January 23rd, 2013

Sub Pop’s U.K. Lamefest named one of The 10 Greatest Gigs of all time in Q magazine. (Via the Experiencing Nirvana Facebook page)

January 20th, 2013

Pearl Jam live at The Borderline, London, 1992.

(Source: chocolate-and-music)

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December 20th, 2012
Display case from In Bloom: The Nirvana Nevermind Exhibit (London, 2011).

Display case from In Bloom: The Nirvana Nevermind Exhibit (London, 2011).

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December 6th, 2012

Krist Novoselic winds up to smash Kurt Cobain’s guitar at the U.K. Lamefest, 1989. That’s Sub Pop cofounder Bruce Pavitt in the Harvey Mudd sweatshirt. (Steve Double photo via the Experiencing Nirvana Facebook page)

November 12th, 2012

EW.com has posted an interview with Sub Pop cofounder Bruce Pavitt and some exclusive images from his new ebook Experiencing Nirvana: Grunge in Europe, 1989. Here’s what Pavitt has to say about the above photo, which he took at Rough Trade Records in London:

“You’ve got one of the world’s most famous rock stars ever, and here is this innocent period where he’s just talking about music. It’s a very sweet image, and to go back in time to see people just relating to each other as bands, as friends, as community, it’s really powerful. This is the big rock-star moment of the whole book, and it’s him signing an autograph in a tiny story to a handful of customers. He wasn’t cleaning toilets in Aberdeen, he was signing his record. That’s a big lifestyle shift in six months.”

(Source: music-mix.ew.com)

November 10th, 2012

Soundgarden play 02 Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London on Friday.

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October 22nd, 2012

Mudhoney’s Mark Arm, TAD’s Tad Doyle and Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain at Sub Pop’s Lamefest at the London Astoria, December 3, 1989. These and many other great grunge-era photos can be found at Steve Double Photography’s Facebook page.

October 19th, 2012

Soundgarden perform “Jesus Christ Pose” at Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London, March 12, 1994. It was the venue’s inaugural show. Soundgarden will play there again November 9, a one-off gig to promote the forthcoming King Animal.

June 20th, 2012

Chris Cornell plays the Beatles’ “A Day in the Life” in London Monday to mark Paul McCartney’s 70th birthday.

May 29th, 2012

jukeboxgraduate:

NEW, original Afghan Whigs material from London on Sunday. Be still my heart.

(Was unofficially, officially sort of confirmed)

May 23rd, 2012
If I Think (Mudhoney cover)
Tall Firs
I'll Be Your Mirror London covers project

Tall Firs’ cover of Mudhoney’s “If I Think,” part of the I’ll Be Your Mirror London covers project. Free download here.

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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.