May 10th, 2013
Just did a phone interview with the talented Jodie Foster. Not a humblebrag, just an excuse to recreate the conversation in GIF form.

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

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December 22nd, 2012
Zoom Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil interviews Mudhoney’s Mark Arm. Rock journalism—so easy you can do it with your eyes closed!

Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil interviews Mudhoney’s Mark Arm. Rock journalism—so easy you can do it with your eyes closed!

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June 14th, 2012

New film to feature never-before-heard Layne Staley tracks



Paste reports: Grassroots, a Seattle-centric film from director Stephen Gyllenhaal, will feature two never-before-heard songs from deceased Alice in Chains frontman Layne Staley. The film stars Jason Biggs as an alt-weekly music critic who suddenly decides to campaign for a highly competitive spot on the Seattle City Council.

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March 18th, 2012
Zoom “Sub Pop: Seattle: Rock City” by Everett True, Melody Maker, March 18, 1989 (scan by Archived Music Press)“There’s a quote of mine from the Sub Pop article that has been used more than anything else I’ve written, which is the earliest description of Nirvana in a British music paper—how ‘They’re four working-class guys from Aberdeen, blah blah blah.’ What’s really kind of annoying about seeing that description everywhere is, although it’s attributed to me, they’re not my words. I was on serious deadline, an I wasn’t an experienced writer by any stretch of the imagination back then. So I was on the phone to [Sub Pop’s] Jonathan Poneman in Seattle and I was copying down word-for-word what he was telling me about these artists. That’s quite dreadful, really, but what the hell.”—former Melody Maker writer Everett True, from Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge

“Sub Pop: Seattle: Rock City” by Everett True, Melody Maker, March 18, 1989 (scan by Archived Music Press)

“There’s a quote of mine from the Sub Pop article that has been used more than anything else I’ve written, which is the earliest description of Nirvana in a British music paper—how ‘They’re four working-class guys from Aberdeen, blah blah blah.’ What’s really kind of annoying about seeing that description everywhere is, although it’s attributed to me, they’re not my words. I was on serious deadline, an I wasn’t an experienced writer by any stretch of the imagination back then. So I was on the phone to [Sub Pop’s] Jonathan Poneman in Seattle and I was copying down word-for-word what he was telling me about these artists. That’s quite dreadful, really, but what the hell.”

—former Melody Maker writer Everett True, from Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge

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