EVERYBODY LOVES OUR TOWN

Today, the Onion A.V. Club asks, Are oral histories a good way to write about music? (My answer: definitely not as often as many writers and editors seem to think.) The piece, pegged to today’s release of Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal by my friends Jon Wiederhorn and Katherine Turman, gives a nice shout-out to my book, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge:

Everybody Loves Our Town is an oral history, and it’s about the Seattle grunge scene. It’s also a fantastic work of journalism, one that punctures a lot of the mythology surrounding the town and sound that Nirvana supposedly built (but really didn’t). Besides giving a soapbox to various grunge-era lunatics and movers-and-shakers alike, it’s not afraid to show some of its subjects contradicting each other. Or in the case of Courtney Love, lashing out at Yarm as he interviews her.

Check out the Louder Than Hell Tumblr here. \m/

Just did a phone interview with the talented Jodie Foster. Not a humblebrag, just an excuse to recreate the conversation in GIF form.

suicidewatch:

Nirvana

coverjunkie:

REJECTED New York Mag (US)

Out on the internet for a few days, finally chance to show you guys;

Anna Wintour stars this rejected cover New York Magazine, read here all about it…
they considered this cover celebrating the opening of the Met Museum Costume Institute’s annual Punk fashion exhibit (Chaos to Couture) opening May 9. The cover was dropped cause of the events in Boston and published this one instead

Illustrated by Darrow
Design Director Thomas Alberty 

This is awesome.

rndmband:

RNDM has a beef with Conan

istealforksfromrestaurants:

Kristin Hersh + Black Francis

subpoprecords:

We set @EugeneMirman up with an office today. (at Sub Pop HQ Men’s Room)