Kurt Cobain

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  • Beyond the Multiplex

    An abortion film that will upset you, no matter which side you're on. Plus: What would Jesus do ... if his kid were gay?
  • The Rundown

    An angelic Kurt Cobain, Bob Dylan's birthday, RIAA shenanigans and more in the week's biggest music news.
  • Beyond the Multiplex

    The best of South by Southwest: An extraordinary look at Kurt Cobain's life and an absorbing film about a forgotten pop legend. Plus: A chat with a Cannes winner.
  • Responses to "Did Gen X Kill the Rock Star?"

    Readers mull the future of rock.
  • Did Gen X kill the rock star?

    Seeing Nirvana's music repurposed to sell video games reminds us of Generation X's failure to produce a rock star of lasting worth.
  • Flagrante T-shirt-o

    A Brooklyn entrepreneur prints shirts proclaiming that the wearer had sex with everyone from the Strokes to Anna Wintour -- and New York is eating them up.
  • "Oh Pleez GAWD I can't handle the success!"

    Excerpts from Kurt Cobain's journals (published in Newsweek) reveal an oddball genius battling severe physical pain -- and imagining a Nirvana reunion tour sponsored by Depends.
  • "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

    Was Nirvana's angry, culture-shifting 1991 anthem really a revolution? Maybe not. But it changed my life.
  • Kurt Cobain and a dream about pop

    In an age of corporate consolidation, Kurt Cobain turned an industry upside down. And in an age of media prying, he died right in front of our eyes.
  • Never mind the hair bands, here's a Flock of Seagulls!

    The author of a new biography of Kurt Cobain looks back at the best and worst of musical decades, the 1980s.
  • Descent of the divas

    Gay men once worshipped some of the most over-the-top female entertainers, but the deification of the flamboyant, the bitchy and the damaged has become an anachronism.
  • Patti Smith

    A punk icon in jeans and leather jacket, she added ecstasy and spiritual exaltation to the poet-songwriter equation.
  • The dearth of cool

    Are white hipsters an endangered species? Is sellout just another word for nothing left to lose?
  • Courtney Love lights up Winnipeg

    In which a wayfaring scribe innocently stumbles into a Hole concert, where a congregation of lager louts gets a quick, harsh lesson in timing.
  • Real-life fembots!

    New GPS-equipped bra enables authorities to locate your breasts; Brit bookies say Gore's gonna get it; Nicole Kidman: Call Pamela Anderson Lee; Lennon more popular than Jesus in new poll. Plus: Be very afraid -- Loni Anderson is back!
  • Mocking the Mayflower

    There was plenty of antagonism in the air at the start of Hole's Boston show Sunday night. But Courtney Love wouldn't have it any other way.
  • It's not the meat, it's the motion

    David Bowman reviews the Meat Puppets' re-releases
  • Music Feature: Listen through this

    Stephanie Zacharek defends Courtney Love's new wardrobe and her new record, 'celebrity skin'
  • Listen through this

    Stephanie Zacharek defends Courtney Love's new wardrobe and her new record, 'celebrity skin'
  • Fastball

    Sharps & Flats is a daily music review in Salon Magazine
  • April 3, 1998: the day punk died

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  • Marching to the beat of a not-so-dumb drummer

    The Foo Fighters' "The Colour and the Shape" proves ex-Nirvana member Dave Grohl is still the most powerful drummer in rock 'n' roll.

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