Originally, I was going to ramble on about how much I enjoy the documentary Kurt Cobain About A Son. But after thinking about it a little bit, I thought it would be a bit more interesting if I compiled a list of some of my other favorite rock documentaries. After all, people love lists. So, here are my ten favorite rock documentaries that I've seen(and one that I haven't). And please feel f...
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A Kurt Cobain and Nirvana tribute concert by Nevermind and High Class Wreckage will take place at Motor in Seattle on Friday, April 10. Proceeds go to the Kurt Cobain Memorial Committee, whose mission is to build a youth center and memorial park in Cobain's hometown of Aberdeen. By Marian Liu Seattle Times staff reporter It's been 15 years since Kurt Cobain died. Cobain was found dead in h...
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Some things you just don't quite know how to respond to... and this is one of them. Perhaps you can play with your Cobain toy while wearing a pair of spiffy *"Kurt Cobain Converse shoes":http://mog.com/Mackenzie_P/blog_post/151686* too.I love how "the Wired Listening Post":http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/04/kurt-cobain-unp.html responded to this. "The next model should come with a wind-up mo...
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Is Courtney Love in trouble? Does she owe money to the mob? Gambling problem? Drugs? Or is she finally ready to part with the last of Kurdt's belongings? Ready to move on perhaps. I ask these questions because some anonymous Craigslister has posted some interesting Cobain memorabilia for sale on the legendary online classifieds website. The Olympia, Washington Craigslist has "Original/Si...
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The ash remains of legendary Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain have gone missing from the Los Angeles area home of his rehab-prone widow Courtney Love.Cobain's ashes were reportedly kept in a pink teddy-bear-shaped bag along with a lock of his hair and were swiped along with thousands of dollars worth of jewelery and clothing. (What? No golden shrine. One of the greatest rockers of all time was kept...
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Kid Pretentious posted a thorough roundup yesterday (see here if you missed it) but the hits just keep coming. Here's a handful of new posts with top tunes to keep you up all night:Ministry - Everyday Is HalloweenTwitter Updates For Halloween Mixtapes - including Weezy's No Ceilings and ting and ting....Cover songs mixtape - Halloween 2009 - something about David Yow of Jesus Lizard with Shell...
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At long last, it's finally here. Today, November 3rd, marks the release of Nirvana's Live At Reading concert CD/DVD. Ranked #1 in Kerrang Magazine’s “100 Gigs That Shook The World” and voted as “Nirvana’s #1 Greatest Moment” by fans in an NME poll, Nirvana’s historic August 30, 1992 headlining appearance ...
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Buma/Stemra, the Netherlands' equivalent of organizations like ASCAP in the US and PRS for Music in the UK, this week announced that it is to extend its licensing fees to cover embedded content.So, say, you maintain a music blog - on MOG or elsewhere - and you embed material like, for instance, a YouTube video that features material from a composer or performer who is registered with Buma/Stemr...
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Welcome to one of London's best rock venues: sweaty, dark, a bit seedy. Converted from a warehouse into a theatre and cinema in 1926, it became a live venue in 1986. Everyone has played here, from hardcore classic rock bands (The Rolling Stones, Deep Purple) to the kind of artists (Kylie, Madonna) who appeal to the clientele attending G.A.Y. on a Saturday night. Amy Winehouse showed how amazin...
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Yes, my fellow connoisseurs of all things heavy, today is the day you’ve been waiting for: NIRVANA DAY! As you all well know, November 3rd sees the release of several Nirvana and Nirvana-related releases. For those of you who haven’t already created your NIRVANA DAY CHECKLIST, here’s a handy cheat sheet of the [...]
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Austin's the live music capitol of the world. Nashville is home to country and Seattle, well, it's just grabbing the overall title when it comes to music.Next Wednesday, October 29th, Seattle mayor Greg Nickels will announce a long-term strategy to make Seattle The City Of Music. Over the next 12 years they'll be creating little rock stars in the school system, investing in music education duri...
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By MARCUS WOHLSEN SAN DIEGO (AP) - Dr. John Kelsoe has spent his career trying to identify the biological roots of bipolar disorder. In December, he announced he had discovered several gene mutations closely tied to the disease, also known as manic depression. Then Kelsoe, a prominent psychiatric geneticist at the University of California, San Diego, did something provocative for the buttoned-d...
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A new documentary about Kurdt Cobain will hit DVD on February 19th. "Kurt Cobain: About A Son" is based on audio interviews between the Nirvana star and the writer Michael Azerrad in which Kurdt (chosen spelling of his own name) tells stories about his life. The conversations between these two add up to 25 hours of audio which Azerrad based his book "Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana". A...
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The movie business is in such dire need of a blockbuster that Universal has bought the rights to Charles Cross' Kurt Cobain biography, Heavier Than Heaven, and has even gone as far as hiring Cobain's widow, Courtney Love, as an executive producer for the film. Love, no stranger to motion pictures, holds most of the rights over the Nirvana catalog. Having Love on the production team will allow t...
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Nirvana's MTV Unplugged performance is coming to DVD for the first time since its November 18th, 1993 taping. Unplugged In New York makes it to DVD practically fourteen years to the date of its original taping and is out November 20th, 2007. The album version of the now legendary acoustic performance, released a year later in 1994, sold more than 5 million copies and received a Grammy Award f...
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