Category Archives: Nirvana

‘A Nightmare On Elm Street’ Director Samuel Bayer’s Music Video Playlist

This weekend marks the release of “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” a remake of the classic psychological slasher movie of the same name. The original “Nightmare” gave birth to Freddy Krueger, the psychotic killer who murders the children of Elm Street while they sleep. The original film was directed by horror icon Wes Craven (who [...] Continue reading

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Remembering Kurt Cobain in Classic Photos and More

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Sixteen years ago today, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain was found dead of a self-inflicted wound in his Seattle home, silencing one of the most powerful voices in rock history at the age of 27. A decade and a half after his death, Cobain is still one of the greatest rock icons and his music [...] Continue reading

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Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain: An Incredible Rise, A Tragic Fall

Sixteen years ago today, the music world lost one of its most iconic members when Kurt Cobain took his own life at his home in Seattle. (His body was actually found on April 8, but autopsy reports showed that he likely passed on the fifth.) Most of the world heard about his passing via Kurt [...] Continue reading

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Kurt Cobain Fades Away: Wake-Up Video

For people of a certain age, this week in 1994 was harrowing. Though his body wasn’t discovered until April 8, autopsy reports established that today was probably the day that Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain died. It not only represented the end of Nirvana — which, based on several accounts, may have happened anyway even if [...] Continue reading

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Kurt Cobain Biopic Moves Along as Fans Mark Nirvana Icon’s Birthday

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Universal Pictures will finally move forward with their long-in-the-works Kurt Cobain biopic, which is partly based on the book Heavier than Heaven by veteran music journalist Charles R. Cross. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the studio is in negotiations with Oren Moverman — the Oscar-nominated director of The Messenger — to direct and [...] Continue reading

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Wake-Up Video: Nirvana’s ‘Drain You’

Two people in the Nirvana universe share a birthday today. Courtney Love turns 45 today. The controversial wife of Kurt Cobain has had a bit of a checkered history, but it’s hard to deny the fact that she released one of the definitive albums of the grunge era (Hole’s Live Through This) and her first [...] Continue reading

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