| Cobain At 40 |
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This week — on Tuesday the 20th, to be exact — Kurt Cobain would have turned 40. The obvious next thought is: What would he be doing if he were alive to celebrate it? It's a difficult thing to imagine, as is pretty much anything involving Cobain in a world that's changed so much since he left it. Because like many artists before him — Jimi Hendrix comes to mind — Cobain is forever linked to a specific era: the heady and hopeful early 1990s, when the minority was the majority and the guitar was still seen as a viable instrument for social change. And since he took his life in April 1994, the art form Cobain most excelled in — rock — has become nearly as fractious as the society it exists in. Erudite artists gave way to nü-metal, emo, punk-pop ... while you hear plenty of power chords and gravelly voices, some might argue that it's hard to find the spirit of Nirvana in any of it. Read More here: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1553098/20070222/nirvana.jhtml Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites          Add your comment
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