Nirvana at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards rehearsals (photo: Jeff Kravitz / FilmMagic via Getty Images). Picasso once famously said that good artists borrow and great artists steal—though if we ...

The problem with writing about Nirvana is that many people — rock critics, culture pundits, filmmakers, disc jockeys, your college roommate, every rando on social media — have already said pretty much ...

Picasso once famously said that good artists borrow and great artists steal—though if we assume he was following his own motto, it’s highly unlikely the quote was even his to begin with. A similar ...

Thirty years ago, Nirvana’s final act began with the September 1993 release of In Utero. Recorded with Steve Albini—the engineer behind Pixies’ Surfer Rosa—In Utero sounded as vital and twitchy as an ...

The album, which features the band’s biggest hit, “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” hit No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 upon its release. For as buzzy and strong-willed as it was, it was also vulnerable, sad, ...