Ever wondered what music the people who post on the DiS boards are into? Us too. We've always thought about doing some sort of poll-of-polls, and then - as is often the way with DiS - a member of the community took it upon themselves to start one. The results of which were revealed on the boards too but right here, right now, we can reveal far more than the top 20.»
A good one to cover, this.»
Never did we think there'd be a day when SEVERAL of our news stories were NICKED from The Sun, but today is just that day. Following the news that Blur are to release a new single, the news comes to us that Twilight Star Robert Pattinson is due to play Kurt Cobain in a film of the singer's life. »
Hmmmmm. Surprise, surprise?»
Former Nirvana bassist and general Washingtonian luminary Krist Novoselic has dubbed former bandmate and rock superstar Dave Grohl 'the greatest rock musician in the world today', in his column for Seattle Weekly.»
As previously reported, Nirvana's now near-legendary (if not approaching folkloric) performance at 1992's Reading Festival is to get a DVD release. We have the track 'School', which appears somewhere in the front half of things, for your eyes only, embedded below.»
Muse utterly take the piss, on Italian TV.»
To celebrate the launch of Guitar Hero 5, we're giving away a bundle per day to a very fortunate winner. A bundle, of course, includes the game and the hardware (controllers) that you'll need to play the game.»
The Guitar Hero/Kurt Cobain feud rolls on at a dramatic pace.»
Nirvana's 'legendary' performance at Reading Festival in 1992 is to get a DVD and CD release in the UK on November 2 this year under the revolutionary name Nirvana Live At Reading.»
Nirvana really need no introduction. Nor does their rock 'n' raw debut, Bleach. Well, it's 20 years old this year and to celebrate this Sub Pop have announced that it's getting the full reissue treatment.»
Nirvana’s former manager has pinpointed Courtney Love’s arrival in Kurt Cobain’s life as the moment the band changed forever»
Much admired photographer Steve Gullick is currently exhibiting his work at Rough Trade East, but on a more serious note The Quietus are finding out whether it's David Yow or Eugene Robinson who has the more impressive penis»
In the first of two special reports coming today from behind lines at the Daily Star, it’s being reported that the predatory glint in Courtney Love’s left eye has fallen and fixed on admirable cynic Charlie Brooker»
Kurt Cobain’s estate has been ransacked by fraudsters to the tune of £36m, widow Courtney Love has told the Sun»
The world's longest running conflict plumbed new depths today, as Courtney Love took a damaging potshot at nemesis Dave Grohl.»
It’s hardly a new concept – Band X allowing ‘Song Y’ to be used to soundtrack a television advertisement – but now, more than ever, it seems acts from the margins of popular taste are being exploited – or should that be given a boost? – by marketing men with their ears tuned to the sounds of the underground...»
Nevermind - Nirvana's 1991 album described as "sheeny" by resident DiS listings editor Alex Denney, just then, when I asked him to describe it in a single word - is to get a dance make-over by a Seattle-based theatre group...»
Renowned Jedi Ewan McGregor – he used to get his wang out all the bloody time, putting me right off my popcorn – is apparently a frontrunner to play dead grunge man Kurt Cobain in the previously reported (here) film about the dead grunge man’s short life...»
A new film based on Nirvana's Kurt Cobain is in the early stages of production, according to Courtney Love...»
Former Nirvana bass player Krist Novoselic (pictured, centre) - he was in Sweet 75 post-Nirvana, but let's not kid ourselves that they're worth remembering - is to tour with reformed San Francisco-based punks Flipper in December...»
Nirvana fans, like, everywhere have reacted angrily to a new book by acclaimed photographer David LaChappelle, and more specifically to a shot of Courtney Love...»
Some crazy parents (they've got to be parents... and crazy... right?) have made lullabye albums of established rock artists' material available... so that you can send your child off to the Land of Nod with tunes by Tool and Metallica bouncing about their ickle brains...»
Nirvana's 1994 video, Live! Tonight! Sold Out!, released just after the death of the band's singer Kurt Cobain, is to finally be made available on DVD...»
Q magazine - the number-one mag for rockin' dads everywhere - has published another top-100 poll. This time, they've focused their decaying ears on the best 100 songs of all time, as voted for (of course) by their readers...»
Courtney Love is to follow in the rather dead footsteps of her late husband Kurt Cobain by publishing a collection of journal entries...»
Really-rather-dead Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain, who choked on a bullet back in 1994, has been voted the greatest rock and roll hero of all time by readers of NME...»
Lyrics are great, eh? They provide the average listener with something to shout along to while stuck in a mile-long tailback on the M4, and enable record labels to make little CD booklets that read like bad senior-school poetry. Viewers of popular music channel VH1 have been voting for their favourite lyric lately, and the results are in...»
Courtney Love has sold 25 per cent of her share in Nirvana's catalogue, assuring fans that the move will take the band where they'd "never been before"...»
The word on the street - the street in this instance being the internet - is that sometime singer and fulltime nutbar Courtney Love is considering selling a quarter share in the Nirvana franchise...»
Forthcoming grunge compilation Sleepless In Seattle: The Birth Of Grunge has sidestepped two of the genre's most prominent exponents, Pearl Jam and Nirvana...»
Not so hot on the heels of 2004's With The Lights Out four-disc set comes another Nirvana compilation, this time (well, again actually) concentrating on rare material and demos...»
Courtney Love has shot her mouth off in the latest issue of US magazine Spin, aiming her anger at former Nirvana drummer and current Foo Fighter Dave Grohl...»
Radiohead's 'OK Computer' has been voted the greatest album of all time in a poll by Channel 4 viewers.»
Nevermind, Nirvana's massive-selling and highly influential second album, is to admitted to the US Library of Congress storage vault.»
Aberdeen - that's in Washingston State, by the way - is to honour late resident Kurt Cobain by erecting a sign bearing the words Come As You Are.»
Channel 4's top 100 pop videos contains few surprises...»
The much-hyped and long-delayed Nirvana box set will be released in the UK on November 23rd.»
Exceptionally rare tracks from Kurt & Co's first ever show online...»
15 years in the life of a label and it comes down to this... Don't be fooled. 'Terminal Sales' is a two-cd compilation commemorating the decade and a half since 1988, of throbbing, funky, grainy, grungey, gravy, rock greatness which Sub Pop has produced. You only need to look at »
Singer, actress and publicity whore Courtney Love has been arrested at Heathrow for alleged abusive behaviour on board a plane. The widow of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was flying in from the US before she was arrested. Courtney Love had been travelling on Virgin Atlantic flight VS8 from Los Ange»
Now that Kurt Cobain's journals have been released this week, more than eight years after the Nirvana singer's death, it's your chance to see into his mind and behind his lyrics. As previously announced, Cobain's 'Journals'<»
Courrtney Love has sold on the rights for the diaries that Kurt Cobain kept for some $2.3 million dollars to Riverhead Books, a division of Penguin Putnam. That is, when she’s not being deeply embroiled in a court battle with Dave Grohl regarding the 100 or so hours worth of unreleased rehearsals and »
Following on from our earlier article, Courtney Love has managed to avoid a psychiatric test after a judge blocked the move. Judge Robert Alsdorf has said that the test would "serve no purpose other than to contribute a circus-like a»
Krist Novoselic & Dave Grohl take the battle to Courtney over the release of an anniversary Nirvana boxed set, and the whole future of the band's back catalogue Over the last few days, Legal papers filed at Seattle's Superior Court Of Washington have launched an action seeking to overturn an earlier court »
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