Tag Archives: kurt cobain

2015 wasn't a year for landmark releases, but there were some rather impressive outings from veterans and newbies alike.

Nirvana's studio output was so limited that a best-of collection seems almost beside the point – if you were a fan, you have the albums, or at least the last two, and if you're a completist you'd want one of the box sets. Still, 'Nirvana' has sold millions worldwide, and now is a good time to get it in any number of new formats, of which Universal has given us a dizzying variety.

Brett Morgen succeeds where others before him have failed in giving the world a Kurt Cobain life story that is as profoundly intimate, non-judgmental and powerful as you could ever ask for.

When news reports of Kurt Cobain's suicide came out, the world was in shock and then settled back to thinking it was another of example of a rocker living fast, dying young and leaving a good looking corpse. Only in Cobain's case it wasn't so good looking; a shotgun blast to the head killed him. Or was it? After the case was closed by the Seattle Police Department another investigator who had information pieced together details and information that he had that the police didn't want to see. His conclusions are explosive and may result in re-investigating Kurt Cobain's death, this time as a homicide.

A fascinating, mostly even-handed new book looks at rock's most exclusive fraternity of tragedy, and its six most famous members.

Noted photographer collaborates with PJ Harvey for an extraordinary "Video LP."

Now twenty years old, Nirvana's monster hit gets tricked out in an expanded edition.

On the cusp of superstardom, Nirvana rocks a relatively small venue on Halloween, 1991.

Still one hell of a beautiful sounding noise.

Sex and drugs and rock and roll and...death. Stop Making Sense.