Love & Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain by Max Wallace and Ian Halperin was released on April 3rd 2004 by Atria Books/Simon & Schuster.

Below is some of the coverage from the publicity tour the authors and Private Investigator Tom Grant went on. Unless noted otherwise, all media files are in Windows Media format. You'll need the free Windows Media player (or anything that can play ASX/WMV files) to watch and listen to these clips.

TELEVISION
Dateline NBC with Matt Laurer interviewed Tom Grant, Max Wallace and Ian Halperin on April 2nd 2004. At the request of NBC, this video is no longer available for streaming on this site. Read the transcript instead. An off-site Quicktime version is available here.

On April 5th 2004, Tom Grant, Max Wallace and Ian Halerpin made several television appearances. It started with the NBC Today show for a live interview with Matt Laurer at 9:05am. Video no longer available.

This was followed by an afternoon appearance on the Catherine Crier Live show on CourtTV. This appearance also included taped comments from Kurt's grandfather Leland Cobain who has come out with doubts about the suicide verdict, and a new clip of a conversation between Tom Grant and Rosemary Carroll shortly after Cobain's death. This interview got the best response from viewers. Stream or download (6mb) the entire 8 minute interview. (96k Windows Media)

Later that night, the trio were interviewed by Paula Zahn on CNN at 8:45pm. Stream or download (5mb) the entire 7 minute segment. (96k Windows Media)

On April 6th 2004, Max Wallace, Ian Halperin and Tom Grant were interviewed by Hannah Storm on the CBS Early Show. The authors said they were not accusing Courtney Love and are requesting that she authorize the release of the Cobain medical examiner report. "We're not accusing her of anything. We just want her to come forward and vindicate herself, but still if she is vindicated it does not mean that Kurt Cobain wasn't murdered. Then she should get on the trail and help find the killers", said Ian Halperin. Stream or download (5mb) the entire 7 minute interview. (96k Windows Media)

RADIO
The theories were discussed on BBC Radio 2's After Nirvana special which aired on April 3rd 2004. It's clips of Max Wallace (Love & Death) and Charles Cross (Heavier Than Heaven) going back and forth on the issue. Stream or download that 5 minute excerpt. (1mb / Windows Media Audio).

Max Wallace and Ian Halperin were on the syndicated Mancow morning show out of Chicago on April 8th 2004. Stream or download the 8 minute interview. (Windows Media / 950kb).

Later that afternoon, Ian Halperin talked to Jeff Marek on Mojo Radio AM640 out of Toronto Canada. He pointed out some of the info in the new book, addressed Love's New York Daily News statement about them the day before, says the case will be reopened eventually and takes a few calls. Stream or download the approx. 30 minute interview (joined in progress a few minutes in). (Windows Media / 3mb).

Ian Halperin was on the Jeff Marek Show on Mojo Radio again on April 20th, this time with Tom Grant. They went over some of the case points, gave an update on the publicity the new book has gotten and answered questions. Stream or download the entire 25 minute interview. (Windows Media / 3mb)

INTERNET
Plenty of online mentions about the new book and the theories. Here are a few of the stories, press releases and statements that were posted on the web sites of mainstream media outlets.

10th Anniversary of Kurt Cobain's Death - Part 4 (Calgary Sun)
"There isn’t a set time of grieving when somebody is lost the way he was." Odd then that Cobain’s grandfather, 80-year-old Leland Cobain, was treating Monday as just another day, claiming he was “over it pretty well, now.” Then again, maybe that’s because Leland doesn’t think Kurt took his own life. “I think he was murdered, yeah,” says the elder Cobain during an interview with the Sun. Leland’s charges are also contained in a new book titled Love & Death, which was published — ghoulishly, some might say — on this 10th anniversary, and which alleges the frontman for Nirvana was murdered. While authors Ian Halperin and Canadian Max Wallace don’t come out and explicitly level the charge, it’s obvious the answer they have for their previous book, Who Killed Kurt Cobain?, is his widow Courtney Love. Leland isn’t so committal. “I have no idea who done it, but I think the cops in Seattle really goofed up,” he says."

Cobain conspiracy theories live on (Newsday)
Cobain Conspiracy II - Authors reexamine murder theory (New York Daily News)
Book questions Kurt Cobain's death (NDTV)
Kurt Cobain: Not A Suicide? (CBS News)
Courtney Love Facing Possible Allegations Of Murder (Celebrity Cafe)
Fans Say Goodbye to Kurt Cobain Again – But Questions Still Linger (antiMUSIC)
New Book Claims Kurt Cobain Didn't Commit Suicide (MTV)
Cobain 'was too heavily drugged to pull the trigger' (The Scotsman)
Smells Like A Conspiracy (KBCI, Boise Idaho)
New Book Suggests Cobain Was Murdered (NBC5, Chicago)
Was Kurt Cobain Murdered? (KTVU, San Francisco)
Kurt Cobain was shot dead, claim writers (WebIndia)
Fans mourn the death of a rock icon ten years later (Revelle Online)
Milk It (Village Voice)
Canadian author issues Love a challenge (Calgary Sun)
Montreal authors suggest Cobain murdered (Canadian Press)

New York Daily News
"....Meanwhile, [Courtney] Love is lashing out at a book that alleges she may have had a hand in the death of her husband, Nirvana rocker Kurt Cobain, in 1994. Max Wallace and Ian Halperin, authors of "Love & Death," have "opportunistically used the anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death to promote their ongoing campaign of greed and exploitation of what remains an unbearable tragedy for us all," Love told us in a statement." She said Seattle Police had officially ruled Cobain's death a suicide."

New Book Reveals Evidence that Rock Icon was Murdered (Atria Press Release) Relying on a leaked autopsy report and Seattle Police Department records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, they reveal that the official suicide scenario was scientifically impossible. The records show that Cobain had ingested a triple lethal dose of heroin, before his life was ended with a shotgun bullet, suggesting a murder staged to look like a suicide.

In the book, Kurt's grandfather Leland Cobain goes public for the first time, charging that his grandson was murdered. He joins a chorus of others close to Kurt and Courtney who now dispute the official verdict.