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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 ...

Kurt Cobain destroyed a cheap Japanese copy of a Fender Stratocaster on stage at one of Nirvana's first shows.

Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler has always been candid over his love and appreciation for bluesy-soul singer Janis Joplin, ...

UPDATE: A guitar destroyed by a then-relatively unknown Kurt Cobain during a 1991 concert ... recorded its ground-breaking, best-selling album "Nevermind." A local musician recovered the guitar ...

Brady said it was Kurt Cobain ... album “Nevermind.” Propelled by the hit single “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” “Nevermind” went on to knock Michael Jackson’s “Dangerous” from the ...

A guitar played and smashed by Kurt Cobain is up for auction ... nearly a year to the day after their seminal album Nevermind dethroned Michael Jackson from the top of the charts.

For Cobain, great punk and rock albums laid it all bare and could be as “sloppy” as a musician wanted as long as it was executed with “passion.” This is why he became endeared to the Pistols, who, in ...

For example, Bruce Springsteen released The Future of Rock and Roll as a promo-only compilation in Japan in 1988. This 16-track double disc is now incredibly hard to come by and can fetch around ...