Smells like American Spirits. An unopened pack of cigarettes previously owned by Kurt Cobain is among a batch of recent Nirvana items up for sale via Julien’s Auctions in Beverly Hills.
At the time of publishing this article, there are 11 bids placed for the pack of American Spirit menthols — the highest bid being $4,000. In the item’s listing, Julien’s writes that the pack was saved by Cobain’s roommate at the Los Angeles Exodus Recovery Center, where he stayed in March of 1994 shortly before his passing. The starting bid was $200. Update: The final auction price was $5,200.
Among Cobain’s other belongings in the Nirvana sale are his stage-played “Skystang” Fender guitar; a sweater; a smashed and signed Fender stratocaster; a pair of Levi’s he wore in the “Heart-Shaped Box” music video; and more.
According to Reuters, Cobain’s 1959 Martin D-18E guitar previously broke the world record...
At the time of publishing this article, there are 11 bids placed for the pack of American Spirit menthols — the highest bid being $4,000. In the item’s listing, Julien’s writes that the pack was saved by Cobain’s roommate at the Los Angeles Exodus Recovery Center, where he stayed in March of 1994 shortly before his passing. The starting bid was $200. Update: The final auction price was $5,200.
Among Cobain’s other belongings in the Nirvana sale are his stage-played “Skystang” Fender guitar; a sweater; a smashed and signed Fender stratocaster; a pair of Levi’s he wore in the “Heart-Shaped Box” music video; and more.
According to Reuters, Cobain’s 1959 Martin D-18E guitar previously broke the world record...
- 11/17/2023
- by Emma Carey
- Consequence - Music
For a music journalist in the Nineties, there could have been no better phone call. Not long after Michael Azerrad hung out with Kurt Cobain for Nirvana’s first Rolling Stone cover story, Courtney Love reached out to ask him if he wanted to write a book about Nirvana. He agreed, and after nine months of breakneck work, he managed to get Come As You Are out in 1993, just in time to coincide with Nirvana’s Nevermind follow-up, In Utero.
Thirty years later, Azerrad (also the author of the beloved...
Thirty years later, Azerrad (also the author of the beloved...
- 11/2/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Soon after Michael Azerrad first published the touchstone Nirvana biography Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana in 1993, his subject’s future was cut much too short. Now, in honor of its 30th anniversary, Azerrad is bringing the book up to date with The Amplified Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana, a “super-expanded” version that’s out October 24th.
Come As You Are was already celebrated upon its release, written in close collaboration with Nirvana and even co-signed by Kurt Cobain as “the best rock book [he’d] ever read.” But just seven months after the biography was published, Cobain died by suicide, completely re-contextualizing the stories Azerrad had just told — and designating Come As You Are as the only book about Nirvana to ever feature original interviews with all three band members.
The Amplified Come As You Are is something like a “book within a book,” splicing Azerrad...
Come As You Are was already celebrated upon its release, written in close collaboration with Nirvana and even co-signed by Kurt Cobain as “the best rock book [he’d] ever read.” But just seven months after the biography was published, Cobain died by suicide, completely re-contextualizing the stories Azerrad had just told — and designating Come As You Are as the only book about Nirvana to ever feature original interviews with all three band members.
The Amplified Come As You Are is something like a “book within a book,” splicing Azerrad...
- 9/27/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
Thirty years after the release of Nirvana’s final studio album, In Utero, there are somehow still new things to learn about the band, as original biographer Michael Azerrad proves in his upcoming expanded edition of his classic 1993 book, Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana. The new book, The Amplified Come As You Are (due Oct. 24) more than doubles the length of the original version, with new information from Azerrad’s original interviews, corrections (no, Kurt Cobain never actually lived under a bridge), and reflections on the initial text.
- 9/25/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
Glenn “Spot” Lockett, the trailblazing punk producer behind Sst Records and artistic statements by the likes of Hüsker Dü and Black Flag, has died at 72. The influential engineer had been battling fibrosis before he suffered a stroke several months earlier and ultimately passed away on Saturday at a healthcare facility in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
Former Sst Records co-owner Joe Carducci broke the news of Lockett’s death in a statement via Facebook, sharing that “his nurse told me he woke up alright but later showed no pulse and several attempts to revive him failed.” He noted the producer’s preferred name spelling “in all caps with a dot in the middle of the O” and called him “an architect of the natural approach to recording a band in the punk era.”
Carducci hailed Lockett for taking “the primacy of live jazz playing into recording bands against prevailing attempts to soften or...
Former Sst Records co-owner Joe Carducci broke the news of Lockett’s death in a statement via Facebook, sharing that “his nurse told me he woke up alright but later showed no pulse and several attempts to revive him failed.” He noted the producer’s preferred name spelling “in all caps with a dot in the middle of the O” and called him “an architect of the natural approach to recording a band in the punk era.”
Carducci hailed Lockett for taking “the primacy of live jazz playing into recording bands against prevailing attempts to soften or...
- 3/6/2023
- by Bryan Kress
- Consequence - Music
David Jude Jolicoeur, known widely as Trugoy the Dove and one of the founding members of the Long Island hip hop trio De La Soul, has died. He was 54.
His representative Tony Ferguson confirmed the reports Sunday. No other information was immediately available.
In recent years, Jolicoeur, had said he was battling congestive heart failure, living with a LifeVest machine affixed to his person. De La Soul was part of the hip-hop tribute at the Grammy Awards last week, but Trugoy was not onstage with his fellow bandmates.
Tributes poured in on social media shortly after the news broke Sunday.
Read More: De La Soul’s Music Will Finally Be Available For Streaming In March 2023
“Dave! It was a honor to share so many stages with you,” wrote rapper Big Daddy Kane on Instagram.
Rapper Erick Sermon posted on Instagram that “This one hurts. From Long Island from one of...
His representative Tony Ferguson confirmed the reports Sunday. No other information was immediately available.
In recent years, Jolicoeur, had said he was battling congestive heart failure, living with a LifeVest machine affixed to his person. De La Soul was part of the hip-hop tribute at the Grammy Awards last week, but Trugoy was not onstage with his fellow bandmates.
Tributes poured in on social media shortly after the news broke Sunday.
Read More: De La Soul’s Music Will Finally Be Available For Streaming In March 2023
“Dave! It was a honor to share so many stages with you,” wrote rapper Big Daddy Kane on Instagram.
Rapper Erick Sermon posted on Instagram that “This one hurts. From Long Island from one of...
- 2/13/2023
- by Alex Nino Gheciu
- ET Canada
There is nothing better than a cinematic needle drop. This year was absolutely loaded perfect song selections that charmed, horrified, confused or absolutely destroyed audiences. To celebrate the best moments of music in 2022’s film and television the Variety staff cobbled together a list of our favorite hits.
Labrinth & Zendaya “I’m Tired” – “Euphoria”
Music Supervisor: Jen Malone
This song is hauntingly perfect for the scene in which it is featured. Rue (Zendaya) is out of her mind on drugs and hallucinates that she is in a church before she sees herself in her living room dancing with her dead father. Zendaya proves that she is not only one of the best actresses of her time in this scene, but one hell of a singer to boot. – Joe Otterson
Donovan “Riki Tiki Tavi” – “Barbarian”
Music Supervisor: Jillian Ennis
During the tensest scene of this year’s horror hit “Barbarian,” Tess...
Labrinth & Zendaya “I’m Tired” – “Euphoria”
Music Supervisor: Jen Malone
This song is hauntingly perfect for the scene in which it is featured. Rue (Zendaya) is out of her mind on drugs and hallucinates that she is in a church before she sees herself in her living room dancing with her dead father. Zendaya proves that she is not only one of the best actresses of her time in this scene, but one hell of a singer to boot. – Joe Otterson
Donovan “Riki Tiki Tavi” – “Barbarian”
Music Supervisor: Jillian Ennis
During the tensest scene of this year’s horror hit “Barbarian,” Tess...
- 12/21/2022
- by Jazz Tangcay, William Earl, Joe Otterson, Kate Aurthur, Todd Gilchrist, EJ Panaligan, Ellise Shafer, Meredith Woerner, Katie Reul and Ethan Shanfeld
- Variety Film + TV
Nirvana is not quite to Matt Reeves’ “The Batman” as Prince was to Tim Burton’s 1989 version of “Batman.” But even with only one oldie being used instead of an entire new song score, the new film is being identified with primarily one musician, thanks to Kurt Cobain’s “Something in the Way” appearing at prominent beginning and end points in the film as well as being alluded to in the score.
So the gloomy-sounding song is experience something in the way of a comeback even outside of theaters, not surprisingly. As of this Friday afternoon writing, a week after the film’s release, “Something in the Way” sits at No. 3 on Spotify’s daily ranking of the top 50 streaming songs in the U.S., with 803,000 plays for the day, just behind the No. 1 Glass Animals and another movie-based song at No. 2, “We Don’t Care About Bruno.”
MRC Data...
So the gloomy-sounding song is experience something in the way of a comeback even outside of theaters, not surprisingly. As of this Friday afternoon writing, a week after the film’s release, “Something in the Way” sits at No. 3 on Spotify’s daily ranking of the top 50 streaming songs in the U.S., with 803,000 plays for the day, just behind the No. 1 Glass Animals and another movie-based song at No. 2, “We Don’t Care About Bruno.”
MRC Data...
- 3/11/2022
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
Dave Riley — the bassist for the fiercely independent, influential noise-rock group Big Black — died Tuesday after a short battle with cancer. His housemate, Rachel Brown, reported the news on Facebook. He was 59.
“In late August, [Riley] developed a persistent sore throat that wasn’t responsive to antibiotics,” Brown wrote. “Initially dismissed as acid reflux, further testing showed that he had a large squamous cell carcinoma in his throat that had already spread to several places in his lungs. Since treatment wouldn’t have made any difference, Dave chose to come home to die.
“In late August, [Riley] developed a persistent sore throat that wasn’t responsive to antibiotics,” Brown wrote. “Initially dismissed as acid reflux, further testing showed that he had a large squamous cell carcinoma in his throat that had already spread to several places in his lungs. Since treatment wouldn’t have made any difference, Dave chose to come home to die.
- 12/26/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Next week marks the 25th anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death, but Danny Goldberg says he’s only recently come to terms with the tragedy. “There was a long period of time where just thinking about it and getting into it this deeply would have been too painful for me,” the Nirvana co-manager tells Rolling Stone.
A couple years ago, during the 2017 holiday season, Goldberg decided he was ready to tell his story and put together a book proposal. “The circumstances inside my head and my availability to focus on it came together,...
A couple years ago, during the 2017 holiday season, Goldberg decided he was ready to tell his story and put together a book proposal. “The circumstances inside my head and my availability to focus on it came together,...
- 3/29/2019
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
- We may not be too concerned with unearthing dinosaur bones or friends of the bible tombs as much as we are with old recordings from bands that made their mark. A couple of years back they were pulling out old Beatles recordings from the cobwebs, so it comes as no surprise that they are still troves of footage on a generation’s rock icon Kurt Cobain. Despite the number of documentaries that have come out on the subject, doc-distributor specialist Balcony Releasing are looking to release of A.J. Schnack's Kurt Cobain About A Son (first at the IFC Center in Manhattan on October 3rd followed by Los Angeles and other cities.). Aj Schnack’s doc is an intimate and moving meditation on the late musician and artist Kurt Cobain, based on more than 25 hours of previously unheard audiotaped interviews conducted with Cobain by noted music journalist Michael Azerrad
- 7/23/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
By Sheri Linden
Sidetrack Films
Taking an unconventional approach to biography, documentarian AJ Schnack has created an intimate, lyrical meditation on the making of an artist. "Kurt Cobain: About a Son" is a true gift to fans of this important musician, whose 1994 suicide was international Page One news. No one speaks for the grunge great but Cobain in well-chosen excerpts from previously unreleased audiotape interviews. The docu, which screens Saturday and Sunday in AFI Fest's international docu competition, could carve out a specialty release niche and is sure to have a long life among Nirvana faithful.
It's a rare treat to hear an artist tell his own story, especially for performers of Cobain's stature. In "About a Son", there's not an intermediary talking head in sight, not a childhood photo -- indeed, images of Cobain and Nirvana appear only briefly, an hour into the proceedings and again at film's end. For most of the 97-minute running time, Cobain's disembodied voice-over narration is the only archival material; visuals consist of newly filmed footage of his stamping grounds in Washington state.
The artist's reflections are drawn from 25-plus hours of interviews that journalist Michael Azerrad conducted for his highly regarded book "Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana." The conversations took place in late 1992 and early '93, at the height of Nirvana's post-"Nevermind" fame. Cobain's keen intelligence, self-awareness and dry humor are evident throughout, the same mix of sarcasm and sincerity that he says he strove for in his lyrics.
As the filmmaker proved in "Gigantic", his affectionate, lively portrait of alt-pop duo They Might Be Giants, Schnack has a deft feel for matching cinematic tone to his subject's sensibility. He builds a strong sense of place and mood as he traces Cobain's odyssey from Aberdeen to Olympia to Seattle, the landscapes and cityscapes accumulating power. The seen-but-not-heard kids on the street are interesting to a point, but Schnack miscalculates with footage of the "average people" Cobain so dreaded. Even Olympia's outcast culture was something Cobain enjoyed only from a sequestered distance.
For those who can get past the visual absence of Cobain and the aural absence of his music on the excellent soundtrack, this is an indelible autobiographical document.
Sidetrack Films
Taking an unconventional approach to biography, documentarian AJ Schnack has created an intimate, lyrical meditation on the making of an artist. "Kurt Cobain: About a Son" is a true gift to fans of this important musician, whose 1994 suicide was international Page One news. No one speaks for the grunge great but Cobain in well-chosen excerpts from previously unreleased audiotape interviews. The docu, which screens Saturday and Sunday in AFI Fest's international docu competition, could carve out a specialty release niche and is sure to have a long life among Nirvana faithful.
It's a rare treat to hear an artist tell his own story, especially for performers of Cobain's stature. In "About a Son", there's not an intermediary talking head in sight, not a childhood photo -- indeed, images of Cobain and Nirvana appear only briefly, an hour into the proceedings and again at film's end. For most of the 97-minute running time, Cobain's disembodied voice-over narration is the only archival material; visuals consist of newly filmed footage of his stamping grounds in Washington state.
The artist's reflections are drawn from 25-plus hours of interviews that journalist Michael Azerrad conducted for his highly regarded book "Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana." The conversations took place in late 1992 and early '93, at the height of Nirvana's post-"Nevermind" fame. Cobain's keen intelligence, self-awareness and dry humor are evident throughout, the same mix of sarcasm and sincerity that he says he strove for in his lyrics.
As the filmmaker proved in "Gigantic", his affectionate, lively portrait of alt-pop duo They Might Be Giants, Schnack has a deft feel for matching cinematic tone to his subject's sensibility. He builds a strong sense of place and mood as he traces Cobain's odyssey from Aberdeen to Olympia to Seattle, the landscapes and cityscapes accumulating power. The seen-but-not-heard kids on the street are interesting to a point, but Schnack miscalculates with footage of the "average people" Cobain so dreaded. Even Olympia's outcast culture was something Cobain enjoyed only from a sequestered distance.
For those who can get past the visual absence of Cobain and the aural absence of his music on the excellent soundtrack, this is an indelible autobiographical document.
- 11/3/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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