Tobi Vail (‘Kurt smells like Teen Spirit’), a reference ... In fact, so similar was its quiet/loud dynamic that Cobain initially shied away from including it on Nevermind.

In August 1990, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and Bikini Kill vocalist Kathleen ... Teen Spirit being the deodorant brand favoured by his girlfriend Tobi Vail, Hanna's Bikini Kill bandmate.

Helen Mirren and Kurt Cobain don’t seem to have ever crossed paths in any significant way before the Nirvana guitarist’s death in 1994. And yet, for some strange reason, the legendary actress ...

Helen Mirren has a relatively unique perspective on how she thinks Kurt Cobain would navigate the world if he hadn’t died in the 1990s. During an interview with Evening Standard’s Brave New ...

This particular track was penned about Tobi Vail of Bikini Kill, who Cobain dated before inevitably getting with Courtney Love. Nirvana blew up virtually overnight, and Cobain wasn’t exactly ...

Throughout the book, there are some really interesting anecdotes about your friendship with Kurt Cobain of Nirvana ... it had nothing to do with my family, Tobi Vail, who he was dating at the ...

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The only child of late rock icon Kurt Cobain and rocker Courtney Love welcomes her first baby with husband Riley Hawk, the eldest son of skateboarding legend Tony Hawk. Frances Bean Cobain ...

Thanks to the wholly unexpected, almost unprecedented overnight success of his band, Nirvana, Kurt Cobain became, not only the reluctant figurehead for the 1990s alternative rock movement ...

Although Kurt Cobain was only 27 when he died, he accomplished a lot in his few years by becoming a generational music icon as the leader of Nirvana. Still, given that he died in 1994, he missed ...

Frances Bean Cobain is an American visual artist, model and producer. She is the daughter of the late Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love. In 2010, Cobain made her art gallery debut. Her second gallery ...

While reflecting on her own coming of age, Helen Mirren referenced Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain's death. During an interview with Evening Standard's "Brave New World" podcast, the actress ...