November 2011
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Good press day!
The U.K.’s Guardian names Everybody Loves Our Town one of its top music books of 2011. Stateside, ELOT is No. 4 on Vulture’s holiday gift guide.
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Jerusalem loves Our Town! →
Oren Siegel and Oded Fluss, hosts of 106FM Jerusalem’s Jekyll and Hyde show, interviewed me about Everybody Loves Our Town for this two-hour-long (!) episode. Fortunately, they broke up my prattle with a killer selection of grunge songs.
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shyofaspark asked: Wonderful blog x
jezebeljinx asked: This book was totally worth the money. I learned a lot about (the beginning of) the scene. It was really nice that there were different opinions on the same subject, the design was really punk, sweet pictures... The only thing I didn't liked so much was that I didn't read anything positive about CLove. My fav chapters were of course those about Malfunkshun/MLB/Andy. Really touching.
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Win a Wee Beaver fuzz pedal signed by Mudhoney!
CONTEST DETAILS: What’s That Dude Play? and DiscoFreq’s FX Site (EffectsDatabase) are giving TWO lucky Facebook fans (one per website fan page) the chance to win an El Musico Loco Wee Beaver fuzz signed by Mark Arm and Steve Turner of Seattle’s legendary grunge-smiths Mudhoney! The boys took this pedals out on a little tour a bit earlier this year, so they are all broke in and...
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Lee Ranaldo on the Future of Sonic Youth →
perpetua:
I interviewed one of my all-time favorite musicians for Rolling Stone! Lee talks about the Kim/Thurston split, his first proper solo album, what it means to “return to form,” and disses Ryan Gosling for being too much of a pretty boy. Check it out!
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EBay find: Nirvana In Utero tour angel arm
From the listing: Here’s a fiberglass arm from one of the two life-sized Angel figures that appeared on stage during Nirvana’s 1993-1994 “In Utero” world tour. The Angels, biological models similar to the one on the “In Utero” album cover, appeared on stage during all the shows on the tour, as well as in numerous Nirvana television appearances. As detailed in the two accompanying letters...
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“I remember playing a show at bar in Vancouver, BC, in 1986…. We were the...”
– Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell, speaking to Spin.com
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Kurt Cobain biopic title: This Is Gonna Suck →
For real.
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“And here’s the tragedy of that [Nirvana Unplugged] show: The minute the last...”
– Seaweed singer Aaron Stauffer, who attended Nirvana’s Nov. 18, 1993, taping of MTV Unplugged, from Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge
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Reminder: I'll be doing a Q&A/book signing at the... →
It’s a Seattle Weekly recommended event. If you’re in Seattle, give me a shout and I can add you to the guest list. To promote the event, I will be doing an interview on Seattle’s KOMO Newsradio (1000 AM, 97.7 FM) around 3:45 PT this afternoon.
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Hear four more tracks from Chris Cornell's... →
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“The closest I came to [Seattle’s] drug trade was when I accompanied my...”
– Brendan Francis Newman, writing about Seattle for CNN.com Travel
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Mudhoney documentary I'm Now to premiere in... →
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Grammy winning rock giants Creed will hold special...
maura:
That’s it. Everybody go home.
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Don’t despair: The release says, “News on U.S. shows will follow in due course.”
endlessmeghan replied to your post: New Mark Lanegan Band album, Blues Funeral, out February 7 (U.S.)
I just despise that he’s not touring the states with this. i love his music, i met him and nearly melted at his feet, i understand Europe’s cooler than the US, but i’m not in Europe and I want to...
