Music industry veteran Danny Goldberg has touched upon genius for more than four decades. From doing PR for Led Zeppelin, running Atlantic Records, Mercury Records and Warner Bros. Records, launching Stevie Nicks' solo career and managing Kurt Cobain and Nirvana, among countless others, Goldberg's storied business trials and triumphs have become the stuff of legend. In his memoir, 'Bumping Into Geniuses: My Life Inside the Rock and Roll Business,' Goldberg recounts his personal graces with artists like Patti Smith, Warren Zevon, Bruce Springsteen, Kiss, Hole and more. In the excerpt below, Goldberg discusses his relationship with Cobain just as Nirvana was signing to Geffen for the release of 'Nevermind.' Cobain met Courtney Love soon thereafter, and the two were married in a small ceremony in Waikiki. While Cobain claimed to have never been happier than in his marriage, his drug use was spiraling out of control.

My relationship with Kurt Cobain was the most important of my career and had many contradictory levels. I was his manager, where I did a decent job, and his friend, where I failed. I saw him as a great songwriter and singer, a visionary about the imagery of rock 'n' roll, as someone who both coveted and reinvented superstardom and who hated many of its by-products. He was an extraordinarily thoughtful and supportive friend, a loving husband and father, as well as a tormented depressive and textbook druggie. As with all of the great rock icons, his place in history is the result of a combination of his own talents and ambitions and the timing and context in which he did his work.

there's something really amazing about this party at cinespace on tuesdays that we've been doing for the last almost 3 years that defies every lame thing that exists in LA. Hollywood is a very weird place... and can change people faster than most cities, at least from my knowledge, and not in the best ways either. dont get me wrong i love living here. i work here, in the day, at night, i live in the center of it and i love it. and honestly its because of this party that we throw on tuesdays and this new party that cobrasnake, dj am and i created for another "no bottle service" "no cologneheads" party that tries to bring back some SOUL into why we are doing the things we are doing, playing out the songs we are playing, and ultimately creating a world we want to be part of and make fucking awesome. i hate hearing other people give pep talks like this but i just want to give back to all the rad people that come to tuesdays and now sundays and are down to hear new music and new bands and make this thing we have really special. thank you.

starting it all off at our the dim mak cinespace tuesdays party and this one was super duper special for us because our newest signees Whitey performed their live show which was absolutely fucking stunning! Incredible! I adore this artist and have been a major fan of Whitey for a long time coming and now they came, all over everyone..

lets start it out with sexy time dora who is our supermodel postergirl of dim mak collection.

Back in the late '90s, my very first email address was an AOL account. 15 years later and I'm back, but not with an account but a whole section on Spinner.com. I'm going to include pics from all the different cities I'll be traveling to, some video clips from my L.A. residencies at cinespace tuesdays and banana split sundaes with DJ AM, podcasts, mixes and the latest and greatest from our very own Dim Mak records and Dim Mak collection. It's gonna be jam packed and full of surprises. Pretty exciting stuff. To give back as well, Dim Mak does contests around certain shows like Bloc Party, the Rapture, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, in the past giving away tickets, etc., so that will be added into this little weekly tirade of info. Thanks for checking this shit out and see you soon.

Keep reading for my playlist, photos and more. Don't forget to send me your mix for the Next On the Decks 2 contest.

Steve Aoki.

I keep hearing about this Pancake Mountain children's show, but I have yet to see an entire episode. A friend once excitedly emailed me after her first viewing, describing it as, "A show where hilarious kids dance around to real bands. And sometimes there are puppets." Well, like an idiot I kept neglecting it, until today when PFork posted this lovely clip of Ms. Jenny Lewis shakin' her sequin mini-dress for some small children.



Judging by this clip alone, Pancake Mountain is clearly an awesome show that we should all be watching.

Sometimes Swiss designer Stephane Barbier Bouvet makes sweet things, like birdhouses with cookies inside of them, but sometimes he also likes to make ashtrays out of human skulls. Scroll down to the third item here to learn more about these "limited edition" human bone ashtrays, pencil-holders and photo stands. Act soon -- he only has 7 of them to spare, and no, he does not explain how he got them.


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Miss Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Karen O, sure loves herself some 'Project Runway.' She spoke with our news folks recently, professing her infatuation with the show and is clearly dying for the finale.

"The suspense is killing me," she groans down the phone to AOL Music. "I watch it with my friends. We're very into the dramatic highs and lows, the sadism that goes on [and] how mean everyone is to each other."

In fact she's so down with the show it looks like there's a chance she'll make a guest appearance at some point.

"Actually, they've approached me a couple of times, but nothing really happened. Maybe if we get all the AOL readers to push behind it, [it will happen]," she laughs.

C'mon AOL readers, get on it. As you can clearly tell from the above photo, she has a keen eye for fashion. Read the whole story here.

Fresh out of rehab, reunited with his lady love Kate Moss and back from his little sojourn to the syringe store, our beloved Pete Doherty (that's DOCK-erty to you) is set to model and design clothing. This gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "heroin chic."

Stay tuned for more, because you know we are way too Doherty-obsessed not to follow this story like a crackhead itching for a fix. A sex tape seems like the next logical step in this ongoing saga.