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The Seattle Police Department (SPD) released 35 new photos from the scene of Kurt Cobain’s suicide on Thursday. The photos, which are nearly 20 years old, were only recently developed, as the original 35mm film had been stored in a police vault this entire time. The photos were taken on the scene in 1994 after […]

Though seminal rock group Nirvana are set to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame April 10 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., one surviving member will be noticeably absent from the ceremony: former drummer Chad Channing. Not the group's first drummer (that distinction goes to Aaron Burckhard, and drummers Dale Crover and Dave Foster also joined for brief stints), […]

I know what you’re thinking: “AP is a music magazine. Why are you writing about fashion?” Contrary to what a some people may believe, music and fashion have been joined at the hip for quite some time—especially in the punk scene. You might say, “Caring about what you wear isn’t punk,” but it may be […]

A Nirvana TV teaser has surfaced. According to the press release, the video is an obscure and frankly slightly disturbing promotional TV teaser for the band's third and final album In Utero. The album was released in 1993 via DGC Records. In honor of In Utero's 20th anniversary, the album is set to be reissued […]

Frances Bean Cobain has created a Twitter account that she is using to dispute police reports about a recent break-in at her home. In the following statement from Cobain's Twitter, she states that a man identified by the L.A.P.D. as “22-year-old transient Marc James Franco,” who plead “not guilty” to burglary charges on October 16, […]

Blood Red Shoes In Time To Voices This review originally ran in AP 289. The third album from British duo Blood Red Shoes may have been issued in their homeland this past March, but the bulk of it feels like it was first heard in 1992, when the alternative/indie-rock movements were percolating with possibility. Guitarist […]

Soul Control Bore Core EP Like a horse carcass hurled off a skyscraper, Soul Control’s bloody, guts-smeared post-hardcore works best when it’s blurring by at terminal velocity. That’s not to say the Rhode Island crew aren’t good at any speed; on past releases like 2009’s (vaguely Refused-esque) Cycles and last year’s (far more Refused-esque) Get […]

In a new interview with Fuse for his new book Letters To Kurt, former Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson revealed that late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain was demoing solo material around the time of his death:  “'[Kurt] was headed in a direction that was really cool. It would have been his White Album,' Erlandson says, referring to […]

Some newly revealed rare photos capture Nirvana frontman mere months before his death. Via the Huffington Post: “Jesse Frohman was just a recent graduate returning to New York City after earning a degree in economics. Though he had little professional work to his name, he caught the eye of a certain Irving Penn. Penn hired […]

Everyone has his or her Nirvana story. Whether you were 9 years old and never the same after the video for “Smells Like Teen Spirit” demolished your preconceptions of music; whether a friend included a song on a mix CD for you long after frontman Kurt Cobain's death in 1994; or whether you don't even […]