Guitar Hero 5 hit the stores last week, and so far it doesn’t seem to be winning any popularity contests. One of its biggest non-fans is this guy, who seems less than pleased that the game gives you the aesthetically dubious option of hearing Kurt Cobain play songs by big-haired wankers like Jon Bon [...]

In 1991, Nirvana released their second record album, Nevermind. At the time, not many people would have suspected at the time that this little-known, Seattle-based grunge band would soon volley to dizzying heights, and, further, that this album cover would become so iconic that the naked baby therein, Spencer Elden, would forever use it as [...]

Among pretentious types (you know… all of those “coffee drinking, iPod listening, twee expression using hipsters that are the downfall of society“), remakes are generally thought of as merely derivative and unoriginal at best. This sweeping generalization refers not only to cinematic endeavors but also to the material of that obligatory noise lovingly known as [...]

And here you thought that the memory of Kurt Cobain had been exploited in in every imaginable way. Clearly you failed to reckon with the dynamo of creativity that is the postmodern art world. (Or possibly post-postmodern; accounts differ on this point.) Australian artist Natascha Stellmach’s latest exhibition in Berlin—entitled “Set Me [...]

The shoes of dead people never wear out, and neither do stories about trying to market them. It’s been nearly a year since Courtney Love went ballistic about Doc Martens’ attempt to use her late husband’s image in an ad campaign; a rep said, “It’s outrageous that a company is allowed to commercially gain [...]

Courtney Love, aka “the grunge version of Yoko Ono,” has found yet another way to endear herself to her hordes of fans. The largely talent-free trainwreck has signed on as an executive producer for a planned Kurt Cobain biographical film based on Charles Cross’ biography Heavier than Heaven. Courtney’s attorney Howard Weitzman is [...]

Remember the Kurt Cobain lunchboxes that Courtney Love allegedly endorsed?

We look forward to the inevitable Pete Doherty lunchbox set with detachable syringe and tourniquet. The items in the above image can be purchased at wickedcoolstuff.com – While Supplies Last!

Less than a month ago, the Doc Martens adverts featuring Kurt Cobain doing it on a cloud went into heavy rotation. Then Courtney Love got offended that Kurt’s image was exploited or some such nonsense, so the ads were pulled. What Courtney was really angry about was that she wasn’t making any money off said [...]