If people don't go to these venues then they will be unsustainable in the long run. If smaller venues go then it will make it almost impossible for budding musicians to get their first gig. What will happen then? Will we be left with a situation where acts have to audition for talent shows to get their break? It's a depressing thought.

Friday marks the 19th anniversary of the death of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. Cobain took his own life on April 5, 1994, leaving behind daughter...

If you need to gather a bunch of A-list musical luminaries together to make a documentary film AND record a one-off album, it probably helps to be...

If you need to gather a bunch of A-list musical luminaries together to make a documentary film AND record a one-off album, it probably helps to be...

Had he lived, today would have been Kurt Cobain’s 46th birthday. It’s hard to imagine the Nirvana frontman as a middle-aged man, but there’s...

Foo Fighters rocker Dave Grohl has formed a mystery supergroup which will make its debut at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah later this month. Th...

Sir Paul McCartney turned grunge rocker on Wednesday night as he fronted a reunited Nirvana with drummer Dave Grohl and bassist Krist Novoselic during...

Sir Paul McCartney is to fill in for Kurt Cobain as the surviving members of Nirvana reunite at the Superstorm Sandy benefit in New York on Wednesday....

A couple of weeks ago I applied for a job as a writer for an online journal. I was asked to submit some writing samples and then write 50 words about my favourite magazine. That last bit really bugged me, but hey ho. This is what I wrote.

Rocker Dave Grohl has downplayed speculation his band Foo Fighters are set to take a break from the spotlight following his comments at Britain's Read...

Rock’s great white widow Courtney Love has reacted to Lana Del Rey’s cover of Heart-Shaped Box by publicly informing the world it is in fact a dit...

It's 18 years since his death, but Kurt Cobain continues to live on in the hearts and ears of millions. The Nirvana frontman, who took his own lif...

Kurt Cobain passed 18 years ago and like when John Lennon passed, I was genuinely devastated. I was also in bad shape at that point. I ran into Kurt on a few occasions with Teenage Fanclub when they toured together in 1992/93. It was around that time I first met Courtney Love, Kurt's then partner. What's sad is he had really only just begun in music. I think some people just handle that level of attention better than others, and I think Kurt found it not just difficult, but impossible.

Here we are, at the start of the final year of our lives. Now, whilst the heavens begin to open, traffic lights start to go rogue, and Satan ascends the fire laden stairway, a plethora of good music is set to be released, ready to soundtrack our final moments.

Tonight, the Lemonheads will play their best-loved and most successful album It's A Shame About Ray, front to back in the order it was recorded, to yet another sell-out crowd of 30-something males at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire.

All I want for Christmas is this: I want you to buy one piece of music over the Christmas week, but I want it to be a piece of music that you actually want to own and listen to. If it is by whoever wins X Factor, that's fine; I just probably won't send you a present. But if it's Smells Like Teen Spirit, you don't even get a card.