One of them being anti-corporate rock. Eventually, they became the thing they opposed but they were clearly uncomfortable with their rising fame. But Metallica didn’t begin in the mainstream either.

Kurt Cobain may have come to regret Nirvana becoming such an all-conquering, mainstream proposition in the wake of Nevermind’s monstrous success, but in 1990 he was determined that the band’s second ...

When Kurt Cobain died of suicide in 1994, it was a defining moment for a generation. But for Dave Grohl, it was a personal tragedy. It meant the end of Nirvana, the band they'd raised to stardom ...

Were Kurt Cobain still here, he would turn 58 on Thursday, Feb. 20. While the still-mourning and the would-be clairvoyants want to speculate on the figure an aging Cobain would cut, we have enough ...