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  Kurt Cobain Died 19 Years Ago Today

  April 5, 2013 – Nineteen years ago today (April 5), Kurt Cobain's short life came to a sudden, tragic end. In 1994, the Nirvana frontman, at age 27, took his own life in the greenhouse of his Seattle home. …
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  Kurt Cobain Film Aims to Be This Generation's 'The Wall'

  January 4, 2013 – Crossfire Hurricane, documentarian Brett Morgen's 2012 film about the Rolling Stones, combined audio interviews with relevant archival footage. His still-untitled, Courtney Love-approved documentary about Kurt Cobain, tentatively planned for next year, will be different. …
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  Art Basel 'KURT' Event Loosely Celebrates Cobain, Brings Thurston Moore to Miami

  December 7, 2012 – Peak '90s nostalgia and freely flowing art world money converged last night in Miami for KURT, a night of multimedia art and performance loosely inspired by the late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. The three-act event hit the city's 86-year-old Gusman Center for the Performing Arts as part of the hubbub surrounding Art Basel Miami Beach, a week nominally about art sales but ultimately about surreal confluences. …
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  Thurston Moore Headlines Kurt Cobain Exhibition in Miami

  November 19, 2012 – Courtney Love has shot down rumors of a full-fledged Nirvana musical as well as Crossfire Hurricane director Brett Morgan's Kurt Cobain documentary. …
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  Milk It: Courtney Love Jump-Starts Kurt Cobain Documentary

  November 15, 2012 – Thanks to his forthcoming Crossfire Hurricane film, documentarian Brett Morgen has of late been caught in the storm that is the Rolling Stones' career in 2012. But that hasn't stopped him from thinking about what's next. …
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  Hardy Shaped Box: Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Nick Zinner Is Kurt CoBane for Halloween

  October 29, 2012 – It's two days before All Hallows' Eve, which means the music section of the Internet is soon to be filled with instructive blog posts telling you how to transform yourself into Azealia Banks and PSY for your hipster Halloween party. But stop the presses, folks: One of SPIN's Greatest Guitarists of All Time has dressed up like... another one of SPIN's Greatest Guitarists of All Time (with a brilliant twist!). …
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  Jay-Z: Nirvana 'Stopped' Hip-Hop for a Second

  October 5, 2012 – In his upcoming coffee-table book Pharrell: The Places and Spaces I've Been (Rizzoli), human hyphenate Pharrell Williams includes interviews between him and notables ranging from Buzz Aldrin to Kanye West to Anna Wintour to Jay-Z. For the most part, they're of the tell-me-how-you-do-what-you-do variety, but the back-and-forth between producer-designer-rapper Williams and Jay-Z quickly reaches Nirvana. …
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  What Neil Said to Bruce: The Juiciest Parts of Neil Young's 'Waging Heavy Peace'

  September 26, 2012 – Waging Heavy Peace, Neil Young's just-released and heavily anticipated memoir, is like his career in microcosm. Nearly 500 elliptical pages long, the book is beautiful, psychedelic, rootsy, ragged, terse, boring, riveting, sad, funny, nostalgic and forward-looking. Is it great literature? No. Does it include more than a casual fan probably wants to know about model trains and electric cars? Yup. It's also a must-read for Neil fans. …
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  Dave Grohl Dedicates Song to Cobain and Novoselic at Reading

  August 27, 2012 – Dave Grohl's Foo Fighters closed out England's Reading Festival last night with a 26-song set. "You guys realize we've got a lot of songs to play," Grohl said of the marathon performance. …
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  Lil Wayne Photoshops Himself Onto Nirvana's 'Nevermind' Cover

  July 20, 2012 – Lil Wayne's preoccupation with Nirvana runs deep. He's long cited Nevermind as a big influence on his decision to pursue music. Last fall as the album was celebrating its 20th anniversary, he sat with MTV to chat about its significance (his interviewer, Sway, even sagely mentioned the song "I Smell Teen Spirit"). …
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