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Kurt Cobain: About A Son

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By Matt Reeder (CHARTattack) February 19, 2008 4:05 pm
Forget for a moment that Kurt Cobain was the frontman for one of the most influential rock bands of the last 30 years. Also ignore the fact that he killed himself when he was 27. Not so easy to do, is it? Remarkably, director AJ Schnack's film about Cobain's life actually manages to cut through all the misplaced hero worship and sensationalized...
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WATCH: Courtney Love's on-stage rant about Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl

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By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) November 14, 2011 10:32 am
Just in case you were wondering if Courtney Love is still an insane bitch, here's a video of the former Hole frontwoman's on-stage freakout during a Brazil performance this weekend. Someone in the audience was holding up a picture of Love's late husband Kurt Cobain, and she reacted in typical form: calling the fan an asshole, storming off the...
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I Read The News Today... For July 28, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 28, 2011 2:36 pm
Fucked Up recently performed David Comes To Life's "Queen Of Hearts" with Cults' Madeline Follin at Seattle's Capitol Hill Block Party. It was the first time they'd ever done the song properly live, since Follin appears on the studio version of the tune, but hasn't appeared on stage with the band to do it live yet. Morrissey apparently...
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I Read The News Today... For July 14, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 14, 2011 3:29 pm
Martin Scorsese (The Departed, Taxi Driver) has directed a new documentary about George Harrison. Living In The Material World will be coming out on DVD on Oct. 10, and will premiere on HBO this fall. It's got interviews with Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, Phil Spector, Ringo Starr, director and former Monty Python member Terry Gilliam (...
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I Read The News Today... For June 16, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 16, 2011 2:32 pm
Really? This guy says he only got $2,500 to allegedly shoot Tupac? Doesn't that seem a little low to you? Hatebreed vocalist Jamey Jasta's solo album will feature guest appearances from members of Lamb Of God, As I Lay Dying and All That Remains, along with Black Label Society's Zakk Wylde. Play it around your mom to annoy her. Metallica are...
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I Read The News Today... For June 9, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 9, 2011 2:44 pm
Snoop Dogg's been added to the list of presenters at this year's MuchMusic Video Awards. If you're wandering around the Much building on June 19 and you want to find him, all you need to do is move towards the stench of pot and you're good. Actor Colin Farrell (London Boulevard, Onedine) will also hand someone one of these newfangled trophies:...
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Kurt Cobain Had A Big Penis

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) May 26, 2011 12:34 pm
Many things have been said about Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, but here's one that's not really been among them: He apparently had a giant schlong. Courtney Love decided to pull out the, ahem, big gun in a conversation about her late husband in the new issue of GQ."Kurt had more presence and more beauty than Brad Pitt," Love said after being asked...
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I Read The News Today... For April 6, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 6, 2011 3:06 pm
Death From Above 1979's Sebastien Grainger and Josh Reichmann are good buds, having formed the classily-named Bad Tits together last year. Now Grainger's offered his remixing skills to Reichmann, and has done a version of Reichmann's "All Day Wrong," which will be found on Reichmann's upcoming After Live album. —Spinner "SMASH BEEP WOOOOOOSH CLANG...
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Jared Leto Posts Video Of Him Aping Kurt Cobain On Deathiversary

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 6, 2011 1:13 pm
Tuesday marked the 17th anniversary of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain's suicide, and of course it was marked throughout the music world by publications and artists. Jared Leto was one of those who paid tribute to the singer/guitarist, who killed himself on April 5, 1994.Leto, whose resemblance to Cobain's been noted by many in the past, posted a...
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I Read The News Today... For March 24, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 24, 2011 4:21 pm
Quick! Start practicing your falsetto! Bon Iver's long-awaited sophomore album is coming out sometime in June. —Rolling Stone Rufus Wainwright is releasing a box set later this year for all your Judy Garland-inspired needs. —rufuswainwright.com MUTEK's annual Avant_MUTEK series is coming to Toronto, Vancouver, Chicago and New York. International...
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I Read The News Today... For March 16, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 16, 2011 2:59 pm
In case you've been wondering what Feist has been doing, she showed up randomly at Chilly Gonzales' show in Los Angeles on Saturday, covered a Tweet song and then dunked Peaches in a pool. Good for her. —The Hollywood Reporter Turns out Ezra Levant doesn't like Matthew Good very much. —Toronto Sun Hamilton, Ont.'s Sandman Viper Command are...
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I Read The News Today... For Sept. 30, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) September 30, 2010 12:32 pm
Toronto electro-poppers Small Sins are touring Canada this November in support of their recently released Pot Calls Kettle Black album. —MySpace Against Me! have cancelled all their upcoming tour dates for 2010 due to "unforeseen circumstances." Bummer. Ticket refunds are available at point of purchase. —againstme.net San Diego nu-psych rockers...
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Who Should Play Kurt Cobain?

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) May 17, 2010 11:56 am
Last month's announcement that a Kurt Cobain biopic was to be made has resulted in a deluge of suggestions as to who should play the late Nirvana frontman who took his own life in 1994. Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain, Donnie Darko) is the latest name added to the list of people who've been suggested for the role, having jokingly pointed out...
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I Read The News Today... For May 14, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff May 14, 2010 2:32 pm
Perez Hilton and Lily Allen are at it again! Perez snarked at Allen for crying after Fulham FC lost the UEFA final match to Atletico Madrid and also made fun of her for drinking. In response, Allen called him a "woman-hating retard." I don't know whether to laugh at you guys or puke in my mouth. —MTV News Singing cats will save the...
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Today In Music History: Kurt Cobain Kills Himself On April 5, 1994

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) April 5, 2010 11:45 am
It's thought Kurt Cobain killed himself in a garage apartment at his home in Seattle on this day in 1994. Cobain's electrician found his body on April 8, 1994 when he came to install a security system in the Nirvana singer/guitarist's house. A suicide note was found next to Cobain's body, and the coroner theorized Cobain killed himself on April...
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Early Kurt Cobain Demos Found At Garage Sale

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) April 5, 2010 11:06 am
Update 4/6: This might be an April Fool's joke, but enjoy it anyway...  A lucky person rummaging through bins at a garage sale is about to make a hell of a lot of money because he stumbled upon what might be the earliest known demos of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. According to Blurt Online, the man discovered a series of Phillips...
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Jon Bon Jovi Also Dislikes Kurt Cobain (In Video Game Form)

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 17, 2009 4:10 pm
Jon Bon Jovi has joined the debate over the Kurt Cobain avatar that appears in the recently released Guitar Hero 5. Courtney Love, Cobain's widow, threatened legal action over the character last week, and former Nirvana members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic also voiced their displeasure about it. "I don't know that I would have wanted it...
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Kurt Cobain's Guitar Hero Character Causes A Flap

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 11, 2009 10:20 am
Courtney Love and surviving Nirvana members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic aren't particularly happy that Activision has decided to include a Kurt Cobain character in the upcoming Guitar Hero 5 video game. Love threatened legal action over the character on her Twitter account on Thursday, saying she didn't approve it. "i think Kurt would...
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Kurt Cobain In Guitar Hero 5

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) August 25, 2009 3:10 pm
Guitar Hero 5 will give you the opportunity to be Kurt Cobain when the game hits stores on Sept. 1. And you won't reek of unwashed hair and stinky squatter jeans because it'll all be digital. Players will be able to get into character with a Cobain avatar when you play Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Lithium." Uh,...
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Ewan McGregor Mistaken For Cobain's Ghost

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) May 20, 2009 4:32 pm
Ewan McGregor isn't Kurt Cobain. That would be obvious to 99.9 per cent of us, but it was apparently news to a British couple who mistook the Scottish actor for Cobain's ghost shortly after the Nirvana frontman's death in 1994. "This couple came around the corner [in London, England] and they saw me, and at the time I had quite long hair,...
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