May 1st, 2013

Video of Blondie’s Clem Burke recording guest drums for the Melvins’ cover of the Kinks’ “Attitude.”

April 28th, 2013

Alice in Chains timekeeper Sean Kinney’s new bass drum head is an apparent tribute to Layne Staley and Mike Starr.

(Source: facebook.com)

January 12th, 2013

melvinmania:

Dale Crover from (the) Melvins stopped by West LA School of Rock USA yesterday to jam with the kids and lay down some wisdom. 

Reblogged from Melvinmania
October 9th, 2012

Soundgarden’s Chris Cornellback on drums!and Ben Shepherd jam at Radio Bandit, Sweden. (Photo via Soundgarden’s Facebook page)

June 12th, 2012

nirvananews:

Chad Channing, dorm party at The Evergreen State College, 1988.

Reblogged from
May 8th, 2012

Melvins drummers Dale Crover and Coady Willis, live in New York, April 29, 2012. (Photo by Jammi York; see more show pics at Verbicide)

February 25th, 2012

Former 7 Year Bitch drummer Valerie Agnew’s drum head, on display in her home. (Photo courtesy of Home Alive Documentary)

December 13th, 2011
The kit Alice in Chains drummer Sean Kinney used to record Dirt (Hard Rock memorabilia collection)

The kit Alice in Chains drummer Sean Kinney used to record Dirt (Hard Rock memorabilia collection)

Reblogged from Jezebel Jinx
June 7th, 2011

Today in grunge auctions: Eddie Vedder’s uke, Dave Grohl’s decimated drums

Bid on a Kamaka Ukulele signed by Eddie Vedder (eBay) or “a remnant of the TAMA bass drum from Nirvana’s Dave Grohl’s first drum-kit, as smashed on stage by Kurt Cobain at the end of a concert at the Cabaret Metro, Chicago, 12th Oct. 1991, and subsequently thrown out into the crowd” (Christie’s).
 

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Official Tumblr for Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, a Time magazine book of the year. (Now in paperback; purchase info here.) The blog is run by the author, freelance writer/editor Mark Yarm; he is of no relation to Mark Arm of Mudhoney.