Celebrities Spawn Copycat Suicides, Study Confirms Oct 2, 2009
a country), and are often associated with media coverage of celebrity suicides, such as that of the musician Kurt Cobain. Dr Mesoudi said: "The findings of the computer simulations strongly support the proposed link between the mass reporting of a prestigious celebrity's suicide and an increase in national suicide figures. This highlights the need for media guidelines that restrict the dissemination and glorification of suicides, as already introduced in many countries, such as Austria,... (Science Daily)
Attention seeking Oct 2, 2009
Singer and songwriter Jay Treadell, who channels Thom Yorke and Kurt Cobain with his bleached hair, says guitar bands will rise again, people should not accept what they are given and that modern life is, basically, rubbish. Is it difficult to get attention as a guitar band, given that guitars are out of fashion. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
The Quirky World of Indie Musician and Pop Artist Daniel Johnston Comes to Life on the iPhone Sep 30, 2009
He has acquired legions of fans including legends such as David Bowie, Tom Waits, Beck and the late Kurt Cobain, who wore his Hi, How Are You frog t-shirt in concerts. Johnstons art has been featured in prestigious art galleries around the globe, including the Whitney Museum of Art, in its Biennial exhibition, when Johnston was referred to as one of the most creative contemporary artists in the world. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
'Bright Star' Sep 25, 2009
John Keats is one of the most celebrated of the Romantic poets, of course, as tragic in his own way (he died at 25) as Kurt Cobain or Jim Morrison. (His own way was decidedly different; he died not of suicide or general dissolution, but of tuberculosis, following his brother and mother to a consumptive death. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
The making of Glenn Beck Sep 21, 2009
It is a narrative with shades of another haunted Washingtonian who found entertainment fame, Kurt Cobain. Both men hailed from broken homes in the drizzly Pacific Northwest. (Salon)
'Guitar Hero 5' hits high note Sep 19, 2009
Visually, "GH5" gets a face lift and looks pretty good, especially with its stable of unlockable rock stars (Shirley Manson, Kurt Cobain, Johnny Cash, etc. . (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
A Decade Past 'Rushmore,' Schwartzman Hits Stride Sep 18, 2009
"It wasn't Schwarzenegger or Mel Gibson. It wasn't 'Lethal Weapon.' ... Music was Kurt Cobain, Pixies, David Bowie. Music affected me on a deep, deep level -- made me feel a part of something.". He played drums in Phantom Planet, a band formed during high school and which found some renown after having their song "California" chosen as the theme song to the TV series "The O.C." More recently, Schwartzman started the side project Coconut Records (a band) and did the theme to "Bored to Death.". (KIRO TV, WA)
Jason Schwartzman isnt Bored one bit Sep 18, 2009
Music was Kurt Cobain, Pixies, David Bowie. Music affected me on a deep, deep level made me feel a part of something. (MSNBC -- Television)
Video games: Mop-top multimedia Sep 18, 2009
In Guitar Hero 5, an avatar of the late Nirvana leader Kurt Cobain doesn t just play his own songs; he can also cover the likes of Bon Jovi - the very symbol of the hair-metal excess to which the grunge movement was a reaction. Nirvana s surviving members have criticized the game, and Cobain s widow, musician Courtney Love, now claims game maker Activision abused an agreement with her. (Boston Globe)
How Vedder survived Pearl Jam's success Sep 18, 2009
The other was Kurt Cobain, whose band Nirvana have been written into the rock canon, selling ten million copies in the US of their second album, Nevermind, released in September 1991. A month or so earlier, Pearl Jam had released their debut, Ten. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Rhythm games rock Sep 17, 2009
Unlike the sight of Kurt Cobain belting Bon Jovi in Guitar Hero 5, players can't enjoy the anachronism of mixing and matching the Beatles' early songs to late-career settings and vice versa. This devotion to authenticity manifests in more disappointing and simply dry aspects to the game, such as the lack of drum fills and the abrupt cutting out of music when a song is failed. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
Kanye West Isn't The Only Bad Boy In Video Music Awards History Sep 17, 2009
" Eventually, Em and Triumph would bury their beef in the "Ass Like That" video, but to this day, he and Moby have yet to settle their squabble. Vince Neil: At the 1989 awards, Neil supposedly hell-bent on revenge after Guns N' Roses guitarist Izzy Stradlin either a) kicked or b) made a pass at his wife leapt out of the crowd and sucker-punched Strads as he walked offstage. GN'R frontman Axl Rose decided to stick up for his guitarist, and spent much of the following year trying to get even with... (VHI.com -- Music News)
Give it a West! Sep 15, 2009
No. 4: He s compared himself without irony to icons Michael Jordon, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison and said he would be in the Bible if they wrote it again ... No. 4: He s compared himself without irony to icons Michael Jordon, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison and said he would be in the Bible if they wrote it again. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
The Mysteries Behind Society's Most Famous Suicides Sep 15, 2009
Focusing on 20 famous figures who took their own lives, Death Becomes Them provides the back stories behind the tragic and manic last days of icons ranging from Kurt Cobain to Vincent van Gogh to Virginia Woolf ... Or that when the police departed and she was finally left alone with her dead husband's corpse Courtney Love dipped her hands in Kurt Cobain's blood before eerily washing a piece of his blown-out skull ... And everyone from authors to filmmakers have long believed that Courtney Love... (Time.com)
Os Mutantes is alive, well, and as bizarre as ever Sep 13, 2009
There s also the famous story of how Nirvana s Kurt Cobain tried, unsuccessfully, to reunite the band in 1993 by writing a letter to Baptista. Especially now, when musical fusion in the form of mash-ups, sampling, and cross-cultural pollination is more prevalent than ever, it s easy to see what those artists admired about Os Mutantes music. (Boston Globe)
Cobain appearance in 'Guitar Hero' hits sour note Sep 12, 2009
The two surviving members of 90s-era grunge band Nirvana have spoken out against the appearance of deceased frontman Kurt Cobain in Activision's music game Guitar Hero 5. In a joint statement , ex-Nirvana members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic said they were "dismayed and very disappointed" by Cobain's in-game character. (USA Today -- Tech)
Nirvana 'dismayed' at Cobain game Sep 12, 2009
Kurt Cobain died in 1994 of a self-inflicted gun shot wound. Former Nirvana members Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl have said they are "dismayed and very disappointed" at how Kurt Cobain is used in a video game. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Nirvana Bandmates 'Dismayed' By Kurt Cobain's Image In 'Guitar Hero 5' Sep 12, 2009
Nirvana Bandmates 'Dismayed' By Kurt Cobain's Image In 'Guitar Hero 5 ... " Of course, this drew a response from Activision itself, who, in a statement released Thursday (September 10), denied Love's claims and said they had attained all the necessary agreements to feature Cobain in the game. "Guitar Hero secured the necessary licensing rights from the Cobain estate in a written agreement signed by Courtney Love to use Kurt Cobain's likeness as a fully playable character in 'Guitar Hero 5,' "... (VHI.com -- Music News)
Nirvana members dismayed by Guitar Hero Sep 11, 2009
LOS ANGELES -- Kurt Cobain s appearance in the latest Guitar Hero video game is not hitting the right notes with the surviving members of Nirvana. Also Online. (KHOU.com, TX)
Surviving Nirvana members dismayed by Kurt Cobain character in 'Guitar Hero 5' Sep 11, 2009
Coastal Flood Advisory in CT. Will Ellen DeGeneres be a good judge on 'American Idol. (FOX61, CT)
You want a revolution? Ars reviews The Beatles: Rock Band Sep 8, 2009
Unlike the oddity of seeing Kurt Cobain rapping in Guitar Hero 5, you won't see Lennon drumming here, or Ringo playing the bass. In fact, in the career mode the first few venues are straight-ahead perfomances at venues such as the Cavern Club, Ed Sullivan Theater, and Shea Stadium. (Ars Technica)
Listen Up: Reunited Os Mutantes is ready to rumba again Sep 8, 2009
By Edna Gundersen, Steve Jones, Jerry Shriver and Brian Mansfield, USA TODAY Os Mutantes, the storied beacon of Brazil's Tropiclia movement, long an idol of such U.S. musical tastemakers as , , Kurt Cobain, the and Devendra Banhart, finally resurfaces with its first studio album in 35 years, Haih or Amortecedor (* * * out of four). Genre hero Tom Z. (USA Today -- Life)
'Guitar Hero 5' makes rocking out easier Sep 6, 2009
As usual, Activision has invited some guest stars: Playable characters include Johnny Cash, Kurt Cobain and Carlos Santana. Long live rock. (Florida Today)
Critics Hail Guitar Hero(R) 5 Sep 4, 2009
Featuring some of music's leading bands and artists across a multitude of genres, the ability for players to rock any way they want with any combination of multiple guitarists, bassists, drummers and singers in any game mode, Guitar Hero 5 allows players to step into the spotlight as iconic rockers of the past, present and future with an all-star line-up of in-game playable characters, including Kurt Cobain, Johnny Cash, Carlos Santana, Garbage's Shirley Manson and Matt Bellamy of Muse. For a... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
'Guitar Hero 5' makes rocking out easier than ever Sep 3, 2009
As usual, Activision has invited some guest stars: Playable characters include Johnny Cash, Kurt Cobain and Carlos Santana. And in the Xbox 360 version, you can have all three combine in the ultimate backup band for your Xbox Live avatar. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Kurt Cobain brought back to life in Guitar Hero Sep 2, 2009
A screen grab from the new Guitar Hero game, which features Kurt Cobain ... Tragic Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain will be brought back to life this autumn, after developers of the hugely-popular Guitar Hero series revealed the iconic singer songwriter will feature in the latest incarnation of the computer game ... "Kurt Cobain is one of the most recognisable frontmen in rock n roll history and it s an honour to have two of Nirvana's masterpieces included in Guitar Hero 5," Tim Riley, Activision's... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
'Guitar Hero' rocks on Sep 2, 2009
New in-game characters include Johnny Cash, Kurt Cobain, Carlos Santana, Shirley Manson (Garbage) and Matt Bellamy (Muse). The Man in Black appears in the song Ring of Fire; Cobain appears with two Nirvana songs, Smells Like Teen Spirit and a previously unreleased live recording of Lithium. (USA Today -- Tech)
Kurt Cobain in Guitar He... Aug 30, 2009
IGN: Kurt Cobain to Make His Videogame Debut This September in Guitar Hero 5 ... Kurt Cobain to Make His Videogame Debut This September in Guitar Hero 5 ... August 28, 2009 - Santa Monica, CA - Remembered as one of the most iconic artists in the history of alternative rock, Kurt Cobain's enduring legacy continues with his video game debut as one of five exclusive in-game artists in. (IGN PS2)
Emile Hirsch Channels Kurt Cobain For Catherine Hardwicke's 'Hamlet' Aug 27, 2009
Emile Hirsch Channels Kurt Cobain For Catherine Hardwicke's 'Hamlet ... Now, the director and her lead actor are talking about the newest personality to be blended into the cast: Kurt Cobain ... "So, we're using some of the cooler Shakespeare language, in a musical way. [My Hamlet] is like an [aspiring] rock star. He's got six people that go to his performances, go to clubs and listen to him. It's like an early Kurt Cobain.". (VHI.com -- Music News)
Michael Jackson's Iconic White Glove To Be Auctioned Aug 14, 2009
Glove worn at legendary "Motown 25" special will be sold at New York's Hard Rock Caf. " When they met up again in March 1983, during the Motown special taping, Jackson sang with his brothers and took the stage alone to unveil the moonwalk while performing "Billie Jean. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Kurt Cobain's Overlooked Legacy Aug 13, 2009
Kurt Cobain's life has often been characterized in terms of his tragic death ... Kurt Cobain has become the most recent rock star to become unanimously deified, and he now stands as one of rock s untouchable figures ... Since his untimely death in 1993 Kurt Cobain has had hyperbole after hyperbole piled on to his name. (Suite101.com)
Aberdeen Cobain monument gets bleeped Aug 8, 2009
Three letters in a four-letter word have been replaced with asterisks on a Kurt Cobain monument near an Aberdeen bridge where the late Nirvana frontman spent time when he was growing up. The donated granite monument in the unofficial park in Cobain s honor features quotes from lyrics. (Longview Daily News, WA)
F-word in Cobain quote sparks controversy Aug 5, 2009
- The late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain is igniting a new controversy in his hometown of Aberdeen, Wash. This one involves one of the quotes attributed to him on a new granite marker at an unofficial neighborhood park honoring him. (MSNBC -- News)
'F-Word' On Cobain Monument Causes Stir Aug 5, 2009
-- A granite marker honoring the memory of Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain is stirring controversy in the singer's home town of Aberdeen. The monument at the unofficial Kurt Cobain riverfront park contains a number quotes from the singer, including "holding my baby is the best drug in the world.". (KIRO TV, WA)
Jackson Songwriting Royalties Strike Right Note for New Band of Investors Aug 3, 2009
Jackson, Grateful Dead Royalties Sound Sweet to Music Investors - Bloomberg. Updated: New York, Aug 03 04:11 London, Aug 03 09:11 Tokyo, Aug 03 17:11. (Bloomberg)
Grunge survivors Pearl Jam to tour Aug 2, 2009
They were called "sell-outs" by Nirvana s Kurt Cobain for adding a more traditional, guitar solo-heavy element to grunge s distorted, angsty sound. In 2009, though, they are virtually the last grunge band standing. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Unauthorized Michael Jackson Bio Paints Grim Picture Of Final Months Jul 15, 2009
" The Canadian journalist is best known for a series of unauthorized celebrity biographies including "Who Killed Kurt Cobain. The Mysterious Death of an Icon," "Bad and Beautiful: Inside the Dazzling and Deadly World of Supermodels" and "Celine Dion: Behind the Fairytale - A Very, Very Unauthorized Biography. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Triple J poll keeps on rockin' in a man's world Jul 14, 2009
Throughout the online debate of the morning after the countdown, I kept thinking of Kurt Cobain. The sensitive Piscean who played with gender and proclaimed, "the future of rock belongs to women", who learned from riot grrrl and used entertainment as a tool to "blow (sexism) wide open". (The Age, Australia)
Taylor Momsen Says She's A 'Vampire' Jul 14, 2009
I like Kurt Cobain, but I'm not trying to emulate everything about him,' the 'Gossip Girl' star says of heroin rumors ... I like Kurt Cobain, but I'm not trying to emulate everything about him. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Smells like old times at Triple J Jul 13, 2009
Nirvana's Kurt Cobain. Latest related coverage. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Entertain us Jul 13, 2009
The band, which dissolved when frontman Kurt Cobain committed suicide in 1994, were unbackable favourites. Chris Cheney, lead singer for the Living End, who themselves landed at 34, said Teen Spirit was one of the "great rock songs of all time". (The Age, Australia)
Divisadero Corridor - bohemian chic Jul 5, 2009
Must-have: Worn Free's T-shirts featuring cultural icons like Kurt Cobain ($25-$49), never-worn Christian Dior 1980s gold metal frames ($175). The 415: 260 Divisadero St.; (415) 845-4722. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Bon's jots spark high vol00004000tage sale for AC/DC Jul 5, 2009
The notebooks were part of a pop culture sale that included a Beatles Sgt Pepper's poster, autographed by all four members, which sold for $US52,500, a bass guitar that had belonged to Kurt Cobain ($US43,750), and a leather jacket worn by actor Bob Crane as Hogan in the TV series Hogan's Heroes ($US40,000). Handwritten lyrics by Bob Dylan sold for $US12,500. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
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James Howard Kunstler on Michael Jackson as America Jul 2, 2009
The Man in the Mirror - Clusterfuck Nation. Clusterfuck Nation Comment on Current Events by the Author of "The Long Emergency". (Harper's Magazine)
We watched his star rise and fall, knowing how it would end Jul 2, 2009
In 1923, the poet William Carlos Williams wrote the pure products of America go crazy, and in this he predicted Judy Garland, Marlon Brando, Elvis Presley, Phil Spector, Brian Wilson, Kurt Cobain - any public figure whose inability to handle stardom becomes part of that stardom. So it was with Jackson. (Boston Globe)
Instant Michael Jackson books coming Jun 30, 2009
Ian Halperin, who has written about such musicians as Kurt Cobain and Celine Dion, had been working on a Jackson book when the singer died last week. Halperin's book, "Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson," is due in late July. (MSNBC -- Music)
Michael Jackson's celebrity suicide (158) Jun 28, 2009
I Shall Knitpick about Kurt Cobain. Thank you for this fine tribute, Mr. Wyman. (Salon)
Two Lost Icons: For Generation X, A Really Bad Day Jun 27, 2009
In the 1990s, members of Generation X would often laugh in bars about how the time of the Boomers was passing about how the quaintness and naivete that made up the 1960s was, finally, a grave being danced on by Kurt Cobain. Today, members of that same generation sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings of pop.. (Fox News)
For Mean Creek, being perceived as rockers is no mean feat Jun 26, 2009
For Keene, people like Dylan, John Lennon, and Nirvana s Kurt Cobain were raw, inspirational forces ... When you hear Like a Rolling Stone or you hear Kurt Cobain scream, you can t just sit there and not feel anything. (Boston Globe)
Michael Jackson Dies: Michael Jackson Dead After Cardiac Arrest Jun 26, 2009
Kurt Cobain, who an earlier post eluded to, was barely a musician and isn't good enough to even mention in the same sentence as MJ.. We glorify heroin addicts (cobain) and misunderstand true geniuses. (FOX61, CT)
Despite star's troubles,the music was a thriller Jun 26, 2009
He s the first 80s pop icon to die, and people will remember where they were when they got the news, the way we did with John Lennon and Kurt Cobain. We grew up with Jackson, purchasing his records, copying his dance moves, buying gloves (but we needed only one) to emulate his fashion sense, watching his face morph from youthful to unsettling. (Boston Globe)
Beatles poster sells for $50,000 Jun 25, 2009
A bass guitar owned by late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain was snapped up for $43,750 (26,415). In total, the auction fetched more than $650,000 (392,200), said Christie's. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Nathan Brown I've learnt a lot since I brought my Kurt Cobain haircut down the Calder Highway from Bendigo back in 1996. Read more Jun 21, 2009
IT GOES without saying that I've learnt a lot since I brought my Kurt Cobain haircut down the Calder Highway from Bendigo back in 1996. The learning curve at my new club, the Western Bulldogs, had parallels with my teenaged development in matters female both a case of "I wish I'd known then what what I know now". (The Age, Australia)
Resurrecting the band Jun 17, 2009
Kurt Cobain (lead vocals): Our other choices had better pipes, but this band doesn't need a flashy singer. And unlike Elvis and Sinatra and Mercury, he died at his artistic peak. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Newsweek: Sonic Youth embraces the fringe Jun 16, 2009
Once Kurt Cobain had repaid the favor by constantly name-checking his elders, it was as if the gaggle of industry bigwigs who hadn't understood Nirvana's rise anyway threw up their hands and said, might as well try making these guys go gold: shoot some videos, do MTVyou know, the works. The business plan failed. (MSNBC -- Music)
JJ Gonson dusts off musical memories Jun 5, 2009
"Ah, the beautiful boy," Gonson says, gazing at a black-and-white portrait of late Nirvana leader Kurt Cobain. "The first time I saw them, there were 15 people in the room at Green Street Station. We took them home, because there was nowhere else for them to go. They were like puppies.". (Boston Globe)
David Carradine Dead at 72 Jun 5, 2009
Singer Kurt Cobain was found dead at his home in Seattle, Washington on April 8, 1994. Cobain, the lead singer of Nirvana, had recently checked out of a drug rehab facility and been reported suicidal by his wife, Courtney Love. (Suite101.com)
Neil Young puts his all in long-awaited 'Archives' Jun 3, 2009
" Immersed in the second volume, which is expected in two or three years, Young also has mapped out the third and fourth and continues to mine sources for buried nuggets. He was dismayed to discover the BBC had destroyed several early Young performances. But his search for rare Buffalo Springfield concert footage turned up a Hollywood Bowl show, and a hi-res version of Mr. Soul soon will be available as a Blu-ray download. "There are so many great artists I'd love to see fleshed out this way,... (USA Today -- Life)
Where Are Those '90s Artists Now? (Don't Go There!) Jun 1, 2009
So while you stand in line for your Phish tickets wondering how long ago Kurt Cobain died (15 years) and trying to remember who sang that song "I Touch Myself" (it was the Divinyls), here's a brief update on some '90s artists who won't be on the comeback trail this summer. Kid 'n Play. (Fox News)
Singer Love sued over unpaid debt May 29, 2009
Love married Nirvana's Kurt Cobain in February 1992 ... Lawyers for Love, the widow of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, were not available for comment. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Cool Seattle Tours with a Subcultur... May 28, 2009
The Viretta Park bench, on gorgeous Lake Washington, and the story of how it became a memorial to Kurt Cobain ... Learn about the really important things in Seattle life: Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Chihuly, sockeye salmon and more. (Suite101.com)
20 memorable shows in 20 years at Star Lake May 28, 2009
Courtney Love, always something of a mess, was even more of a mess after the shotgun suicide of husband Kurt Cobain and her nerves were still frayed when she ventured out the next year on Lollapalooza. Hole played a seething 20 minutes or so at Star Lake before Love freaked and rushed off the stage. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Web video killed the live album May 23, 2009
And when he swapped his left-handed Fender for an acoustic Martin D-18 and played About a Girl for the 1993 MTV Unplugged session, Kurt Cobain went from angsty grungeball to tortured artist. Covering obscure Meat Puppets and Vaselines songs showed his deep respect for, and knowledge of, the rock canon. (MSNBC -- Music)
Saberi Partner's Iranian Film Makes Cannes Debut May 15, 2009
The characters are memorable, from the young musicians, with their Joy Division and Kurt Cobain posters, to a movie-mad DVD bootlegger with pet birds named Scarlett and Rhett. They make their music on rooftops, self-built shacks and soundproofed rooms to evade the authorities, who have declared many forms of Western music in violation of the country's strict Islamic Sharia law. (Newsmax)
