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There's no shortage of adjectives that could be used to describe Michael Azerrad's deep dive into his friendship with Kurt Cobain for the New Yorker : insightful, tender,...

Cyclist Pete Stokes honored 30 years of Nirvana's 'Nevermind' by recreating the album cover using his GPS tracker!

Cyclist Pete Stokes honored 30 years of Nirvana's 'Nevermind' by recreating the album cover using his GPS tracker!

Cyclist Pete Stokes honored 30 years of Nirvana's 'Nevermind' by recreating the album cover using his GPS tracker!

Scream almost in tune. it just gave an intensity that was really unique. ♪ i kill you, im not gonna crack ♪ >> nirvana gave the record industry a wake-up call and said, here is your new audience. so start looking for the people with the clothes with the holes in the knees. and you better run to those clubs to buy up the next one. >> i would go to the clubs and see bands like cat butt and bands like screaming trees. it was such a refreshing change from the competitive sort of l.a. hollywood 8...

Cadillac is going electric. if you want to be bold, you have to go off - script. experience the all-electric cadillac lyric. welcome to the week in rock. it was week lit up in a large way by the release of "in utero," the much-anticipated third album by nirvana. ♪ rape me ♪ >> walmart is refusing to sell nirvanas new release which includes a song called "rape me." the chain says it wants to be sensitive to its customers moral standards. >> to get into walmart they had to change the title f...

>> yeah. >> in that he was writing very much from the heart, very directly, and he didnt play according to the rules. >> i was 16 when that happened. and if you turned to music for solace in your life, to then see your hero kill himself, it was devastating. it certainly sucked the air out of alternative rock. you know, the best band fell apart after only making a couple records. you know? what do you do after that? ♪ >> oasis, the verve, blur, the britpop thing, it was like the hangover of gru...

Wanting to be popular. ♪ rape me ♪ >> the starmaking machine had sucked nirvana up into its evil guts, and now they had to deal with it. >> we decided to lay low and obviously that was -- you know, someone would say, oh, thats because kurts on heroin the whole time. it was just like -- its been really damaging to us. tell you the truth. its really affected my personal life a lot. >> i was in the front row of the "unplugged" performance, and it was a serious artistic statement. kurt didnt pla...

The biggest misconception about the so-called seattle music scene is? >> everybodys a grunge band. >> all these bands that actually sound pretty different from each other were being lofted up to the mainstream as, this is what grunge is. >> tell me a little bit about the seattle music scene. >> with all the attention, no ones ever asked us that before. >> weve never heard that question. so, tell me about the seattle sound? whats going on up there? >> whats in the water? ♪ son, she said, have i...

Felt this connection to kurt cobain, and i was always, even when i was young, just so worried about him. ♪ my girl, my girl ♪ >> in that era there was always the speculation kurts not doing well, kurt has drug problems. and nirvana "unplugged" was this kind of thing like, the clouds parted. you know? and it seemed like everything was going to be okay. ♪ the whole night through ♪ >> from seattle tonight, word of an untimely death. >> the lead singer of nirvana shot and killed himself at h...