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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…

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

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

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

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

How Pat Smear surprised Dave Grohl and joined the Foo Fighters
By Jonathan Horsley Published
These songs were absolutely not In Utero part II as Dave Grohl gamed-out his post-Nirvana musical future

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

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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