Within the slew of alternative bands that burst onto the scene in the early 90s, there was something special about Nirvana.

Nirvana was a rock band that formed in Washington in 1987. But nearly 40 years later, some people still don't know what the band's name means.

"William doesn't dig, he Burroughs," Kurt Cobain once said when descriibing one of his literary heroes, William S. Burroughs.

“John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down,” Cobain told Rolling Stone in January 1994, three months before his death by suicide. “I don’t know who wrote what parts of what ...

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To mark the 30th anniversary of Cobain’s death, Yahoo Entertainment gathered memories of the Nirvana frontman. Share what Kurt Cobain meant to you in 1994 — and what he still means to you ...

It’s imbued with this urgency of death. Every day is heightened ... but you know they cost $5,000." “Kurt Cobain was a perfect-looking man,” he continues. “It’s the classic thing ...

Kurt Cobain’s influence went beyond just the music he created with Nirvana. He also put the masses on to some of his own favorite artists. One particular document from his journals has been inst ...