Kurt Cobain

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Today's Rap Recommendation: Quality Picks From Avatar Young Blaze (Natch) and Kung Foo Grip

​Avatar Young Blaze The Humble Villain The Humble Villain is a fresh load of songs from Seattle's foremost Russian-American rap spitter. Av's slowed down a bit from his days of releasing mixtapes (or street albums) quarterly, and it sounds like it's given him time to let his life catch up wit ... More >>

Tenured Misfit: Robert Jones Has Served at the Showbox Since You Were Into 'N Sync

**In keeping with Seattle Weekly's official Drinking Issue, out tomorrow, Wednesday, February 8, this week's Through @ 2 is with a rocking bartender instead of a rocking musician.​​The situation I'm spending a Sunday evening at West Seattle's Benbow Room with Robert Jones, a bartender at ... More >>

"Kurt Cobain's Cardigan" and 9 Other Songs by Musicians About Musicians

The cardigan in question.​All the talk about Kurt Cobain tributes this week got us thinking about songs that pay homage to the Nirvana great. There are quite a few out there. But musicians writing songs about other musicians have a long history-- "Sweet Home Alabama" is basically a dis track a ... More >>

Grand Hallway's Tomo Nakayama on the Seattle Sound: "We're Overdue for a Sea Change"

Tomo Nakayama's band, Grand Hallway, is among the 70 local bands playing SW's Reverb Festival on Oct. 8. Grand Hallway also plays the Columbia City Theatre on Saturday, along with the Maldives, in a benefit show for their friend Mark Giese.​This post is a part of special Reverb Questionnaire ... More >>

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Tomo Nakayama's band, Grand Hallway, is among the 70 local bands playing SW's Reverb Festival on Oct. 8. Grand Hallway also plays the Columbia City Theatre on Saturday, along with the Maldives, in a benefit show for their friend Mark Giese.​This post is a part of special Reverb Questionnaire ... More >>

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Hide Behind Their Hair, Adorably Mumble About Stuff Friday Night at the Crocodile

Look, I'm a dyed-in-the-wool, overly effusive Pains of Being Pure at Heart fanboy, but even I'll be the first to admit that the Brooklyn-based indie popsters are not the most stunningly charismatic live band. Part of that's down to the whole twee thing, perhaps: you don't sing blushing songs about ... More >>

Dear Duff: Do You Think the Technology Age Will Hurt Future Generations of Rockers?

Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. This week, he's answering a few reader questions. Notes and queries can be sent to askduff@seattleweekly.com.​ Hey Duff: Do you think that the Technology Age will hurt future generations of rock musicians? I read so many stories of guys lik ... More >>

Dave Grohl Dedicates His Godlike Genius Award to Kurt Cobain at Last Night's Shockwaves NME Awards

Dan DennisonDave Grohl at last night's Shockwaves NME Awards in London.​At last night's Shockwaves NME Awards in London, Dave Grohl was crowned the Godlike Genius, the first non-Brit to win the honor. While accepting the award at London's O2 Academy Brixton, Grohl was given a standing ovation ... More >>

Kathleen Hanna Remembers Her "Angry Young Feminist" Friend, Kurt Cobain

Bikini Kill/Le Tigre's Kathleen Hanna appeared (with Beastie Boy husband Adam Horovitz) at Joe's Pub in NYC last week as part of the "Our Hit Parade" concert series. Our Hit Parade is a monthly series that has "superstars perform the top 10 pop songs," and while Bikini Kill never had a top 10 pop ... More >>

Shonen Knife

Bikini Kill/Le Tigre's Kathleen Hanna appeared (with Beastie Boy husband Adam Horovitz) at Joe's Pub in NYC last week as part of the "Our Hit Parade" concert series. Our Hit Parade is a monthly series that has "superstars perform the top 10 pop songs," and while Bikini Kill never had a top 10 pop ... More >>

About a Grandson

For many insatiable Nirvana fans, Kurt Cobain's grandfather is as close as they can get to their hero.

Listen to the New Vaselines Song "Sex With an X" Pre-Order the New Record

Wattie Cheung​ In some of fall's more exciting news, Kurt Cobain's favorite band, The Vaselines, will release their first album in a decade on September 14. Sex With an X (on Sub Pop) is actually the Scottish duo's -- Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee -- second only proper studio album, the firs ... More >>

Last Days

Wattie Cheung​ In some of fall's more exciting news, Kurt Cobain's favorite band, The Vaselines, will release their first album in a decade on September 14. Sex With an X (on Sub Pop) is actually the Scottish duo's -- Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee -- second only proper studio album, the firs ... More >>

Party in the Park

Wattie Cheung​ In some of fall's more exciting news, Kurt Cobain's favorite band, The Vaselines, will release their first album in a decade on September 14. Sex With an X (on Sub Pop) is actually the Scottish duo's -- Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee -- second only proper studio album, the firs ... More >>

The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events

Wattie Cheung​ In some of fall's more exciting news, Kurt Cobain's favorite band, The Vaselines, will release their first album in a decade on September 14. Sex With an X (on Sub Pop) is actually the Scottish duo's -- Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee -- second only proper studio album, the firs ... More >>

Q&A: Alice Wheeler on Kurt, the '90s, and Evel Knievel

The photographer reminisces on the eve of SAM's new exhibit.

Rocket Queen: Loud Love

Soundgarden’s “secret” reunion show was a triumphant affair.

Courtney Love Can Say Smart Things and Make Good Decisions, Even About the Kurt Cobain Biopic

Courtney Love says this actor will not portray her late husband in a biopic. What. A. Relief.​Courtney Love says and does many stupid things. There are far, far, too many examples across the Internet to back up this statement. Cataloging the emancipation of Frances Bean via Twitter and Faceboo ... More >>

Music Can't Change the World If It's Not Ready For Change

Kurt CobainKrist Novoselic's column on music and politics runs every Tuesday on Reverb. Check back on Friday when he writes about what he's been listening to.​I grew up listening to a lot of rock music and heavy bands of the 1960s and '70s. Then in 1983, I got bored and needed something new. T ... More >>

The Fussy Eye: Cooper Union

Mural-gazing at the courthouse.

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 >>

Q&A: Patti Smith on Christ, Cobain, and Robert Mapplethorpe

The punk legend comes to town with a new memoir, Just Kids.

Trouble Loves Courtney: Kurt Cobain's Mother Appointed Guardian of Daughter Frances Bean

scrapetv.comCourtney Love and Frances Bean Cobain in...happier days?​Once again, Courtney ("I did not fuck you") Love has at least temporarily lost legal control of her teen daughter to the Olympia mother of her late husband Kurt Cobain. A Los Angeles judge on Friday appointed Frances Bean's g ... More >>

Nirvana: Back in Bleach

The first Nirvana album was probably the last one you heard, but it marks a critical chapter in Seattle music history.

You've Never Heard These Nirvana Stories Before

Photo by Krist NovoselicChad Channing, left, and Kurt Cobain in 1989.​At least not like this. In tomorrow's print and online editions we've got a package of stories about Nirvana's 1989 debut album, Bleach, which Sub Pop is re-issuing on Nov. 3 as something of a 20th anniversary deluxe edition ... More >>

Slush Pile! Warren Moon Edition

​You better be on time if you want to see a movie with Warren Moon. The former Husky star quarterback, who helped beat Michigan in the 1978 Rose Bowl, is a stickler about showtimes. It's one of the few concrete, character-illuminating nuggets in his new autobiography, Never Give Up on Your Dre ... More >>

Alice Wheeler

​You better be on time if you want to see a movie with Warren Moon. The former Husky star quarterback, who helped beat Michigan in the 1978 Rose Bowl, is a stickler about showtimes. It's one of the few concrete, character-illuminating nuggets in his new autobiography, Never Give Up on Your Dre ... More >>

Behind My Music: Vol. II

Even as grunge wannabes started applying for jobs at Amazon and buying regular shoes, the music scene in Seattle survived.

My Seattle Rock Journey - Part Two

Even as grunge wannabes started applying for jobs at Amazon and buying regular shoes, the music scene in Seattle survived.

Krist Novoselic: Presidential Pick-A-Problem Primary

Even as grunge wannabes started applying for jobs at Amazon and buying regular shoes, the music scene in Seattle survived.

BABYSHAMBLES, Fern Knight, Nirvana, Pink Nasty

Even as grunge wannabes started applying for jobs at Amazon and buying regular shoes, the music scene in Seattle survived.

One More Time

Speaker Speaker shake off their difficult past in favor of pure guitar pop.

Ain't No Telling

Seattle Weekly plays Jukebox Jury with Kurt Cobain and Jimi Hendrix biographer Charles R. Cross.

Best Rock Biographer

Arts & Entertainment

The Devil's Rejects

Also: 5 x 2, Hustle & Flow, The Island, Last Days, Murderball, My Mother's Smile, and Saraband.

One Chord Wonders

Shouting through the walls with Rhino's new punk box.

Bleeding Hearts

Vendetta Red rock for the kids, not the scene.

Latest on Axl Rose, Nikki Sixx, Wilco, and more.

Vendetta Red rock for the kids, not the scene.

The power of pop

The Stars think their music can change your life.

Best band name ever

Rival Schools handcuff the singer-songwriter to hardcore.

The myth of St. Kurt

Charles Cross' new book explores the dark side of Kurt Cobain.

Book events

Charles Cross' new book explores the dark side of Kurt Cobain.

CD Reviews

Charles Cross' new book explores the dark side of Kurt Cobain.

SMAT

Seattle Music Aptitude Test

The Metro Gnome

Seattle Music Aptitude Test

Rock 'n' roles

The music industry's hate-fueled gender gap and its chart-topping front men.

Team of the century

The music industry's hate-fueled gender gap and its chart-topping front men.

Lists of the '90s

Instant Nostalgia issue

Alter boy

Jim Carroll rising.