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"Let’s not be grunge. Let’s be more like the Beach Boys. But loud." How Weezer's Rivers Cuomo wrote the perfect power-pop song but almost shelved it

Producer Ric Ocasek convinced the Weezer frontman to include the song Buddy Holly on the band's debut album

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10 cruelly over-looked alt. rock albums from 1996 that should have been massive in a fair and just world

Thirty years on, a salute to 10 brilliant records from 1996 that deserved better

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"Music is always interesting when no one knows where the hell it came from." Steve Coogan on the game-changing impact of Nirvana and The Smiths, and why he loves both bands

"When Nirvana released Nevermind, that just redefined everything"

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When Aerosmith's Steven Tyler offered to help Kurt Cobain kick heroin, the response from Nirvana's frontman was savage

Aerosmith's Steven Tyler offered to help Kurt Cobain kick his habit, got verbally slapped down

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Revisiting the seven weeks in 1991 that changed music history forever

The 80s weren’t dead and the 90s hadn’t really begun. This is the story of how seven weeks of summer in 1991 belonged to rock (and not just grunge)

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“We started talking about Black Sabbath, and Buzz goes, ‘You know they did this thing called drop D.’ We said, ‘What’s that?’” Kim Thayil on how Soundgarden took rock guitar into the superunknown – and the unfinished Chris Cornell tapes

With the Soundgarden guitarist‘s memoir, A Screaming Life, out now, he unpacks the story behind one of the most influential rock bands of the ’90s

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"By the time you get to the end, it's like, Okay, that's a classic." Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan recalls the first time he heard Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit

The night that Butch Vig played Billy Corgan an unreleased cassette of Nirvana's Nevermind album

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“That is the most ‘Seattle’ riff I’ve ever heard in my life”: The recording of Nirvana's Bleach – and the band's “ultimate grunge song”

Recorded in four sessions in December 1988 for just $606.17, Bleach would signal the primal quality and rawness that came to define the grunge movement

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How the band David Bowie called “a psychotic Beatles”made the '80s weirdest and most influential alternative rock album

Nirvana's Kurt Cobain admitted it, but pretty much every single alt. rock band has 'borrowed' from Pixies' 1988 masterpiece Surfer Rosa

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“Of any song that I've ever written, it's most blatantly about my time in Nirvana.” The story behind the Foo Fighters song Dave Grohl wrote about his Nirvana bandmates while crashing on Kurt Cobain's couch

Dave Grohl's tender tribute to Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain

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"I have to get people to slap me across the face in case it’s all just been a dream." For the first nine years of their career, No Doubt were seen as a joke. But when they released Tragic Kingdom, no-one was laughing at them anymore

An archive interview with No Doubt from 1997, as the world started falling at their feet

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Watch Dave Grohl join Sepultura onstage in Los Angeles to jam on a 90s classic

The Foo Fighters frontman joined the Sepultura at the Wiltern Theater in LA to add drums on Kaiowas

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"Michael Jackson was huge. Whitney Houston was huge. Michael Bolton was huge. There was no place for us in that." Nirvana finished making Nevermind 35 years ago. Here's what Dave Grohl remembers from the 16-day session that changed rock forever

Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl completed recording their iconic album Nevermind on May 28, 1991

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The 30 greatest Nirvana songs ever, and the stories behind them

The very best of the best of Nirvana

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"I remember when I first heard Nevermind and I was like, 'OK, it's on'." Radiohead's Thom Yorke recalls the moment he realised Nirvana were going to change the world

Radiohead frontman on getting excited about new music and not obsessing over the past

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"There’s no magic formula at work here –this is an album full of simple but glorious pop-rock songs." How alt. rock godhead Bob Mould finally struck gold with Sugar's Copper Blue

Released in 1992, Sugar's debut album Copper Blue gave former Hüsker Dü man Bob Mould the commercial success he so richly deserved

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“We pulled out chainsaws and tore our guitars apart. I had a shotgun with blanks in it, and I was shooting it inside the Palladium”: Inside the chaotic birth of prog metal provocateurs Tool

They’ve sold millions of albums, won four Grammys and inspired legions of copycats, but this is where the legend of Tool kicked off

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"For me to be playing with the person who is responsible for me being here right now was about the most profound, full-circle moment of my entire life." How Dave Grohl's love letter to a LA recording studio beautifully captured the magic of music

Sound City is an open-hearted celebration of music and those who make it

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"He's stabbed to death by a monochrome clown, who promptly blows himself up." My Chemical Romance headline Thursday night of Sonic Temple with a stunning show for the ages

The emo legends underscore why they're the most important rock band since Nirvana

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"We never fit into any scene or genre, ever, so all our friends are weirdos." What happened when we took Skindred record shopping in Newport

Genre-smashing Welsh rockers Skindred undertake Classic Rock's £50 vinyl challenge

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“I was like, ‘God, what do I do? If I sit behind the drums, it makes me sad. If I listen to music, it makes me sad’”: Dave Grohl on life in the aftermath of Kurt Cobain's death – and how his switch to guitar and songwriting marked a new chapter

Fresh from the release of Foo Fighters' 12th album, Grohl has looked back on the origins of the multi-decade project that stemmed from intense grief

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Dave Grohl says eerie Irish ‘sign’ from the late Kurt Cobain pushed him back into music

Dave Grohl says a chance meeting with a fan in a Kurt Cobain T‑shirt convinced him not to quit music.

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Foo Fighters star Dave Grohl reveals why he nearly quit making music

Dave Grohl almost walked away from the music business in the mid-90s.

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“These songs are played a lot. They’re often not played well”: Top 10 riffs played in-store at Guitar Center revealed

And Stairway To Heaven is conspicuous by its absence

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“These songs are played a lot. They’re often not played well”: Guitar Center reveals the 10 most-played guitar riffs in its stores – and no, Stairway to Heaven isn’t one of them

CEO Gabe Dalporto surveyed GC staff to discover the riffs that torment them on a daily basis – but some surprisingly big names don’t get a look-in

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