Cobain emptied his tormented soul onto paper and into songs, songs of raw anguish and bizarre poetry that he soon performed with bands whose membership changed with some frequency.

It's almost a week before the 20th anniversary of Kurt Cobain 's death and the Seattle Police Department has just released 35 never-before-seen photos from the investigation. The pictures were taken ...

If you lived in Seattle during the 1980s and 1990s, you probably recall seeing at coffee shops, bars and nightclubs throughout the city stacks of free issues of “The Rocket” — an influential magazine ...

Charles R. Cross, a Seattle music writer who edited The Rocket, a local rock bible, during the city’s grunge-era flowering in the 1990s, and who wrote acclaimed biographies of two of the city ...

Charles R. Cross, a prolific music journalist known for his definitive biography of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and his long tenure as editor of Seattle’s alternative weekly The Rocket, died on ...

He also edited the Seattle-based music magazine “The Rocket,” an old printed paper that functioned in that pre-internet utopia like mortar between the bricks of the rapidly towering music ...

In 1986, Cross was named editor of the Rocket, a weekly newspaper in Seattle, just as that city’s music scene was beginning to attract national attention; he went on to edit the paper through ...

Charles R. Cross, an instrumental figure in the Seattle music scene who wrote the definitive 2001 biography of Kurt Cobain, “Heavier than Heaven,” has died at age 67, his family confirmed on ...

Charles R. Cross, a Seattle-based music journalist who edited the city’s preeminent alt-weekly, the Rocket, and penned bestselling biographies of Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix and other major rock ...

Charles R. Cross, a Seattle-based music journalist who edited the city’s preeminent alt-weekly, the Rocket, and penned bestselling biographies of Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix and other major rock ...