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Kurt Cobain of Nirvana during MTV Live and Loud: Nirvana Performs Live - December 1993 at Pier 28 in Seattle, Washington, United States.
Learn the all-purpose passing chord – the get-out-of-jail-free hack used by Kurt Cobain and Billie Joe Armstrong

By Jimmy Brown Published

You’ve heard it in Smells Like Teen Spirit and countless other grunge and punk classics. You may even already be doing it…

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Courtney Love & Hole during The 1998 Billboard Music Awards at MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Courtney Love refused to turn Celebrity Skin into “a grieving widow’s memoir” – but she paid tribute with the gear she played

By Janelle Borg Published

With Celebrity Skin, Love shifted Hole's musical direction and created their final opus, in the midst of great tragedy

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Krist Novoselic and Kurt Cobain performing live onstage
The recording of Nirvana's Bleach – and the band's “ultimate grunge song”

By Janelle Borg Published

Recorded in four sessions in December 1988 for just $606.17, Bleach would signal the primal quality and rawness that came to define the grunge movement

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Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters performs in concert at Madison Square Garden on July 16, 2018 in New York City
Dave Grohl on life in the aftermath of Kurt Cobain's death – and how his switch to guitar and songwriting marked a new chapter

By Janelle Borg Published

Fresh from the release of Foo Fighters' 12th album, Grohl has looked back on the origins of the multi-decade project that stemmed from intense grief

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Adrian Smith of Iron Maiden performs at London Stadium on June 28, 2025 in London, England
Adrian Smith on how Nirvana and grunge negatively impacted Iron Maiden's career trajectory in the ’90s

By Janelle Borg Published

The heavy metal guitarist looks back on how the pop culture and subculture paradigm shift impacted Maiden

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Alice Cooper, Anna Cara, and Kurt Cobain comped image
Watch Alice Cooper deliver a shock rock version of Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit

By Phil Weller Published

The shock rock icon gave a grunge anthem a creepy twist at the 28th edition of Coopstock over the weekend

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Nirvana's Bleach backline
The backline used on Nirvana’s Bleach tour is to be auctioned off today

By Phil Weller Published

The slew of Fender, Marshall, and Ampeg gear powered the tour for the band’s warts n’ all debut album at the turn of the ‘90s

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After years of searching, YouTuber finally uncovers the identity of Kurt Cobain’s mystery In Utero amp

By Phil Weller Published

Guitarist and YouTuber Aaron Rash has been documenting his tonal quest for four years – now he’s discovered the amp that’s been driving him crazy

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Melissa Auf der Maur playing bass on stage
Melissa Auf der Maur on joining Hole amidst tragedy and her “Master’s in Music” with the Smashing Pumpkins

By Janelle Borg Published

In her love letter to the ’90s – the last analog decade – the Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist shares how she fell in love with the low-end and became an integral part of the noise-making generation

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David Gilmour's Black Strat
The 16 most expensive guitars of all time

By Jenna Scaramanga Last updated

Fenders owned by Eric Clapton and Bob Dylan, Martins belonging to Kurt Cobain and David Gilmour, and one independently made axe headline the list of most profitable guitars sold at auction

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