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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the mid-'80s Kurt Cobain put an ad in The Rocket looking for a drummer for his band. The internet may have contributed to the rocket's demise, but today it's helping bring it back, with the ...

Editor's note: This was originally published in 2014. Time references at the top of the story have been updated, but the memories below were shared in 2014. With the death of Kurt Cobain 25 years ...

Once upon a time, when Seattle was at the epicenter of the global grunge music phenomenon, there was a scrappy little paper called The Rocket covering it all, from a front row seat. Until now, the ...

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, an instrumental figure in the Seattle music scene who wrote the definitive 2001 biography of Kurt Cobain, has died at age 67. Charles R. Cross, Kurt Cobain Biographer and Rocket ...