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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

 

An undated file photo shows "Nirvana" lead singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain performing on stage

HOQUIAM, Wash. (AP) - The Kurt Cobain Memorial Committee is starting with a small concert to raise money for a future youth center and park in the rocker's name. They hope it can develop into a yearly celebration for the former lead singer of Nirvana, who would now be 40 years old.

"Our initial intentions were to have a February concert, but that wasn't very conducive to what we want to accomplish, which ultimately is an outdoor music festival, something along the lines of Warped Tour," said Jeff Burlingame, president of the committee.

The first step in reaching the committee's goal comes Saturday with a small concert - Lounge Acts 2007 - featuring punk…

Tragic NIRVANA star KURT COBAIN is to be honoured by fans in Hoquiam, Washington with a tribute concert on Saturday (15Sep07). Bands from Seattle and the surrounding area will perform Nirvana tunes at the memorial, which is being held to raise money for a youth centre and memorial park in Cobain's name. Cobain committed suicide in 1994.

www.myspace.com/ein Aberdeen- and Olympia-based JED will headline a benefit concert for the Kurt Cobain Memorial Committee at 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15, at the historic 7th Street Theatre in Hoquiam. The show is open to all ages.

 

An all-ages concert in Hoquiam next weekend, featuring some of the top punk and grunge rock bands in the Northwest and home-grown talent, isn’t quite a belated birthday party for the late, great Kurt Cobain. But it’s the thought that counts, and this could be the foundation for bigger things.

The Kurt Cobain Memorial Committee will stage the concert — “Lounge Acts 2007” — at 6 p.m. Saturday at the historic 7th Street Theatre. The nonprofit group is raising money for a youth center and memorial park in Cobain’s name.

As a special tribute, each band will perform a different Nirvana song.

Tickets cost $10 in advance…

Artists who die young are either dismissed as overly hyped (Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain) or hailed as rock 'n' roll immortals (Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain). The truth, however, is always more complicated and hard to reach than we choose to make it.

Shortly before his suicide in April 1994 in his Seattle home, Cobain was slapped with the "spokesman for a generation" label, one that stuck to him long after his death. (The fact that a suicidal heroin addict was named the spokesman for Generation X tells you all you need to know about how the elder generation felt about that particular age group.) But before he was a superstar celebrity, appearing on MTV's "Headbanger's Ball" in a prom dress and filling tabloid pages with his stormy relationship with Courtney Love, Kurt Cobain was just a young…