NME — Nirvana's back catalogue is raking in far less licensing money than predicted, it has emerged. more info

All About Jazz — From the final article by Gene Stout, Seattle PI Music Critic: My time on the music beat — from 1983 to the present — has been a wild ride, with hundreds of interviews with some pretty famous people and hundreds of concert reviews. It h... more info

Rolling Stone — Let’s take a trip back to 1989 Seattle with Soundgarden. Trent Reznor might argue that the above video is why he felt “embarrassed” after hearing Chris Cornell’s new, Timbaland-produced Scream, as once upon a time Cornell’s Soundgarden were... more info

Music News Net — MUSIC NEWS - The cult US rockers, the Pixies have agreed to be one of the headline acts at the Isle of Wight musical festival this summer, organizers announced today. The indie group, known for a style that inspired Nirvana... more info

Guardian Music — The trend for bands offering glorified bootlegs of their own gigs ignores why we go in the first place – to construct our own idealised version of a great live experienceFranz Ferdinand are the latest in an increasingly long line of bands offe... more info

Rolling Stone — • U2’s Best by the Bands That Love Them • American Idol Celebrates Jackson Top stories from the last three days: • Michael Jackson Announces O2 Dates • No More Unreleased Nirvana, Per Novoselic • Freaks, Geeks, Paul Rudd: Apatow’s Unive... more info

XFM.co.uk — The Nirvana bassist, in a long and incredibly frank interview, has said that he continuously warned Kurt Cobain to stay away from heroin. more info

Idolator — Despite the fact that today's youth seem nonplussed about the band and its history, there are still plenty of Nirvanaphiles, young and old alike, who were holding out hope for a Makaveli (or even Dick's Picks) style backlog of unreleased tunes. Bassi... more info

Idolator — Hey, it's a list! Let's argue about it? Esquire has published an "unranked, incomplete, yet highly tasteful and informative" rundown of 75 long-players that "every man should own" with the usual bite-sized commentary the magazine devotes to these sor... more info

Music Mule — What? Televised Crimewave One of my new bands of 2009 so far, Televised Crimewave, plays this free ‘No Fiction’ club night. The club is owned by Vince Powers the guy who set up Mean Fiddler and Benicassim so he should know his stuff if y... more info