#Kurt Cobain

ONLY NOISEIn the Wake of Kurt's Suicide, Courtney Love Changed My Life

Courtney spent her career living in the shadow of Kurt Cobain, despite her own brilliant talent. ONLY NOISE explores music fandom with poignant personal essays that examine the ways we’re shaped by our chosen soundtrack. This week, legendary ROCKRGRL editor Carla Black remembers how her sympathy...

Carla Black

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NEWS ROUNDUPInternational Women's Day, Leaving Neverland, and MORE

Maggie Rogers, Mavis Staples, Phoebe Bridgers and Brandi Carlile meet at Newport Music Fest. Photo by Danny Clinch. The artists shared this photo along with messages of empowerment for International Women's Day via Twitter. It's International Women's Day! Though some form of International Women's...

Lindsey Rhoades

ONLY NOISENevermind Nirvana

Dear Carl, Why do I hate Nirvana? -The Guilty Washingtonian.

Madison Bloom

APPROVAL MATRIX2/16/14 thru 2/22/14

Here's our take on the best and worst in music this week. HIGHBROW ^^^^^^^^ [box type="shadow"] Mark your calendars: on 2/28, Smashing Pumpkins' frontman William Corgan (as he's billed himself for this event) is improvising an 8 to 9 hour ambient musical interpretation of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha...

Megan Huffman

MOVIE REVIEWHit So Hard (The Life and Near-Death Story of Patty Schemel)

I've been on a bit of a grunge binge lately. It could be that the onset of certain anniversaries, observed by nearly everyone who cared about music in the mid-nineties, turns collective thought to the anti-heroes of the genre who destroyed themselves in the process of creating it. But for all the...

Lindsey Rhoades

Taking a Look at Jesse Frohman's Photos of Kurt Cobain

Because he was a photographer and not a psychic, Jesse Frohman had no way of knowing that his now-iconic pictures of grunge idol Kurt Cobain would be some of the last ever shot. But judging by the Nirvana frontman's erratic behavior both leading up to and during the session, originally commissioned...

Lindsey Rhoades

Hole's Eric Erlandson Talks "Letters To Kurt"

There is one question that every music connoisseur dreads, and though it is often innocently asked, can be astoundingly difficult to answer. It might happen at a party or an intimate dinner gathering, on a first date, or on the fiftieth. But inevitably, as a means of qualifying your musical tastes,...

Lindsey Rhoades