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On July 21, 1994 – just three months after Kurt Cobain‘s suicide – a photo of Courtney Love kissing. Lemonheads frontman Evan Dando in a hotel room bed ran in the New York Post and quickly spread across the globe. “Merry widow Courtney Love was recently photographed sharing a passionate …

In the liner notes for Nirvana’s 1992 compilation, Incesticide, Kurt Cobain wrote about how he was so obsessed with the post-punk group the Raincoats that he once traipsed through London to find “the very-out-of-print first Raincoats LP.” An explosion of artsy violin, unusual rhythms, and ear-turning harmonies, the album was …

For years, people told Adam Duritz not to bother releasing full albums, that “nobody wants to listen to ’em anymore.” So he released Counting Crows‘ most ambitious music ever —an interlocked, glam-rock-infused four-song sequence — as an EP, 2021’s Butter Miracle, Suite One. “But I found that there was a …

More than a decade after the Melvins‘ Kurt Cobain–decorated 1972 Dodge van was listed on eBay, the “Melvan” is headed back to auction. The Kiss illustration that Cobain left on the vehicle, as well as other parts of the van, will be part of Julien’s Auctions’ Music Icons auction, which …

“A lot of artists, when they’re 62 years old, they’re winding things down,” Metallica‘s Kirk Hammett says in the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast. “I feel like I’m still fucking climbing the summit, bro.” Hammett has a new coffee-table book out, The Collection: Kirk Hammett, with …

Before Lollapalooza became just another giant festival, it was a culture-shaking Nineties traveling carnival that helped define the thing we used to call “alternative.”Key moments in the careers of Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails, Ice-T, Green Day, Rage Against the Machine, Courtney Love, and many more played out on its …

Metallica‘s members are all in their 60s, and their music is way more physically demanding than anything their classic-rock forebears have had to tackle onstage — but lead guitarist Kirk Hammett tells our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast that he doesn’t see retirement on the horizon. “As long as we …

After digging up an old ticket stub for a 1991 Nirvana concert, skateboarding legend Tony Hawk shared a short message about the gig and said he wished Kurt Cobain was still alive to meet their shared grandchild. The show Hawk attended took place Oct. 20, 1991 at the now-defunct Houston …

Today would have been Kurt Cobain‘s birthday. The Nirvana singer, guitarist and songwriter died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in April of 1994 at the age of 27. During his lifetime, Cobain spearheaded an international phenomenon, becoming not only the most visible representative of Seattle’s grunge scene but also an …

J UST AFTER DAWN on the morning of May 15, 2019, more than a dozen cops arrived at a home in the placid suburb of Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. Armed with a search warrant, they ordered a member of the household to sit down and denied her access to her …