Ten years ago Kurt Cobain, his song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and his band, Nirvana, ripped the music world inside out by effectively ending the reign of the heavy-metal hair bands. With the sudden ...

Between 1990 and 1994, Danny Goldberg was one of Nirvana’s managers, an enviable position considering the band’s stature during that era. Consequently, Goldberg got to know Kurt Cobain and the people ...

"And there had never quite been a rock star like Kurt Cobain," Cross eulogizes in this celebrity biography. Unfortunately, Cross, former editor of the Rocket, a Northwestern music and entertainment ...

Growing up in Aberdeen, Wash., Jeff Burlingame was briefly a teenage friend of Kurt Cobain. While Cobain flashed across the grunge music sky with the band Nirvana and burned out in his 1994 suicide in ...

Charles R. Cross was well into his research on Kurt Cobain, making slow but steady progress in persuading friends, family and acquaintances to share their memories of the late rock star, plus ...

Charles R. Cross, a Seattle-based music journalist who edited the city’s preeminent alt-weekly, the Rocket, and penned bestselling biographies of Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix and other major rock figures ...

Growing up in Aberdeen, Jeff Burlingame was briefly a teenage friend of Kurt Cobain. While Cobain flashed across the grunge music sky with the band Nirvana and burned out in his 1994 suicide in ...

Growing up in Aberdeen, Wash., Jeff Burlingame was briefly a teenage friend of Kurt Cobain. While Cobain flashed across the grunge music sky with the band Nirvana and burned out in his 1994 suicide in ...

“Nirvana” the book is a lot like Nirvana the band: fascinating, troubling, with long stretches of darkness and tedium, and flashes of brilliance that make it all worthwhile. “Nirvana: the Biography” ...

-- "Kurt Cobain: Oh Well, Whatever, Nevermind" by Jeff Burlingame. Enslow Publishers, 160 pages; $27.93. Growing up in Aberdeen, Wash., Jeff Burlingame was briefly a teenage friend of Kurt Cobain. As ...