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Welcome to one of the most popular Nirvana websites: NFC.

This unofficial fansite is dedicated to the legendary Seattle rock band Nirvana. The website presents Nirvana fans with an extensive collection of information, pictures, sound clips, music videos, fan-made artwork, news and much more. You can also find a popular discussion board and chatroom where fans can gather to talk about the music that Nirvana created.

Note: This is only a fan site. There is no fan club to join here.

To navigate the website, please use the buttons in the menu above to visit the main sections. For answers to the most common questions about this website and Nirvana, click here.

To contact the webmaster, e-mail:

Total visitors to this page since April, 1997: 19,184,922.

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[2008-12-17] Exclusive: First look at new book - Rough Guide to Nirvana

[2008-11-18] Krist blogs about the 'bass throw' incident at the 1992 MTV VMAs

[2008-11-08] "The Nirvana Reader: 1988 - 1992" - new book to be published

[2008-11-08] NFC Competition: Win the new Cobain Unseen book

[2008-10-30] Universal Music to release NIRVANA Reading Festival 1992 DVD

[2008-09-22] Novoselic leaves Flipper, cancels tour

[2008-09-19] New book about Shannon Hoon and Blind Melon mentions Nirvana

[2008-09-17] New trailer for "Cobain Unseen" book; Facebook page

[2008-09-17] Schoolyard Heroes, Harvey Danger cover Nirvana at Lounge Acts 2008

[2008-08-12] Nirvana nominated in MTV/VH-1 Greatest Video Ever poll

[2008-08-11] Cobain featured in Forever 27 exhibition

[2008-06-26] Flipper to release new record with Krist Novoselic

[2008-06-11] Nirvana featured in Sub Pop oral history by Blender magazine

[2008-03-16] World Exclusive: Converse to launch Kurt Cobain collection

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Nirvana #1 on 'Timeless Top 100’ chart

Over in Belgium, Studio Brussel radio has been running a "Timeless Top 100" chart where Nirvana finished as #1 with Smells Like Teen Spirit. Here's the full Top 10:

10 (10) dEUS - Suds And Soda

9 (8) The Cure - A Forest

8 (7) Radiohead - Creep

7 (9) Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

6 (6) Pearl Jam - Alive

5 (4) Deep Purple - Child In Time

4 (5) Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven

3 (2) Gorky - Mia

2 (3) Metallica - One

1 (1) Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

Nirvana also made it to number one last year.

Thanks to Steven for the news.

Posted or updated: 01-04-2009 @ 3:49 PM (GMT) by RH.

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Nirvana in top 10 on VH-1 chart

This week, VH-1 has been running a 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs countdown. Nirvana finished as #7 with Smells Like Teen Spirit.

Welcome to the Jungle by Guns N' Roses was number one.

Thanks to Samantha for the news.

Posted or updated: 01-04-2009 @ 3:40 PM (GMT) by RH.

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Happy New Year!

It's time to say goodbye to 2008 and welcome 2009!

While an exciting year on many fronts, 2008 hasn't offered much in terms of Nirvana-related events or news. A couple of things worthy of mention include the new Charles R. Cross book, Cobain Unseen, the new book by Danny Goldberg, and the Kurt Cobain-inspired Converse line of shoes that was launched.

As always, thanks to all of you out there for still supporting Nirvana and this website.

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM NFC @ WWW.NIRVANACLUB.COM

Maja, sometime ...

Posted or updated: 12-31-2008 @ 9:50 AM (GMT) by RH.

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Optimus records remix of Come As You Are

Hip hop artist Optimus did an interesting remix of Nirvana's Come As You Are - re-recording the music and creating a mix that includes clips of Cobain talking. A very fascinating take on the song that you can check out on the Optimus MySpace page.

Posted or updated: 12-26-2008 @ 11:15 AM (GMT) by RH.

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Smashed guitar used by Cobain sells for $100,000

From the AP: A smashed guitar from the late grunge rocker Kurt Cobain has been sold to an unidentified private collector for $100,000.

Helen Hall, a broker in England, says it's the second-highest known price for an item of Cobain memorabilia. The seller was punk rocker Sluggo of The Grannies and Hullabaloo.

The sale was confirmed Tuesday by Jacob McMurray, senior curator at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, where the taped-up Fender Mustang guitar in sunburst finish was displayed for a time.

"It's a really cool-looking guitar because it's smashed and held together with duct tape and Kurt Cobain wrote on it," McMurray said.

Sluggo said he traded a working guitar for the smashed one during the first U.S. tour of Cobain's band, Nirvana. McMurray said Nirvana, living hand-to-mouth, was on a tour in New Jersey when Cobain smashed the guitar on stage and went looking for one to play at his next gig.

The swap was made while Cobain was staying at the apartment of Sluggo, who goes only by that name, and Sluggo's girlfriend, McMurray said. He said he hoped the buyer would allow the instrument to return to Seattle for a Cobain exhibit he is preparing for 2010.

"There's not a huge amount of broken Nirvana guitars out there," McMurray said, adding that most amount to "little slivers and fragments."

A news release from Hall said the highest price paid for a piece of Cobain memorabilia was $131,000 at a 2006 auction for his Mosrite Gospel Mark IV guitar.

Posted or updated: 12-26-2008 @ 11:00 AM (GMT) by RH.

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Kurt Cobain replica t-shirts now available!

A website called wornfree.com now offers replicas of three shirts famously worn by Kurt Cobain: the black and white 'grunge is dead' shirt, the 'Hi How Are You' Daniel Johnson shirt and finally the motorbike shirt that Cobain wore in the late 80s.

Check out the shirts here.

Thanks to James for the tip.

Posted or updated: 12-20-2008 @ 8:28 AM (GMT) by RH.

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Exclusive: First look at new book - Rough Guide to Nirvana

Coming out in June next year - The Rough Guide to Nirvana - a new book by Gillian G. Gaar. The book tells the story of the life and afterlife of NIRVANA:

The Story: From Krist Novoselic's early influences, to the last days of Kurt Cobain and the rise of Dave Grohl's Foo Fighters.

The Music: Every album, single, EP and compilation, plus the stray tracks, rarities and solo projects.

The Era: The birth of grunge, the story of Sub Pop, the John Peel radio sessions and Nirvana's contemporaries, from The Melvins to Sonic Youth.

The Background: Nirvana books, movies, cover songs and websites, plus a guided tour of locations key to the Nirvana story.

The book features a foreword by Jack Endino.

Journalist and author Gillian G. Gaar has previously published Nirvana: In Utero and she was a historian and consultant for the box set, With The Lights Out.

Here's an exclusive first look at the book cover:

Other Rough Guides include books on Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd & Jimi Hendrix.

Posted or updated: 12-17-2008 @ 4:49 PM (GMT) by RH.

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Nirvana pack of songs available now for Guitar Hero: World Tour

A Nirvana Track Pack was just released (Dec 11) for the very popular game Guitar Hero: World Tour. Nirvana make their Guitar Hero downloadable content debut with the Nirvana Track Pack. Featuring the final single released by the band, "You Know You're Right," along with "Negative Creep," off the band's debut album Bleach, and the smash hit "Sliver," the Nirvana Track Pack is available now for Guitar Hero: World Tour.

The Nirvana Track Pack will be available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft for 440 Microsoft Points and on the PlayStation Store for the PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system for $5.49. The songs in each Track Pack will be released as downloadable singles for Xbox 360 for 160 Microsoft Points, PLAYSTATION 3 system for $1.99 and Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection for Wii for 200 Wii Points.

Thanks to Kevin.

Posted or updated: 12-13-2008 @ 11:42 AM (GMT) by RH.

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New book: The Death Proclamation of Generation X

A new book came out earlier this year, exploring the attitude of Generation X, including a look at Kurt Cobain:

"Taking a hard, penetrating look at the despondent heart of darkness of the 1990s, The Death Proclamation of Generation X is a probing chronicle of America's thirteenth generation caught between the idealistic Baby Boomers and the well-financed Generation Y. Generation X was scapegoated and dismissed without the chance to prove themselves.

Blending tenets of psychology, sociology, and cultural anthropology, author Maxim Furek offers a unique perspective to the post-modernist discourse by exploring the impact that personalities such as Andrew Wood, Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley, River Phoenix, Marilyn Manson, and Anna Nicole Smith left on that generation. Evaluating the psychological and sociological variables of goth, grunge, and heroin, Furek weaves a dark tapestry of this unique demographic group born between 1965 and 1978.

The Death Proclamation of Generation X pieces together the complexities of Generation X to acknowledge their individuality, honor their existence, and to celebrate their future. They are a group with their own identity of music, attitude, and culture. The resilience of Generation X is but another example of the power of this special collection of people-a group of highly skilled and adaptive individuals."

You can buy the book online here.

Posted or updated: 12-13-2008 @ 11:36 AM (GMT) by RH.

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Update on "The Nirvana Reader 1988-1992"

The NIRVANA Reader: 1988 – 1992 NOW AVAILABLE FOR CHRISTMAS DELIVERY

Compiled and Edited by John D. Luerssen, Book Celebrates Nirvana's (R)evolution

RockReaderBooks Premiere Title Hits Traditional Retailer Shelves January 2009

Few can argue that Nirvana defined rock as we now know it. From its infancy to its meteoric rise and ultimate legacy, The Nirvana Reader: 1988 – 1992 (Rock Reader Books ISBN: 978-0-557-02518-3) celebrates one of the most beloved and sadly missed bands ever in print form.

Collecting rare interviews and long out of print articles, this project was compiled and edited by award winning music journalist John D. Luerssen (Rivers' Edge: The Weezer Story) for his newly launched Rock Reader Books imprint.

Although the book won’t be available for purchase through traditional online sellers and brick and mortar stores until February 2009, fans who were hoping to have it under the tree this holiday season can order directly from the publisher here and have it in 5 to 8 days.

Upstart publisher Rock Reader Books presents fans with the opportunity to revisit the essential and in many cases rarely seen articles that accompanied Kurt Cobain, Chris Novoselic and Dave Grohl on their ascent from an underground trio to the self-professed 'Flower Sniffin’, Kitty Pettin’, Baby Kissin’ Corporate Rock Whores', and, ultimately, the icons that defined modern rock & roll.

'This is unlike any Nirvana book you’ve ever read,' says Luerssen. 'It's funny, it's fucked up, and it weaves the story of Nirvana together in their own words as they ascend from the outhouse to the penthouse.' Fanzines, radio interviews, defunct British mags and college papers all served as ideal sources of information and amusement in the collection of this material.

Adds Luerssen, 'If I have to cite my single favorite Kurt quote in the book it’s this one:

'If it was up to me, I'd get more oil tanker drivers drunk. I don’t value music much. I like the Beatles, but I hate Paul McCartney. I like Led Zeppelin, but I hate Robert Plant. I like the Who, but I hate Roger Daltrey.' "

Posted or updated: 12-07-2008 @ 10:04 AM (GMT) by RH.

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