Explore Kurt Cobain's life, Nirvana's iconic history, and the auction of his smashed guitar.

The 1985 novel that rarely left the Nirvana frontman’s pocket and became the basis for one of In Utero’s heaviest tracks ...

According to Nirvana guitar tech Earnie Bailey, Cobain was far from a vintage guitar fiend, and had no qualms with making his ...

A smashed guitar once owned by late Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain sold at auction last week for more than $157,000 at a ...

UPDATE: A guitar destroyed by a then-relatively unknown Kurt Cobain during a 1991 concert sold for $157,773 during a recent auction, Hakes Auctions reported. The guitar, a relatively inexpensive ...

If you’ve been trying to nail the Smells Like Teen Spirit tone and found there was always something in the way, maybe this is ...

On Jan. 18, 1991, Kurt Cobain of Nirvana took a hammer to a cheap Japanese-made guitar at the end of a concert at Evergreen ...

A guitar played and smashed by Kurt Cobain is up for auction. Before you say “oh well, whatever, nevermind,” know the guitar’s history holds considerable Portland connections. Janel “Hell ...

Unfortunate members include Amy Winehouse, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Janis Joplin, who all died at the same young age. Some say these people may have had difficult childhoods, grew up as ...

Although Kurt Cobain did have a healthy obsession with bands like The Beatles, he felt that two rock stars could never get through to him if they tried. Because there’s a certain image of what a rock ...