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"We kept the groupies and drug dealers away": Steve Albini on the making of In Utero, Nirvana's bleak, beautiful swansong
By Owen Cummings published
The unimaginable success of Nevermind made Nirvana the world's most reluctant and confused rock stars. Steve Albini looks back on what Kurt Cobain's band did next, and the birth of their dark masterpiece In Utero

"Food was flying everywhere, with no regard for the industry geeks whose suits were getting splattered": That time Nirvana got kicked out of their Nevermind release party for starting a drunken food fight
By Liz Scarlett published
Prior to the release of Nevermind, Nirvana were kicked out of their own album listening party for drunken shenanigans involving guacamole, smuggled bourbon and vomit

"Sick! So punk!": Luxury fashion brand Saint Laurent is selling second-hand Nirvana T-shirts for thousands of pounds
By Paul Brannigan published
Psst! Wanna buy a grunge T-shirt? That'll be ONE MILLION POUNDS please sucker

How the CIA inspired Firestarter, why Axl Rose hates JD Salinger, David Bowie’s Orwell musical and why Jimmy Savile was the first ever club DJ: The books and stories that influenced classic songs
By Scott Rowley published
How books by Hemingway, Stephen King, the Marquis De Sade etc influenced Metallica, Nirvana, Iron Maiden, Kate Bush, The Prodigy, The Jam, David Bowie and more

"He’s a desperate, untalented piece of s***": Nirvana on the time Bon Jovi wanted to look like them
By Niall Doherty published
In this 1993 interview, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain rails against the "desperate" rock dinosaurs looking to him for fresh inspiration

These are the rock and metal songs that have achieved a billion or more streams on Spotify
By Paul Travers published
Queen, AC/DC, Nirvana, Journey, and who else? The rock tracks that have achieved over one billion streams on Spotify

Remembering the time MTV got a bunch of unsuspecting college students to review Nirvana's In Utero
By Niall Doherty published
Nirvana's third and final record, In Utero, got a mixed report from students when MTV headed to a college campus in 1993

10 non-famous bands who have the same name as a way more famous band
By Paul Travers published
The psychedelic Nirvana, the thrash Poison and the early 70s Iron Maiden - come on in, your time is now
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