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Is this the most expensive smashed guitar ever sold? Kurt Cobain’s stage-smashed Fender Stratocaster sells at auction for $600,000 – 10 times its initial estimate
By Matt Parker published
The instrument, signed by all three members of Nirvana, er, smashed expectations in the recent sale
The 5 Nirvana basslines you need to hear
By Joel McIver published
From Smells Like Teen Spirit to About a Girl, here are Krist Novoselic’s five greatest basslines
A Kurt Cobain stage-smashed Fender Stratocaster is going up for auction
By Jackson Maxwell published
Signed by all three members of Nirvana, the Strat also features a note from Cobain addressed to the Screaming Trees' Mark Lanegan
Nirvana, Nile Rodgers and Heart’s Nancy and Ann Wilson all honored with 2023 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards
By Matt Parker published
The Recording Academy has announced the list of honorees for this year, and it’s studded with iconic guitar talent
A YouTuber has built a pedal to clone Kurt Cobain’s home demo tone
By Matt Parker published
Producer/songwriter Aaron Rash has hand-wired a pedal he calls the Engine
Kurt Cobain’s Boss DS-1 sells for $75,000 – is this the most expensive pedal sold at auction?
By Matt Parker published
The highly personalized distortion pedal recently went for more than Jimi Hendrix’s Band of Gypsys Octavia pedal
Kurt Cobain’s stage-smashed 1973 Fender Mustang sells for nearly $500,000 at auction
By Matt Owen published
The sunburst offset was smashed in 1989, and its remains were swapped for a Gibson SG after Cobain's guitar-destroying performance left him without an instrument to play
Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear Reflect on the Making of Nirvana's 'In Utero'
By Alan di Perna last updated
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