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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

Krist Novoselic: “The bass got caught in the TV lights – and then boom!”
By Joel McIver published
At the 1992 MTV Awards, Nirvana bassman Krist Novoselic threw his Gibson 25 feet in the air, forgetting it would come down again shortly afterwards

Watch soldiers from the US and Indian armies perform Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit
By Matt Parker published
The term 'joint military exercise' takes on new meaning

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

Kurt Cobain-signed 1973 Fender Mustang – which he smashed onstage in 1989 – goes up for auction
By Matt Owen published
The signed guitar was later exchanged for a Gibson SG, after Cobain's guitar-smashing antics left him without a guitar to play for Nirvana's gigs
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