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“We’re not teenagers anymore, so we’re not a big druggie band, although people...”
– Melvins drummer Dale Crover, in an interview with Ultimate Classic Rock
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“I had just put my bags down in our hotel room in London and turned on MTV. I saw...”
– Soundgarden bassist Ben Shepherd, from Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge
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Win a chance to ask Dave, Krist and/or Butch your...
From the SiriusXM site: To qualify, we’re asking SiriusXM subscribers to submit their most creative and insightful questions about Nirvana’s re-issue of Nevermind or their musical career, for the chance to pose the question in person to Novoselic, Grohl, and Vig directly at the event. We’ll choose twenty (20) of the best questions and invite those people to meet up in New York City, where they...
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Read a full chapter from Everybody Loves Our Town:...
The release of my book Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge is a little more than a week away (September 6). But you can read a full chapter—on the making of Nirvana’s Nevermind—right now by “liking” the ELOT Facebook page. Pre-order at Amazon, Barnes & Noble or Indiebound. (Please reblog!)
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Hear Chris Cornell's new song, "The Keeper"
From the forthcoming movie Machine Gun Preacher. You can download it at ChrisCornell.com for the rest of today, with all proceeds going to Sam Childers’s Angels of East Africa charity.
Chris Cornell - The Keeper
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Fender's teaser video for the Kurt Cobain Jaguar...
Background info here.
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POLL TIME! Today is the 20th anniversary of Pearl... →
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Pearl Jam's Ten Turns 20: Engineer Dave Hillis...
In honor of the 20th anniversary of the release of Pearl Jam’s debut Ten, here’s an excerpt from Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge in which engineer Dave Hillis looks back on the making of the album:
“A lot of people ask me, ‘What was it like working on the Pearl Jam record? It must have been magical.’ And honestly, it really wasn’t. The music was...
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“You know, no, I don’t get tired of playing ‘Yellow Ledbetter.’ Who...”
– Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McMcready, in Seattle Met magazine
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An amusing anecdote involving Chris Cornell, his...
Susan Silver, Chris Cornell’s ex-wife and the former manager of Soundgarden, discusses Cornell’s affect on the ladies in this excerpt from the upcoming book Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge: “The female attention never ruffled me. I felt we had such security in our relationship then that it never occurred to me. I remember a show in Philadelphia in the early...
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Jon Stewart to host SiriusXM Q&A with Grohl,... →
nirvananews:
NEW YORK — Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart will host a Q&A session with the surviving members of rock band Nirvana to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its album “Nevermind.”
Stewart will host the event on SiriusXM for two hours on Sept. 24. It will feature fans, Nirvana band members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, and Butch Vig, the producer behind “Nevermind.” Kurt Cobain, the...
jezebeljinx asked: Is your book being released internationally in all kinds of bookstores? Or does it have to be ordered via the Internet? I'd love to read it but I live in Belgium.
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Book excerpt: Did Mudhoney's Mark Arm coin the...
This excerpt from Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge addresses the enduring mystery of who coined the term grunge: JACK ENDINO (producer; Skin Yard guitarist) None of us is entirely sure about who used the word [grunge] first. I saw it in a Lester Bangs record review in Rolling Stone in the ’70s. Mark Arm had used the word in the early ’80s. MAIRE MASCO (Desperate...
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Rolling Stone readers vote Miley Cyrus's take on... →
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WatchPearl Jam’s Jeff Ament shreds, promotes PJ20 Vans.
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“Smashing Pumpkins. Puddle of Mudd. Silverchair. Bush. Muse. Ash. Courtney Love....”
– rock critic Everett True, busting the “myth” that “grunge had a great legacy”
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Goodreads' Everybody Loves Our Town book giveaway! →
Goodreads is giving away 10 copies of Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge to registered users. Click the link above to enter.
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“Cobain had the wounded-junkie look that for some reason women watching MTV think...”
– Melvins frontman Buzz Osborne, in the upcoming book Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge
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Rolling Stone: Inside the 20th-anniversary reissue...
“Kurt was so compelled to write songs, so he’d always be banging something out,” Novoselic adds. “He’d have these ideas, and we’d just kick ‘em around for hours.” They recorded the rehearsals on a boombox, and those rough tapes—including spellbinding sketches of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and “Come as You Are”—are another...
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Brooklyn launch event for Everybody Loves Our...
Featuring me! And Rob Sheffield, author of Love Is a Mix Tape and Talking to Girls About Duran Duran! And some sort of alcoholic beverages! Please RSVP here!
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Celebrity Grunge Playlist No. 1: TAYLOR MOMSEN
Eighteen-year-old Taylor Momsen, who played Jenny Humphrey on the first four seasons of Gossip Girl, recently announced she’s quitting acting to dedicate her full attention to her band the Pretty Reckless. A self-described “massive Chris Cornell fan,” the rock provocateur shared her list of Top 10 grunge songs (in no particular order), with this caveat: “I’m talking...
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Facebook, please stop removing the Nevermind album...
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