lance Mercer, courtesy of EMP​Rolling Stone has a photo slideshow up right now of some of the Nirvana memorabilia coming to EMP in April 2011 for "the world's most extensive Nirvana exhibit." The preview includes photos of: The Stratocaster that Kurt Cobain playing at the 1992 Re ... More >>

STOP THE PRESSES: Billy Ray Cyrus and Kurt Cobain Were Friends

​The Great Mulleted Wonder Billy Ray Cyrus is featured in the new issue of GQ; in the lengthy interview he discusses his concern for his wild child Miley, including Miley pole-dancing, Miley drinking Corona in Spain, Miley posing naked for Vanity Fair, Miley hitting the bong. We also learn som ... More >>

Nirvana Fans Hosting a Reunion/Workparty at Viretta Park on Sunday, What Would Have Been Kurt Cobain's 44th Birthday

​Fans are descending on Viretta Park for a work party on Sunday to clean up the park that is a favorite destination for mourners of the late Kurt Cobain and appreciators of Nirvana. Cleanup at the park (151 Lake Washington Blvd. E) -- close to Cobain's former Denny-Blaine home -- is set run fr ... More >>

On the Next Anniversary of Kurt Cobain's Death, Fans Will Be Able to Record Their Memories at EMP's Nirvana "Confessional." Uh, Oh

Krist NovoselicNirvana bassist -- and former Reverb columnist -- Krist Novoselic took this picture of Kurt Cobain while they were on early tour of Europe with TAD. Novoselic opened his "trunks" to the EMP curators for Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses.​Nirvana fans are remembering Kurt Cobain ... More >>

Ron Sexsmith Credits Nirvana With Making His Career Viable

​Nobody will ever confuse Ron Sexmith's melodic ballads with anything Nirvana ever put out. But both Sexsmith and Kurt Cobain grew up with very little money in depressed paper-mill towns (Sexmith in St. Catherines, Ontario; Cobain in Aberdeen), a fact not lost on Marty Riemer, who called Sexsm ... More >>

Check Out Aberdeen's New Kurt Cobain Memorial, Unveiled Just Yesterday

​Yesterday, on the 17th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death, Aberdeen unveiled a new memorial to their native son. The concrete statue isn't of Cobain, but of an 8.5 foot Fender Jag-Stang--which we think is a much classier way to go. A steel ribbon wraps around the guitar inscribed with the wor ... More >>

Another (Infinitely Tackier) Tribute to Kurt Cobain, Courtesy of Jared Leto

Speaking of erecting monuments to Kurt Cobain (R.I.P. 17 years ago yesterday), y'all have seen this footage of Jared Leto (30 Seconds to Mars, Frozen Embryos) filming himself in Kurt Cobain drag as a sort of pre-emptive audition for a possible biopic, riiiight? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

Historic Typo: See Kurt Cobain's "Smells Like Team Spirit" MTV Moonman

Slideshow: Get an early look inside Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses.​When MTV gave Kurt Cobain his Moonman for Nirvana's "Best Alternative Video" win at the 1992 Video Music Awards, they made a little bit of a mistake. The win was, of course, for the genre-defining "Smells Like Teen Spirit, ... More >>

Aberdeen to Vote on Resolution to Rename Bridge After Kurt Cobain

​Aberdeen is considering paying homage to its most famous son by renaming the Young Street Bridge after Kurt Cobain. The bridge spans the Wishkah River and is the same bridge of Nirvana myth under which Cobain allegedly resided for some time in his youth and wrote about in the Nevermind track ... More >>

Mark Pickerel: "There Is Not a Seattle Sound. There's Good Music and Bad Music"

Singer/songwriter Mark Pickerel was the original drummer in Seattle grunge band Screaming Trees and is among the 70 local bands playing SW's Reverb Festival on Oct. 8. Pickerel plays Conor Byrne at 7:15 p.m.​This post is a part of special Reverb Questionnaire series in which we ask local band ... More >>

Shonen Knife

Singer/songwriter Mark Pickerel was the original drummer in Seattle grunge band Screaming Trees and is among the 70 local bands playing SW's Reverb Festival on Oct. 8. Pickerel plays Conor Byrne at 7:15 p.m.​This post is a part of special Reverb Questionnaire series in which we ask local band ... More >>