October 2011
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Hear four tracks from Chris Cornell's forthcoming... →
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Anonymous asked: I wish a movie was made out of your book! I love it so much and it would be so cool to see it played out onscreen. I've seen hype, but it would be so interesting to see like actual actors in a movie about the grunge scene.
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Hear "Cleaning My Gun," from Chris Cornell's...
Chris Cornell - Cleaning My Gun by chriscornell
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See Pearl Jam's new "Not for You" video, directed... →
Features live and behind-the-scenes footage.
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Stream Scott Weiland's forthcoming Christmas album →
If you dare.
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nirvananews:
Today in 1990, Nirvana recorded four tracks (“D-7,” “Molly’s Lips,” “Turnaround,” & “Son of a Gun”) in a John Peel Session in London.This is footage from the session.
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Everybody Loves Our Town Q&A/book signing at...
Fuck yeah, weird-looking Frank Gehry buildings! At last, I’m doing a book event in Seattle:
WHEN: Tuesday, November 15, 2011; 7 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Experience Music Project Museum, Seattle WHAT: EMP Senior Curator Jacob McMurray will lead a Q&A with me about all things grunge. Afterward, I’ll be signing copies of my book, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, which...
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Read Vanity Fair's Courtney Love profile
Vanity Fair has posted the entirety of Nancy Jo Sales’ “Love in a Cold Climate” (from the November 2011 issue).
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My Band T-Shirt: 28. Hole, Teenage Whore (1993) →
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I first became aware of Hole through a girl at school named Claire. Claire was beautiful, and funny, and popular, and I suspected that all my male friends were secretly half in love with her. I was in awe of her too, but having not yet told everyone I was gay, I wanted to be close to her for…
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Hole pull out of Australian festival after... →
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I shared a lot of rooms with [Nirvana drummer] Chad Channing, laughing all night...
– ex-TAD drummer Steve Wiederhold recalls the 1989 Nirvana/TAD European tour, from Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge
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Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon... →
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The late Mike Starr on the night Diamond Lie...
“For the show, we put a white sheet up in front of the stage and our manager came up and said, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, Diamond Lie won’t be here tonight, but we have for you … Alice in Chains!” You could just see our silhouettes through the sheet, and by the first quarter of the song, the sheet dropped and it was us. And we had a backdrop that said ALICE IN CHAINS. It was...
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I didn’t dump Billy [Corgan] to go out with Kurt. If anything, later on Billy...
– Courtney Love, from Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge
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