Interviews and Articles
Introduction: The following is a collection of many
articles + interviews sourced from magazines, newspapers, online
news sites, fan contributions and other places.
The band did a number of interviews with the press during their career. A selection of those can be found
here. A lot of articles were added in November 2003 thanks to Mike Ziegler, Rob Holmes and their old website "The Happening".
This section presents interesting interviews with the band members from the very beginning of Nirvana's career
up until the end in '94. Read all the famous (and infamous) Cobain myths here and learn new facts about Nirvana.
Interviews/articles about Nirvana and Kurt Cobain
(ordered by date of publication in mm/dd/yy format)
09/88 Backlash
One of the first ever articles about Nirvana
03/18/89 Melody Maker
Seattle: Rock City
05/05/89 The Univ. Of WA
Article about Nirvana in the early years
06/89 Flipside
Very early Nirvana interview
10/89 Unknown
Nirvana interview
10/21/89 SOUNDS
Natural descendants of Mudhoney and Dinosaur Jr, Nirvana are a high energy explo ...
10/21/89 Melody Maker
Early Nirvana interview
11/89 Unknown
Early Nirvana interview
12/89 The Rocket
Early Nirvana interview
12/89 Pulse!
Heavy Meditation
01/90 Metal Forces
Carl Williams Investigates America's Latest Import, Nirvana
03/03/90 Melody Maker
Nirvana concert review
03/17/90 Melody Maker
This was a tour not for the faint-hearted. Everett True witness the chaos & carn ...
04/27/90 91.9 WOZQ
Radio interview with Kurt Cobain
10/90 Sounds
If any of the US underground bands are likely to break through into the mainstre ...
11/90 PUSH Interview
Early Nirvana interview
12/15/90 Melody Maker
Early Nirvana interview
03/91 Backlash
Kurt Cobain interview
04/06/91 SOUNDS
Nirvana concert review
06/91 Bleach Bums
It's June 1991, mere months before the revolution, and Kurt Cobain is wrestling ...
08/91 New Music Express
Interview with Krist and Kurt
08/22/91 Rockview
Interview with Nirvana
08/24/91 Kerrang
Kurt Cobain interview
09/14/91 Melody Maker
Nirvana interview
09/91 M.E.A.T.
Music styles
11/02/91 Melody Maker
Nirvana's European tour
11/10/91 ROCK HARD
Nirvana interview
11/23/91 Musical Express
Suddenly everyone wants a piece of NIRVANA, the most vital rock band of the mome ...
11/26/91 Village Voice
Nirvana's on MTV and frontman Kurt Cobain's wearing a dress, a floor-length yell ...
12/91 New Route
Nirvana interview
01/92 Spin
Nirvana interview
01/92 Musician
Nirvana interview
01/92 Guitar World
Kurt Cobain tries to explain why Nirvana, third-hand guitars and all, is suddenl ...
01/10/92 BAM
Nirvana's impact
01/23/92 Rolling Stone
Aftergiving birth to the surprise hit of the year, the guys from Seattle fight t ...
01/25/92 Billboard
Nirvana hits #1 on the Billboard chart
01/25/92 Melody Maker
Nirvana fever is sweeping America... which is bad news for their fans over here.
01/92 Option
Punk Philosophers Nirvana
02/01/92 Billboard
Most Top 40 Outlets Reserve Track For Nighttime Only
02/08/92 Kerrang
'Nevermind' has been at Number One on the Kerrang! Album Chart for a month
02/92 Guitar Player
It's Saturday night at San Francisco's Warfield Theater, and an impatient crowd ...
02/92 RIP
Nirvana has struck a chord. It may be out of tune, but it's universal. It is lou ...
02/92 Details
Nirvana interview
02/92 Down Under '92
Interview with Krist Novoselic
02/20/92 Rolling Stone
Nirvana concert review
04/92 Peace
Nirvana interview from 1990
04/92 Sassy
Interview with Kurt and Courtney
04/92 SPIN
It's 1992... grunge goes overground and anarchy comes to the charts.
04/92 E.Q.
Capturing the high-intensity sound of Nirvana meant reevaluating the strengths a ...
04/16/92 Rolling Stone
Inside the Heart and Mind of Kurt Cobain.
05/92 Hit Parader
Seattle Thrashers Reach Platinum Paradise With Nevermind
05/92 Flipside
Flipside's Cobain interview
05/31/92 Circus
Nivana on tour
06/92 RIP
Nirvana interview
07/04/92 Melody Maker
Nirvana Star Rushed to Hospital With "Mystery Stomach Bug"
07/18/92 Melody Maker
Interview with Kurt Cobain
07/25/92 Melody Maker
Kurt going solo rumours ...
07/25/92 Melody Maker
In the second part of his exclusive NIRVANA interview, Everett True meets the ba ...
07/25/92 Melody Maker
Nirvana: Isle of Calf Festival, Oslo; Sjohistoriska Museum, Stockholm
08/15/92 Melody Maker
Nirvana are being sued by Killing Joke
08/29/92 Melody Maker
Kurt Cobain of Nirvana talks about the records that changed his life.
08/29/92 New Music Express
As "Nevermind" zoomed past Bono & Jacko, so the rumours started: Kurt Is Dead .. ...
09/92 Vanity Fair
Are Courtney Love, lead diva of the postpunk band Hole, and her husband, Nirvana ...
09/05/92 Melody Maker
Kurt and Courtney's daughter taken away
09/21/92 Los Angeles Times
Kurt speaks of his drug use and more
10/92 Monk Magazine
Interview with Kurt Cobain
10/29/92 Rolling Stone
Nirvana at the VMA's ...
12/92 Spin
Kurt and Courtney interview
12/92 Spin
Nirvana is named Artist of the Year
12/04/92 Entertainment W
Somebody has written the unauthorized story of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love. Th ...
12/12/92 Melody Maker
Kurt Cobain explains why wearing dresses can be cool.
01/07/93 Rolling Stone
After a successful European summer tour and a sold-out show at the mammoth 45,00 ...
01/23/93 Billboard
'Real' Follow-Up Discs Are Due In Spring
01/30/93 Melody Maker
Cobain blows his top at scandals and obsessions
02/93 The Advocate
Kurt Cobain interview
04/01/93 Rolling Stone
It's the Jesus and Nirvana Chain!
04/09/93 Melody Maker
Interview with Kurt Cobain
04/24/93 Melody Maker
Last week, Nirvana, L7, The Disposable Hereos Of Hiphoprisy and The Breeders sta ...
06/93 Guitar Magazine
Nirvana's music
06/24/93 Rolling Stone
A media stink erupts over the band's new album - and who's in charge.
07/22/93 Howl:An Interview
A lenghty Kurt Cobain interview
07/24/93 NME
Goodybe 'Teen Spirit', hello to the strange, anxious, visceral realm of 'In Uter ...
08/07/93 Kerrang
Nirvana interview
08/21/93 Melody Maker
At bloody last! After months of speculation, controversy, title-changes, track-s ...
08/21/93 Melody Maker
This week: Nirvana's Kurt Cobain
08/28/93 Melody Maker
With NIRVANA’s long-awaited ‘In Utero’ due for imminent release, The Stud Brothe ...
09/04/93 OOR Magazine
Nirvana interview
09/93 US
Nirvana and Pearl Jam plunged into the mainstream with their albums ‘Nevermind’ ...
09/19/93 Atlanta Journal
Kurt Cobain interview
10/93 Impact
A worldwide cacophony of loud guitar music, toques and plaid shirts on the runaw ...
10/93 Alternative Press
Go ahead. Hate this band, it’s the cool thing to do. The punk rockers hate them ...
10/93 SPIN
Remarkable. Unprecedented. Phenomenal. The stupefying success of Nirvana left a ...
10/93 Q
On the eve of the release of In Utero, the hungrily anticipated successor to the ...
10/93 Musician
The battles behind Nirvana's new album
10/93 Guitar World
In July of 1993, Kurt Cobain gave a dramatically candid interview to respected B ...
10/18/93 MTV Interview
Nirvana interview
10/24/93 Chicago Tribune
Review of Nirvana at the Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL October 23 1993
10/25/93 Rolling Stone
Kurt Cobain interview
11/93 Details
It took two weeks for Nirvana to record In Utero, but two years before they coul ...
11/11/93 Rolling Stone
Wal-Mart censored In Utero
11/14/93 N.Y. Times
Concert review
11/29/93 Kerrang
Interview with Kurt Cobain on tour
11/30/93 Circus
Kurt Cobain interview
12/25/93 Melody Maker
For a concert spectacular to be broadcast worldwide on New Year's Eve, MTV went ...
01/04/94 Nardwuar
Interview with Nirvana in Canada
01/27/94 Rolling Stone
Our man in Nirvana rages on (and on) about stardom, fatherhood, his feud with Pe ...
01/31/94 Circus Magazine
An opening night report from Phoenix, Arizona
02/94 RIP
Stepping offstage at Hollywood's Club Lingerie, Kurt Cobain looks like he's just ...
02/27/94 Croatian TV
TV interview with Krist
03/94 Hit Parader
Will success spoil Nirvana? That seems to be the question filling more and more ...
04/10/94 Port Orchard
Kurt's uncle speaks about Kurt
04/18/94 Newsweek
Article on Kurt Cobain's passing
04/18/94 Time
Kurt Cobain was the dour, brilliant leader of Nirvana, the multiplatinum grunge ...
04/27/94 The Rocket
When Kurt Cobain committed suicide recently, I found myself, like everyone else ...
Fall 94 Fender Frontline
One of the last interviews Kurt Cobain did
03/95 Guitar World
A behind-the-scenes look at Nirvana's brilliant performance on MTV's Unplugged
03/95 The Rocket
Great albums are born, they are not made. Music that lasts over time requires no ...
04/05/95 The Rocket
Kurt Cobain's Year of Rest Without Peace
1996 Guitar World
The evolution of Nirvana, and how they came to record Nevermind-the great radio- ...
10/96 Guitar World
A sneak preview of Nirvana's upcoming live album
02/14/97 Goldmine
A comprehensive article about Nirvana's recordings, sessions and other projects
04/99 Circus
Biographies of Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl
05/99 Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone Magazine names Kurt Cobain as the best artist of the 90s
06/28/99 Newsweek
Article about the impact of Nirvana's Nevermind album
09/99 Spin Magazine
Article about Nirvana's Nevermind album
10/99 Rolling Stone
Article with Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic interviews
12/07/00 Rolling Stone
Article about Smells Like Teen Spirit
05/2004 Mojo
Article about You Know You're Right and the final Nirvana recording session. By Gillian G. Gaar.
Nevermind: It's an interview
The interview officially released on CD by Geffen/DGC
Various newspaper articles about Cobain from 1994
AP press releases from March and April, 1994
Larry Smith - Kurt's uncle by marriage - shares stories
Miscellaneous articles/interviews related to Nirvana
(ordered by date of publication in mm/dd/yy format)
05/85 Klipsun Magazine
Article about one of former Nirvana drummer Chad Channing's first bands, Color M ...
Fall 1994 Spin
Article about Courtney Love dealing with the passing of her husband
05/21/94 Melody Maker
An Interview With Eddie Vedder Of Pearl Jam. It Is Mainly About His Reaction To ...
09/08/99 MTV
The following is a transcript of an interview with Courtney Love, broadcast Sept ...
09/26/94 Newsweek
Interview with Michael Stipe of R.E.M. about Nirvana and Kurt Cobain
11/04/94 Entertainment Weekly
FAME BEGETS FAME: That's one lesson Kurt Cobain took pleasure in teaching
12/94 Spin
Article about Kurt Cobain
08/16/95 RAW Magazine
A brief Courtney Love biography
01/96 Playboy Magazine
Courtney wants to go mass market, but can pop's punk princess shelve her anger a ...
02/96 Esquire
Crisscrossing the country with Courtney Love and the ashes of the deceased (whic ...
03/24/97 Barbara Walters interview with Courtney Love
Barbara Walters' infamous interview with Courtney Love from TV
Addicted to Noise
Thousands watch in awe as Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl and Pat Smear were joined by ...
02/26/98 San Mateo Times
Documentary banned at Sundance Film Festival will premiere at Roxie Friday
02/27/98 San Mateo Times
Review of 'Kurt and Courtney' documentary
08/17/98 Seattle Times
Article about Kurt's cousin, Bev Cobain
03/99 Guitar World
The grunge equation of success = death sealed the fate of guitar music in the Ni ...
02/00 FHM Magazine
The former Nirvana drummer - now Foo Fighters frontman - on weapons, hygiene and ...
Various articles and documents posted in the news section
Michael Azerrad statement about 'Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana'
Article about Courtney's lawsuits. html | word
"When there's Love, there's war". Article about the lawsuits
'Live Through This' (book) press clippings
'Live Through This' (book) press release
The NFC Essay. Lengthy essay about the life at the discussion board
Press release for the Nirvana photo book Winterlong
Article about the Experience Music Project museum in Seattle
A personal account from a person who visited the EMP museum
'Nirvana - A Retrospective'. Press release about a 1999 photo exhibit
Article about the 12/1999 riots in Seattle over the WTO summit
Dave Grohl interview about Kurt, Nirvana and more
Press release for the Kurt Cobain biography 'Heavier Than Heaven'
List of items that Krist Novoselic sold in an online garage sale
A touching story about Kurt Cobain's influence
'The Vigil' (movie) press release
'The Vigil' (movie) production notes
'The Vigil' (movie) reviews
'The Vigil' (movie) rogers video press release
Review of "Dave Grohl - Foo Fighters, Nirvana & other misadventures"
Review of "Of Grunge And Government - Let's Fix This Broken Democracy!"
Review of "Nirvana: The Chosen Rejects"
Eyes Adrift biography (Krist Novoselic's former band)
Story from BBC radio winner Daniel Sasto's trip to Seattle
Story from Eryn Mulloy about her trip to Seattle for the 10th KC anniversary
Story from the Aberdeen Daily Word, April 2004
Story from the Aberdeen Daily Word, May 2004
Press release for new Charles Peterson photo book