'He shouldn’t be defined by his death': New Kurt Cobain book looks beyond tortured artist

'He shouldn’t be defined by his death': New Kurt Cobain book looks beyond tortured artist

Kurt Cobain: Forever in Bloom has been revised and reworked ahead of the 35th anniversary of Nirvana’s landmark album Nevermind.

The Tortured Artist Conundrum

In thinking of the late Kurt Cobain (the most notable and, for the sake of this article, recognizable example), we often tell ourselves that the music preceded the legacy. This is true on a broader, more external level, at least. The mythos of Nirvana, and the grunge scene at large, was widely discernible culturally far...