Billy Corgan says he ‘lost his greatest opponent’ when Kurt Cobain died

The singer revealed in the interview that even though both Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana often went toe-to-toe with each other during the 1990s, he still respected the late Nirvana frontman.

Smashing Pumpkins singer Billy Corgan revealed Monday that the death of Kurt Cobain in 1994 left him extremely upset because he felt like he had “lost his greatest opponent.” “When Kurt died, I cried because […]

Steve Earle and City Winery Outline 8th Annual John Henry’s Friends Benefit Concert with David Byrne, Kurt Vile and More

Steve Earle and City Winery Outline 8th Annual John Henry's Friends Benefit Concert with David Byrne, Kurt Vile and More

Steve Earle and City Winery have delivered details regarding the 8th annual John Henry’s Friends benefit concert, slated to take place on May 15 at Town Hall in New York. The folks behind the event […]

‘If masterpiece means anything, it means Cat’s Cradle’: the Kurt Vonnegut novels everyone should read | Books

Ron Leibman and Michael Sacks in the 1972 film adaptation of Slaughterhouse-Five

The books of Kurt Vonnegut, who was born 100 years ago this Friday, are funny, unflinching, soft-hearted, stark, imaginative and approachable – and just as relevant now as when he published his debut novel 70 […]

‘Kurt Cobain was a walking paradox’: inside the opera about the star’s final days | Opera

‘He held so many contradictions within himself’… Cobain in 1994.

The stage is dimly lit. Through the gloom, a figure emerges, muttering incomprehensibly. From a distance, the figure vaguely resembles Kurt Cobain – ragged clothes, dyed dirty-blond hair – a resemblance that increases when they […]