Kurt Cobain: Celebs Rumors

Courtney Love has shared some unpublished lyrics that Kurt Cobain wrote for Nirvana’s biggest hit ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’.The Hole frontwoman was taking part in Rob Harvilla’s podcast 60 Songs That Explain The ‘90s when she shared anecdotes about her relationship with Kurt Cobain, and some lyrics that the singer had written for Nirvana‘s most famous track.The episode in question was Harvilla’s first one back, following a three-month hiatus. Taking part as a guest for the episode, Love explained how she came to be a fan of the podcast, and provided fans with an insight into the Nirvana frontman’s writing process.Alongside numerous anecdotes — including how Cobain wrote his 1993 track ‘Dumb’ in just 20 minutes when the pair were in Amsterdam — Love also shared some of his unpublished lyric ideas, originally written for what would soon become ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’.“Some of these were in these journals, and some of them are unpublished,” she explains, proceeding to recite some lyrics.

Dave Sirulnick Dave Sirulnick spent nearly three decades at MTV, helping launch the signature “Week in Rock” news franchise and overseeing “Total Request Live” — as well as reality series including “Laguna Beach,” “Cribs” and “My Super Sweet 16.” He spearheaded MTV’s Video Music Awards, as well as its ground-breaking “Choose or Lose” presidential campaign coverage and news programming stemming from world events such as Hurricane Katrina, the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the 2003 war in Iraq. Sirulnick rose to executive vice president for multiplatform production, news and music for MTV before departing in 2015 as part of a major Viacom reorg. With the news that Paramount Global has eliminated the last vestiges of MTV News (which had already been significantly downsized), Variety asked Sirulnick — now president of entertainment at RadicalMedia — to share his thoughts.

during an Apple Music interview. “I want to beat the best. I don’t want to win the championship because it’s just me and a bunch of jabronis, to use a wrestling term.”“It’s like Michael Jordan, arguably the greatest sports competitor I’ll ever see in my lifetime,” he added.The Post reached out to Corgan for comment.The singer revealed in the interview that even though both Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana often went toe-to-toe with each other during the 1990s, he still respected the late Nirvana frontman.“I will go down always as saying, Kurt was the most talented guy of our generation,” he said.

Billy Corgan has recalled his reaction to the news of Kurt Cobain‘s death — explaining that it felt like he had lost his “greatest opponent”.The Smashing Pumpkins frontman discussed the impact Cobain and Nirvana had on his own success in a new interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, and expressed how he missed the sense of competition he had with the grunge icons.Reflecting on the numerous influential rock groups of the ’90s, Corgan took a moment to speak on the late Nirvana frontman — explaining how his success challenged the Smashing Pumpkins to continuously improve.“When Kurt died, I cried because I lost my greatest opponent,” he told the host. “I want to beat the best.

I Want My MTV,” “completely destroyed. “I mean broken glass tables, broken televisions, a full wet-bar with every glass broken,” the book reveals.Loder’s room was junked as well.Though a smiling Loder denied doing it — MTV kicked in with Nirvana’s tour manager to cover some $30,000 worth of damage — Finnerty has her doubts: “I have a hard time believing Krist would ruin his room and then ruin Kurt’s room, too.”But that was then.

A post shared by Rita Lee Jones (@ritalee_oficial)Known for being one of Brazil’s most successful singer-songwriters, Lee got her start in the group Os Mutantes who were considered one of Brazil’s most influential rock bands. Her album ‘Fruto Proibido’ (Forbidden Fruit) with the band Tutti Frutti is considered a Brazilian music classic.Lee’s musical career spanned more than 50 years.

Snoop Dogg has revealed his feelings about AI technology creating music and mimicking the voices of pop stars.Currently, there is an AI-generated song going viral of Michael Jackson covering ’90s No Limit rapper C-Murder’s hit song, ‘Down 4 My N’s’.On Monday (May 1), the Long Beach rapper made his feelings on AI covers known, taking to Instagram to say that it has gotten “outta hand.” He posted a video of the audio to his Instagram feed, captioning the post with “Wow.”A post shared by snoopdogg (@snoopdogg)Fans were similarly shocked. The most popular comment read: “I’ve done a lot of things in my life I’m not proud of.

Kurt Cobain singing Hole‘s ‘Celebrity Skin’.READ MORE: In the age of AI Oasis, there’s no point being ordinaryThe original track was released in 1998 by the Los Angeles-based alternative rock band, which was founded by the Nirvana frontman’s former wife, Courtney Love, and guitarist Eric Erlandson.Now, a clip has emerged with Cobain’s vocals on the track, which has prompted mixed reactions from fans.“This version was made based on a human interpretation, but the voice was synthesized by AI. Many more to come,” poster FaustoX wrote in the YouTube description.“Whoever is offended by this version, I really hope you understand that this is not a part of Kurt’s or Courtney’s official work,” they added in a follow-up comment.

Foo Fighters are healing through music. The rock band announced the forthcoming release of their first new music since the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins last year.  will be out on June 2 while a new single, "Rescued," is available now. «A brutally honest and emotionally raw response to everything Foo Fighters endured over the last year,  is a testament to the healing powers of music, friendship and family,» states a press release announcing the news.

Courtney Love has remembered her husband and Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain on the 29th anniversary of his death.Cobain died by suicide on April 5, 1994, and Love shared a photograph of him to mark the anniversary earlier this week.The photo, of Cobain’s hands, was taken by R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe, as Love revealed.“I love beautiful hands, it’s the first thing I look at in another,” she wrote. “I love that the only photograph of Kurt that [Stipe] took, despite being a lover of all sorts of beauty, kudzu, @helenachristensen , river pheonix; dozens if not 100s of gorgeous photos of people he finds and sees their ‘Shen’ (a Chinese word of what’s in the eyes – loosely translated as ‘mojo’ but more about the ‘twinkle’)“But Micheal saw these hands.

Julia MacCary editor Courtney Love has taken aim at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, penning a scathing essay that calls out the dearth of women and Black artists showcased in the Cleveland-based organization. “If so few women are being inducted into the Rock Hall, then the nominating committee is broken,” Love wrote in an op-ed for the Guardian. “If so few Black artists, so few women of colour, are being inducted, then the voting process needs to be overhauled. Music is a lifeforce that is constantly evolving – and they can’t keep up. Shame on HBO for propping up this farce.” Love did not hold back when calling out the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. “Barely 8% of its inductees are female. The canon-making doesn’t just reek of sexist gatekeeping, but also purposeful ignorance and hostility,” wrote Love, a musician, songwriter and actor who led the 1990s band Hole and was married to the late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain (who was posthumously inducted).

Gina Birch of post-punk pioneers The Raincoats has spoken to NME about the release of her long-awaited debut solo album ‘I Play My Bass Loud’, and what to expect from her upcoming live shows.The musician, visual artist and filmmaker released her solo debut last month via Third Man Records and is set to kick off some UK live dates later this month. “It’s thrilling – it’s nothing I thought I’d be doing this time last year,” Birch told NME of going it alone.She compared the feeling to a point in the early 1990s, when she had thought she had turned her back on performing in order to focus on her work directing music videos for other bands (she would go on to work with The Libertines, New Order, Beth Orton and more).“I was in the edit suite, I think I was working on a video for The Pogues, and the phone rang,” she recalled. “It was [music agent] Russell Warby, who asked, ‘Would The Raincoats like to go on tour with Nirvana?’ It seemed mad, like ‘I’m making films, what the fuck?’ But it also seemed mad not to do it.

Mark Lanegan “co-wrote” Nirvana’s closing ‘Nevermind’ track ‘Something In The Way’.An excerpt from the new book Lanegan featuring former Queens Of The Stone Age bandmate Nick Oliveri claims that the late Screaming Trees frontman helped write lyrics for the track with Kurt Cobain, which went uncredited.“Mark said he wrote some lyrics on ‘Something In The Way’ with Kurt on ‘Nevermind’,” Oliveri told author Greg Prato via Consequence. “But Kurt had played on some of Mark’s solo stuff, ‘The Winding Sheet’.“So, instead of getting paid, they just did this thing where, ‘Hey man, I added a lyric on your song and you added a lyric on my song. Let’s just call it even.

Iron Maiden skateboard that was handpainted by Kurt Cobain to raise money for charity.The skateboading legend bought the original version of the skateboard, which features the artwork for Maiden’s album ‘The Killers’, at an auction last year.It was handpainted by Cobain in 1985 and following the auction, Hawk went about tracing its authenticity.Yesterday (February 20), he released a series of replicas of the deck on what would have been Cobain’s 56th birthday as well as prints and stickers of the design, with proceeds going toward raising awareness for mental health and toward building skate parks.A post shared by Tony Hawk (@tonyhawk)Writing on Instagram, Hawk said: “In order to better understand the provenance of this ‘unicorn’ skateboard that I acquired last year, I went to Seattle to get the story directly from Cameron Ross (the original owner).“With inspiration from @thespacewitch [Frances Bean Cobain] and the help of @dupedupe, we are offering a photorealistic version of this deck in the form of actual skateboards, prints and stickers. We kept it real with the original Phillips shape and OG truck-holes, and added KC & JP signatures on the top graphic.“All proceeds from these sales will be equally split between the Jed Foundation and The Skatepark Project in order to provide resources for those struggling with mental health, and to create more public skateparks in underserved areas.

Courtney Love would be happy about this news!

The Recording Academy announced its 2023 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipients today, with Bobby McFerrin, Nirvana, Ma Rainey, Nile Rodgers, Slick Rick “The Ruler,” The Supremes, and Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson of Heart making the cut.

Courtney Love is sticking by her story. After claiming on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast that she was fired from 1999’s “Fight Club” because of a fight with Brad Pitt, a Variety report and an unnamed source within it refuted the claim.

Courtney Love has a lot more to say about Brad Pitt!

Courtney Love is airing out old grievances involving Fight Club star Brad Pitt. 

OK, earlier today, you probably read from us that Courtney Love was fired from “Fight Club.” The rocker, singer, actress, and former member of grunge band Hole claims she had the lead role of Marla Singer in the David Fincher film (the part that Helen Bonham Carter played). But during this casting process, she apparently went “nuclear” on Brad Pitt for proposing he star in a Kurt Cobain film directed by Gus Van Sant, and then Pitt got her fired from the film (“I wouldn’t let Brad play Kurt,” Love said.

Are Courtney Love and Brad Pitt mortal enemies? That’s what she seems to think!

Kurt Cobain have strongly criticised a recent stage adaptation of Gus Van Sant’s Last Days.Van Sant’s 2005 film is a fictionalised account of a young musician’s final days, loosely based on the Nirvana frontman, and stars Michael Pitt as protagonist Blake. Like Cobain, Blake escapes a rehabilitation facility days before he takes his own life.

Caroline Polachek has today (October 17) shared a new video for her latest single, ‘Sunset’ – check it out below.The song was co-produced by Polachek with Sega Bodega; Polachek also co-directed the song’s Barcelona-filmed video with Matt Copson. She had previously teased the track’s release on Instagram earlier this month.The single follows on from ‘Billions’, which arrived earlier this year and comes just weeks after the musician shared a track written for Kurt Cobain-inspired opera Last Days.Oliver Leith’s Last Days opera is based on Gus Van Sant’s 2005 film of the same name, which was inspired by the missing five days between Cobain absconding from a rehab facility in Los Angeles and killing himself in an outbuilding of his Seattle home.

the production, called Last Days, was not “authorised” and is “an attempt that seeks to profit” on the harrowing end to Cobain’s life. The highly-rated production of the 2005 Gus Van Sant film of the same name tells of the lead singer’s final hours alone before he took his own life aged 27 in 1994. A representative for Kurt Cobain’s estate told MailOnline: “This show has been created and written without the permission or input of the Cobain estate.

DEALSBDi Music has signed singer songwriter Aimée to a worldwide publishing deal. “I am extremely grateful and excited to be part of BDi Music”, she says. “They have such great enthusiasm and excitement, which makes me feel really heard and appreciated.

Caroline Polachek has shared a new track written for Kurt Cobain-inspired opera Last Days.Oliver Leith’s Last Days opera is based on Gus Van Sant’s 2005 film of the same name, which was inspired by the missing five days between Cobain absconding from a rehab facility in Los Angeles and killing himself in an outbuilding of his Seattle home. It is currently being performed at London’s Royal Opera House until October 11.Polachek’s aria, ‘Non Voglio Mai Vedere Il Sole Tramontare’, was produced by Danny L Harle and the title is Italian for “I Never Want To See The Sun Go Down”.

Chris Shiflett has hinted Foo Fighters will make a new record when the time is right. The 'Best of You' rockers continue to mourn the loss of their beloved drummer Taylor Hawkins - who tragically died aged 50 in March - and honour his memory with the second of two memorial shows at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles on Tuesday (27. 09.

Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett expects the band to make another album.The future of the band has been uncertain following the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins in March. Foo Fighters cancelled all their scheduled gigs following the loss and have avoided discussing plans beyond a pair of tribute concerts for Hawkins.However, in a new interview, guitarist Chris Shiflett has said that he expects there to be a new album from the band at some point.Speaking on The Plug With Justin Jay, Shiflett (who’s recently released solo singles ‘Born & Raised‘ and ‘Long, Long Year‘) was asked if other interviewers had brought up Hawkins’ passing or if it’s been “an elephant in the room”.“Most people that I’ve encountered have been respectful about it or try to avoid it,” said Shiflett.

Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor  September 15, 2022 1:30 pm Bylines:By Pat Saperstein Brett Morgen went through a lot to make “Moonage Daydream.” It takes certain amount of obsession to capture on film the essence of the life of David Bowie, the shapeshifting music visionary, artist and actor. For Morgen, known for his work exploring another singular artist with “Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck,” as well as “The Kid Stays in the Picture” and “Jane,” crafting the first authorized Bowie documentary was a nearly seven-year process. Until it was time to create the encompassing sound mix with help from Bowie collaborator Tony Visconti, he worked mostly alone, weathering both the pandemic and a serious heart attack.

Forget Seberg, forget Mank, forget Judy — Andrew Dominik’s Venice Film Festival competition entry Blonde takes a blowtorch to the entire concept of the Hollywood biopic and arrives at something almost without precedent.

Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz are enjoying an afternoon of shopping!

threw out his case Friday, on the grounds he waited too long to take legal action under Marsha’s Law. The 2005 legislation gives child pornography victims the right to sue those who produce, distribute or possess the material, but the statute of limitations expires after the victim turns 28.Elder was 30 when he filed the suit in 2021.His lawyers argued US District Judge Fernando Olguin’s ruling in Los Angeles was a misinterpretation of the law.“Most child pornography is traded well into the victim’s adulthood,” attorney Margaret Mabie told NPR.

Nicola Peltz and Brooklyn Beckham have ensured the public knows they're a solid team as they stepped out hand-in-hand amid growing rumours of a feud with Victoria Beckham.The 23 year old aspiring chef, who recently said he'll always have his wife's back, and the 27 year old Transformers actress were spotted putting on a united front as they stepped out in Los Angeles together. Brooklyn dressed down for the outing as he donned a white T-shirt with a picture of Nirvana's famed late singer Kurt Cobain on the front.

Spencer Elden, best known as the baby on the cover of Nirvana's 1991 album Nevermind has been unsuccessful in his attempts to sue the band on the grounds that the artwork constitutes child porn. Billboard reports that the case has been dismissed with judge Fernando M.

Nirvana‘s second album ‘Nevermind’ (1991) constitutes child pornography has been dismissed by a US District Judge in Los Angeles.Spencer Elden, who appeared as a baby on the classic record’s front cover, had sought damages from the surviving members of the band (Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic) as well as the estate of Kurt Cobain, photographer Kirk Weddle, and numerous record labels.Elden, now 31-years-old, was four months old when he was photographed by Weddle for the artwork.The latest ruling will prevent Elden from filing a fourth lawsuit. Lawyers representing Nirvana have in turn claimed that the suit has come to a “final conclusion”, although Elden has said he will appeal.“In short, because it is undisputed that [Elden] did not file his complaint within ten years after he discovered a violation… the court concludes that his claim is untimely,” District Judge Fernando Olguin wrote (via Rolling Stone).“Because plaintiff had an opportunity to address the deficiencies in his complaint regarding the statute of limitations, the court is persuaded that it would be futile to afford plaintiff a fourth opportunity to file an amended complaint.”Bert Deixler, a lawyer for Nirvana, told Reuters: “We are pleased that this meritless case has been brought to a speedy final conclusion.”Stating that Elden “intends to appeal” the decision, his lawyer Margaret Mabie added: “Under this reading of the law, child pornography remedies vaporise once the victim in the contraband image turns 28 years old.

The man whose infant image graced the cover of Nirvana’s multimillion-selling Nevermind album has seen his lawsuit about that photo tossed by a Los Angeles judge.