December 12, 2012 - The surviving members of Nirvana haven't played together since frontman Kurt Cobain's suicide nearly 20 years ago, but they'll be on stage to back Paul McCartney during tonight's 12-12-12 benefit concert in New York City for Hurricane Sandy victims.
January 13, 2012 - There's a certain sort of aura that surrounds a band at -- but not quite over -- the precipice that separates the merely good from the actually great.
August 29, 2011 - Nirvana's Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl will come together on Sept. 24 for a Sirius XM Radio tribute to the venerable rock band. Novoselic and Grohl's reunion-of-sorts marks the 20th anniversary of the band's groundbreaking major-label debut, "Nevermind."
September 11, 2009 - The use of Kurt Cobain's likeness in the recently released "Guitar Hero 5" game has drawn the ire of his former bandmates and his widow, Courtney Love, despite the fact that the game manufacturers maintain they received licensing rights in a written agreement signed by Love.
March 23, 2009 - Nirvana's three major-label albums--"Nevermind, "In Utero" and "MTV Unplugged"--are being reissued this year on 180-gram, audiophile-quality vinyl for the first time. All three records are scheduled for a 2009 release, with "Nevermind" coming first, according to a Billboard report. However, no official release date has been confirmed.
December 30, 2008 - What does Nirvana have to do with hip-hop? Ask Lil Wayne. In an
interview with Blender Magazine, he admitted the grunge band was a major influence for him musically.
October 25, 2006 - Kurt Cobain leaped past Elvis Presley and into the No. 1 spot of this year's Forbes.com list of Top-Earning Dead Celebrities, pushing Presley out of the top slot for the first time since the list's inception.
October 12, 2006 - The Nirvana concert video "Live! Tonight! Sold Out"--which was first issued on VHS in 1994--will be released for the first time on DVD on Nov. 7.
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