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Filter is very proud to present the exclusive first look at the trailer for About A Son the new documentary about Kurt Cobain from AJ Schnack. The movie splices together new footage with photographs to Cobain’s story using audio from over 25 hours of tape gleaned from interview sessions between Cobain and Michael Azzerad, author of Come As You Are: The Story Of Nirvana.

| “About A Son” | Trailer |

The soundtrack to About A Son is available from Barsuk Records and features many of the artists Cobain cites as influences, as well a score by musician and producer Steve Fisk and Death Cab for Cutie frontman Benjamin Gibbard.


About A Son Tracklisting:

01. Steve Fisk & Benjamin Gibbard - Overture
02. "never intended" [interview excerpt]
03. Arlo Guthrie - Motorcycle Song
04. The Melvins - Eye Flys
05. "punk rock" [interview excerpt]
06. Bad Brains - Banned In D.C.
07. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Up Around…

AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine recently reviewed the About A Son soundtrack:

AJ Schnack's documentary Kurt Cobain: About a Son is constructed largely from interviews author/journalist Michael Azerrad conducted with the Nirvana singer/songwriter when he was writing their authorized biography, Come as You Are. About a Son is also a biography, but it relies on Cobain's own recollections, pairing it with still photos and newly shot footage of Olympia, Seattle, and Aberdeen, WA, all intended to create the perception of seeing the world through Cobain's eyes. There is no Nirvana footage in the movie and there are no Nirvana songs on the accompanying soundtrack, which instead relies heavily on songs important and influential to Kurt, along with five interview excerpts and a couple of dreamy, atmospheric instrumentals from Death Cab for…

Dave Grohl hasn’t tried to hide his distaste for Courtney Love over the years: In 2002, he and Krist Novoselic filed a legal motion compelling Kurt Cobain’s widow to undergo a psychiatric evaluation as they all battled over the rights to unreleased Nirvana music (he also called her an “ugly fucking bitch” at a show). Now Grohl has spoken to the Guardian about “Let it Die,” a new Foo Fighters song off the band’s forthcoming Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (out September 25; read our sneak peek here) that seems to address the former Nirvana drummer’s feelings about Cobain’s relationship with Love. The song contains the lyrics: “A simple man and his blushing bride / Intravenous, intertwined.”

“[It’s] a song that’s written about feeling helpless to someone else’s demise,” he said. “I’ve seen people lose it all to drugs and heartbreak and…

Photo courtesy of CourtneyLove.com. 

"I did not fuck you," was how Courtney Love responded when told by her Seattle attorneys that she owed them up to $340,000 plus interest. That was the balance due on legal fees attorney Katherine Hendricks and O.Yale Lewis say Love incurred in a 2002 lawsuit against former members of her late husband's band, Nirvana, from which she ultimately earned at least $9 million. 

But the troubled rocker and widow of Kurt Cobain has now agreed to settle the attorneys' tab for an undisclosed amount, according to King County Superior Court records. The settlement, effective Monday, Sept. 17, apparently ends a three-year claim by Hendricks and Lewis, who alleged Love breached their legal-services contract. Hendricks would not discuss details of the settlement or confirm whether Love had paid her debt on time, as she agreed to do in an Aug. 28 settlement report. A trial…

There is a very well-written wrap-up of the Kurt Cobain Memorial Committee's concert held in Aberdeen Saturday in the Aberdeen Daily World.

You can learn more about the committee and what it does here. The concert Saturday was a fundraiser to help build a memorial park and teen center in Aberdeen in Kurt's name.

You can read the article about the show here. You can also read it below.

Inaugural Cobain event draws about 600

By Steven Friederich
Daily World Writer

Kurt Cobain was there.

At least it felt like it to some of those at a benefit concert in his
memory Saturday night at the 7th Street Theatre.

About an hour before the concert in Hoquiam was set to begin,
everything was quiet under the Young Street Bridge in Aberdeen, where
the grunge rock icon is said to have hung out as a young man,
seemingly with no place else to…

DAILY WORLD / STEVEN FRIEDERICH Jared Hayes, 15, a student at Taholah High School, waits on a curb outside the 7th Street Theatre in Hoquiam and anxiously holds a ticket to Lounge Acts 2007, a benefit concert to raise money for a youth center and park in Kurt Cobain’s name.

Kurt Cobain was there.

At least it felt like it to some of those at a benefit concert in his memory Saturday night at the 7th Street Theatre.

About an hour before the concert in Hoquiam was set to begin, everything was quiet under the Young Street Bridge in Aberdeen, where the grunge rock icon is said to have hung out as a young man, seemingly with no place else to go.

Everything was quiet at his old house down the street, too.

For more then a decade now, fans have come to…

Pitchfork weighs in on the soundtrack here and gives the record a 7.0.  The review also talks about the film itself:

In the past decade we've already seen a hackneyed conspiracy-theory documentary (Nick Broomfield's Kurt and Courtney), a thorough, sensitive biography (Charles Cross' Heavier Than Heaven), the 2002 publication of Cobain's journals and a demo-saturated three-CD Nirvana box set (2004's With the Lights Out) that felt more like an invasive, archeological excavation than a definitive overview of a band's work.

So what can AJ Schnack's new Cobain documentary, About a Son, contribute to this hagiography? Unlike the aforementioned works, it has the uncanny effect of making its subject seem like he's still alive. By setting revelatory audio interviews with Cobain-- conducted by writer Michael Azerrad for his 1993 Nirvana book, Come as You Are-- to contemporary, serene images of the cities he inhabited (Aberdeen, Olympia and Seattle), the film…

Cobain docu uses singer's own words, narration

Smells like teen spirit. Independent DVD supplier Shout Factory, known for its eclectic retro pop culture offerings, has acquired home entertainment rights to "Kurt Cobain About a Son," the impressionistic documentary about the late leader of Nirvana and de facto founder of the grunge-rock phenomenon of the early 1990s.

The 2006 production, screened at film festivals around the world and nominated for a 2007 Independent Spirit Award, consists entirely of excerpts from interview tapes Cobain made before his April 1994 suicide. It will be released on DVD in February 2008, timed to coincide with Cobain's birthday. The docu is slated to open theatrically nationwide in October.

"Not since the late 1960s and early 1970s has there been a musical artist who so completely spoke for an entire generation," Shout Factory COO Bob Emmer said. "After the breakup of the Beatles and the…

Foo Fighter Dave Grohl talks to Keith Cameron about what kept him alive and kicking after the death of Kurt Cobain and Nirvana

The Dalmacia hotel in Hammersmith, west London, is clean but frills-free. That it can offer competitively priced triple rooms means its clientele sometimes includes rock bands with budgets on the threadbare end of shoestring. In October 1990, that meant Nirvana, who had arrived in London from Seattle without a record deal but with a wide-eyed new drummer whose powerhouse style would help propel them to global fame in little more than 12 months.

To Dave Grohl, at 21 already a veteran of European squat tours with his previous band Scream, the Dalmacia seemed the height of luxury. "I loved that place," he says. "That's where I discovered English breakfast tea. I didn't realise it had caffeine in it. After seven cups I thought I was going to…

Five more cities for our theatrical run this fall.  Look for even more dates to be announced in the coming weeks.  Here's the full line-up to date:

New York City
IFC Center
Opens October 3

Los Angeles
Landmark Nuart
Opens October 5

Seattle
Landmark Varsity
Opens October 12

Philadelphia
Ritz Theatre
Opens October 19

Washington DC
E Street Cinema
Opens October 26

Amherst, MA
Amherst Cinema Arts Center
Opens October 26

Bellingham, WA
Pickford Cinema
Opens October 27

Denver
Starz Film Center
Opens November 2

Nashville
The Belcourt
Opens November 2

St Louis
Landmark Tivoli
Opens November 2

Boston (Cambridge)
Landmark Kendall Square
Opens November 9

Columbia, SC
Nickelodeon Theatre
Opens November 9

San Francisco
Landmark Lumiere Theatre
Opens November 30

Berkeley, CA
Landmark Shattuck Theatres
Opens November 30