With the lead single “Smells Like Teen Spirit” from their 1991 album Nevermind, Nirvana exploded into the mainstream, bringing along with it a subgenre of alternative rock called grunge. Nirvana’s brief run ended with the death of Cobain in April of 1994, but the band’s popularity expanded in the years that followed. Music Connection magazine, dated November–December 1991, featuring Nirvana on the cover, signed on the cover in black felt tip, “Kurdt,” and “David,” adding a small heart next to his name. In very good condition, with scattered creases and edge tears to front cover and an address label affixed to left edge of front cover. Consignor notes she was working for Dean Markley Strings at the time, and received tickets and backstage passes to a concert at the intimate Fox Theatre in Portland, Oregon, at the end of October 1991, just as the band had returned from a European tour. She was intending to meet the band to bring them some strings for their instruments, and coincidentally received the magazine in the mail the day of the show and brought it with her to be signed. RR Auction COA.
