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/

jenniewoodanddid:

Love Returns.  

CLOVE on the cover of June / July 2013 Bust.

2013 Summer Tour dates are being announced here. I’ll see you there.

thekittencovers:

LOL - 9 Lives Through This

Courtney Love hawks e-cigarettes at Coachella.

Click here to listen to Fall Out Boy’s “Rat a Tat,” featuring Courtney Love. It’s from FOB’s upcoming album Save Rock and Roll.

SeattlePI.com: Kurt Cobain suicide scene: Previously unpublished photos

WARNING: Though there’s nothing overly graphic in these photos, the shots of Kurt’s sheet-covered body being carried out on a stretcher are particularly disturbing. (There are also photos of people attending Kurt’s memorial ceremony, plus some previously unpublished live shots.)

Courtney! Whoopi! Watch Courtney Love’s appearance on The View here. (Barbara Walters is pretty tough on her.)

sugar-coma:

Kat & Courtney. The lost voices of the generation that never even was.

From Courtney Love’s old scrapbook (background here).

(Source: fuckyeahcourtneylove)