Ongoing History Daily: Nirvana squalor
Before Nirvana unexpectedly hit it big with Nevermind in the fall of 1991, everyone in the band was living way below the poverty line. If they weren’t living out of a broken down
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Ongoing History Daily: Nirvana’s cello player
There was a short period of time in the grunge era when a series of bands discovered that using a cello could add a real sense of gravitas to music. Some of the
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 994: The Last Moments of…Part 1
It’s always a shock when a rock star dies. Our first reaction is “What happened? How did this person die?” That’s completely natural. Whenever we’re met with something incomprehensible, we demand an explanation.
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Ongoing History Daily: Another Nirvana collectible
Even though the band has been gone for almost 30 years, the fascination with all things Nirvana continue, especially anything to do with Kurt Cobain. Recently, a old crappy electric guitar was put
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Ongoing History Daily: Keeping Nirvana focused
When it came time to record the follow-up to Nevermind, Nirvana—well, it was Kurt, really—decided that the band needed to get back to its punk rock roots by making a record that was
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Ongoing History Daily: The original lyrics of “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
It’s rare for a song to emerge fully complete. Most of the time, it undergoes innumerable revisions as the composer tries to get it just right. Such was the case when Kurt Cobain
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Ongoing History Daily: Nirvana set fire to their van—on purpose
Being on tour as Nirvana must have been a pretty intense thing. There were all those nights where Kurt (and sometimes the rest of the band) smashed all their gear onstage. The label
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AI has given us the Kurt and Courtney mash-up we’ve always wanted
Ever since Kurt Cobain got together with Courtney Love, there have been rumours/stories/allegations/accusations that he helped her write songs for Hole. “How did she make such a big leap in songwriting from the
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Ongoing History Daily: Two Nirvana quirks
Two interesting things about Nirvana that you perhaps did not know. First of all, Kurt Cobain met Krist Novoselic through a Christian youth group(!!!) that met every Wednesday night in their hometown of
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Ongoing History Daily: Come as you are
Before Nirvana, no one outside of the logging industry knew (or even cared about) the town of Aberdeen, Washington. It’s this lonely little place at the end of a highway south of Seattle
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Ongoing History Daily: When Duff met Kurt
When Duff McKagan was with Guns N’ Roses, he had a chance meeting with a guy named Kurt Cobain. On April 2, 1994, Duff was flying home to Seattle on Delta flight 788.
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