“Smells Like Teen Spirit” is a shoo-in on this list of Nirvana songs that will always be popular, even though Kurt Cobain hated it. It was the band’s biggest hit to date. The song peaked on the ...

Thirty years ago, Nirvana’s final act began with the September 1993 release of In Utero. Recorded with Steve Albini—the engineer behind Pixies’ Surfer Rosa—In Utero sounded as vital and twitchy as an ...

Nirvana at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards rehearsals (photo: Jeff Kravitz / FilmMagic via Getty Images). Picasso once famously said that good artists borrow and great artists steal—though if we ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Nirvana only released a handful of singles throughout their ...

Part of the allure of Nirvana was their ability to juxtapose incredibly dark, somber lyricism with powerful, driving rock arrangements that almost made it easy to forget just how bleak the songs ...

Kurt Cobain was convinced no one could misunderstand the intent of the lyrics to this track. Sadly, many still did ...