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Nirvana have prevailed (again) in the legal battle over the cover of Nevermind, with a judge dismissing a lawsuit brought by Spencer Elden, who claimed the naked photo of him as a baby violated child pornography laws. In a ruling issued earlier this week, Judge Fernando M. Olguin said that …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Nirvana has been credited with a lot: revolutionizing grunge-era music, teaching a generation the value of rebellion, and, of course, redefining style. That last part is on full …

It’s a perfectly dreary Saturday in Seattle as the morning rain has subsided and cooled off an unseasonably warm September. Earlier in the day, the doors of the Museum of Pop Culture, or MoPop as it’s colloquially called, opens its doors for what they know will be its busiest day …

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 …

Dave Grohl has always quietly loved dance music, even lacing Nirvana‘s Nevermind with parts borrowed from disco drummers. He showcased that funkier side at a school benefit Saturday night at the Los Angeles club Avalon Hollywood, busting out a rocked-up cover of LCD Soundsystem’s “Daft Punk is Playing At My …

“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 …

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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 …