My fourteen-year-old brother is going through the Nirvana phase of his “I want to be a rock star, so I will listen to everything ever recorded rather than practice my instrument” ambitions. So he, at least, will probably be thrilled to hear that Kurt Cobain has taken over Elvis’ place as the US’ top-earning dead guy [bbc].

This has happened because poor little Courtney Love has sold a quarter of her burdensome Nirvana stake to Larry Mestel [bbc]. Love “has reassured fans that although the sale would take Nirvana where they’d “never been before”, the way their music was used would remain “tasteful”.” (Yeah, that’s just too easy of a shot to take.)