Music has a way of creating powerful signposts in people’s lives.

If you were born during a certain time, you’ll remember the first time you heard the White Album. You also remember where you were when you heard Lennon had been shot. For the my generation, the moments are tied to first hearing “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and what you were doing on April 8, 1994.

(For the record, I first heard it listening to CFNY on a crappy radio while working a minimum wage job and two-and-half years later was drinking Swedish coffee with a university roommate.)

Nirvana’s Nevermind is 10 years old this month and CANOE has re-released a two-part, 1993 interview with Kurt Cobain by John Sakamoto. It’s strange to read the piece now, the article feels at once relevant and out of context — not only did the Web as a mass medium not yet exist, but the word “alternative” still meant something.