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As someone who has tried to read everything written about Nirvana, one of Kurt Cobain's most admirable qualities was his public reverence for bands that helped shape his burgeoning musical legacy.

When Nirvana became the torchbearer of the grunge generation, Cobain never failed to mention his adoration for unsung artists like Half Japanese, the Vaselines, Flipper and Beat Happening. The latter group, one of the Northwest's earliest purveyors of lo-fi indie rock, never became huge because of it, but they had an especially profound influence on Cobain.

With a new generation viewing Nirvana's music through a historic lens, the soundtrack to A.J. Schnack's "Kurt Cobain: About a Son" documentary serves as an exquisitely unconventional timeline of his life in musical terms.

At the…

Nirvana's Nov. 18, 1993, "MTV Unplugged" taping will make its DVD debut Nov. 20 via Universal Music Enterprises. "MTV Unplugged in New York" was released Nov. 1, 1994, on CD, the first Nirvana product to appear following Kurt Cobain's suicide that April.

Like the CD, the DVD will include the songs "Something in the Way" and "Oh Me," which did not appear on the original MTV broadcast. The DVD also sports four tracks from the band's soundcheck and previously unreleased behind-the-scenes footage.

Nirvana's "Unplugged" date is arguably the most famous in the long-running series, as the band eschewed most of its hits in favor of lesser-known album tracks and obscure covers (particularly, three Meat Puppets songs). The live version of "About a Girl" reached No. 1 on Billboard's Modern Rock tally.

Here is the track list for "MTV Unplugged in New York":

"About a Girl"

A fallen building at the mill where Kurt Cobain’s father worked in “Kurt Cobain About a Son.”

It’s hard to know who the audience might be for the documentary oddity “Kurt Cobain About a Son,” but I bet its subject, the guy who’s still being called on to entertain us even after his death, would have hated it. 

Directed, if that’s the right word, by A J Schnack, the film weds about an hour and a half of audio interviews by the journalist Michael Azerrad with a stream of pretty visual images of places and unidentified people shot in and around where, for much of his too-short, 27-year life, Mr. Cobain lived, loved (if never enough, it seems), labored, played guitar, shot heroin and created beautiful, angry, popular music with…

Rolling Stone magazine has posted a list of what they call the 25 most underrated guitarists. Taking the top spot is multi-instrumentalist Prince, with Nirvana vocalist Kurt Cobain taking the second place. The list includes a number of figures from bands like Kiss and Fleetwood Mac, but also includes The Clash's Mick Jones, The Smiths/Modest Mouse Johnny Mar, John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins and that kid from Silverchair.

Statistics show that the average rock fan spends roughly 4.7 hours per year arguing over who’s the greatest guitarist of all time (see: Rolling Stone’s list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time). We asked you who’s most criminally left out of those discussions — in other words, who are the most…

Courtney Love has hit out at Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl, claiming that Kurt Cobain "loathed" him.

The song "Let It Die" on Foo Fighters new album Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, is widely assumed to be about the relationship between Kurt and Courtney.

It contains the lyric: "A simple man and his blushing bride/Intravenous, intertwined...You're so considerate/Did you ever think of me?"

Writing on her MySpace page, Courtney said: "As for that drummer, well he's hit on me so many times. He's just a very very conflicted guy about me, which is why he continually writes songs about me to hear he 'hates' me more than 'anyone else'.

"Kurt loathed HIM more than anyone else (except a journalist). In his will he made a codicil that Grohl was no longer a member of Nirvana. I just ignored the guy and will continue to."

She added:…

Rocker Dave Grohl almost turned his back on music after Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain killed himself in 1994.

Grohl, who played drums in the legendary group, was devastated by Cobain's suicide and admits his career as the Foo Fighters frontman came about almost by accident.

He says: "When Nirvana was finished I didn't really know what to do. Our lives and our world were turned upside down.

"It's hard to imagine playing music after something like that. It was hard for me. I had always written and recorded songs by myself. I wouldn't really play them for anyone.

"(So) after Nirvana was finished I spent a lot of time just travelling around and thinking, and then I thought, 'I know what I will do. I'll book six…

An exclusive look at some of images from Kurt Cobain About A Son, shot by noted photographer Charles Peterson, is up over at RollingStone.com.  Half the photographs are from Charles' grunge archives, while the other half are some of the newly shot images that Charles created for the film.  You can check it out here.  The site is also featuring the work of two other Seattlites - our composers Steve Fisk and Ben Gibbard, with Overture, their opening piece of score for the film.  Overture is also available on the movie soundtrack.

Former NIRVANA star DAVE GROHL insists he was more than former bandmate KURT COBAIN's "sideman", maintaining his role was fundamental to the band's success. The Foo Fighters frontman, 38, insists he and bassist Krist Novoselic played crucial roles in creating the 90s band's distinct sound and is tired of being overshadowed by late singer Cobain. He says, "I was actually Nirvana's fifth drummer and if you listen to the recordings with the previous guys you will notice it sounds different. "Krist and I have been called sidemen to Kurt for f**king years - that lawsuit is done with, y'know? "We've been called hired guns and I just laugh. Anyone who has ever been in a band, hell... anyone who has ever even listened to a band, understands what happens when one of those elements is removed from the combination. It just falls apart."