May 18th, 2013

A two-year-old’s rendition of Pearl Jam’s “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town.” The clip was shot in 2007 and uploaded to YouTube in 2010, but is getting increased attention now because Pearl Jam posted it on their official Facebook page.

May 17th, 2013

Mother Love Bone’s self-titled compilation is being released on (purple) vinyl for the first time, on Tuesday (May 21). Details here.

May 16th, 2013

nickgazin:

This is a shirt that I designed that Wavves printed for the tour that they are either on now or just finished. This is a very Tumblr oriented shirt. I was told that these are selling really well and that they’ve already had to reprint them.

If you can’t tell, it’s Charles Barkley and Nirvana from when they were on SNL together. The drawing is based on the promo they did for the episode and the text is something Barkley said during the promo. 

They printed it really nicely with discharge ink so it doesn’t sit on top of the shirt like plastic based inks but is really thin and doesn’t change the texture of the fabric. 

May 15th, 2013

Spin: On the 20th anniversary of their iconic 1993 breakthrough, now reissued as an expanded package titled ‘LSXX,’ the Breeders’ definitive lineup reunites and AMANDA PETRUSICH dives in, talking with all the key players and supporters who helped make ‘Last Splash’ one of the most exhilarating albums of the decade. [Link]

May 14th, 2013

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/

May 14th, 2013

“Mescalito,” from Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood’s album Black Pudding, out today.

(Source: Spotify)

May 12th, 2013

“Jerry Cantrell Shares the Tales Behind Some of the Most Treasured Pieces in His Arsenal,” Guitar World, June 2013

(Source: nemi72)

May 11th, 2013

Mudhoney’s new single: “New World Charm” b/w “Swimming in Beer” and “The Swimming in Beer Blues.” More info here.

(Source: Spotify)

Loading tweets...

@markyarm

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.