As the story goes, no one guessed that Nirvana’s Nevermind would become one of the defining rock records of the ’90s, let alone top the charts at…
Watch Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck in the Theater, Then Hear The Home Recordings
Earlier this year, during a chat with Montage of Heck director Brett Morgen, we broke news that a Kurt Cobain solo album was in the works. As…
Nirvanamania: Rarities Leaked, More Coming, Plus a Montage of Heck Q&A
Back in May, when Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck was screening at IFC Center before its HBO release, director Brett Morgen revealed to Bedford +…
Nevermind the Bollocks, Here’s John Lydon Giving St. Vitus a Taste Of His New Memoir
It’s not often you see Monty Python and John Lydon in the space of a week, but there was Britain’s other living legend at St.…
Montage of Heck Portrays Kurt Cobain ‘As Intimately As Humanly Possible’
At SXSW last month, Brett Morgen got right to the point as he introduced his new documentary about Kurt Cobain, who died 21 years ago this…
A Sitting With the Man Who Shot Kurt Cobain
It’s 1993 all over again: yesterday Kim Deal of the Breeders released a new video, tickets go on sale today at noon for Helmet and Smashing…
Hunter S. Thompson Carved From a Phone Book, David Bowie Made With a Typewriter
For Raoul Duke fans, the highlight of Select Fair, which opens on West 18th Street today at noon, has to be this Hunter S. Thompson…
Listen to Two New Nirvana Covers On Kurt Cobain’s Birthday
In honor of what would have been Kurt Cobain’s 47th birthday (and what is Aberdeen, Washington’s first Kurt Cobain Day) Dead Stars, the band that…
Last Chance to Worship Dead Celebrities at This Freaky Pop-Up Reliquary
The celebrity cemetery on Broome Street has no headstones, graves or flowers. Through Sunday, the Whitebox Art Center will display 51 portraits from British painter…
Watch the Melvins Cover the Butthole Surfers With Sir Gibby Haynes Himself
The Melvins played House of Vans in Greenpoint last night and we still haven’t recovered our hearing. Among the reasons: Dale Crover, looking half his…