‘Everybody Loves Our Town’ - review and interview with author
Check out my review of Everybody Loves Our Town: A History of Grunge on MultiMediaMouth.com - with an exclusive interview with author Mark Yarm (visit his Tumblr site Grungebook)
Check out my review of Everybody Loves Our Town: A History of Grunge on MultiMediaMouth.com - with an exclusive interview with author Mark Yarm (visit his Tumblr site Grungebook)
Surviving Mad Season members Mike McCready and Barrett Martin perform “River of Deceit” at the Showbox in Seattle last night. Vocals by Loaded bassist Jeff Rouse. (Video by Guerrilla Candy.)
It looks like life-long Cubs fan Eddie Vedder didn’t take his team’s loss to the White Sox in the Crosstown Classic too hard.
The Pearl Jam rocker partied with former Blackhawk Chris Chelios and the now retired Kerry Wood at Stanley’s Kitchen & Tap in Lincoln Park Sunday after attending the game at Wrigley Field and turned the bar’s famous live band karaoke into an impromptu performance.
It all began when one bar patron opted to sing Pearl Jam’s “Alive.” Vedder joined him on stage and turned the song into the duet, much to the delight of half the bar. I hear the other half of the bar was too in the bag to realize what was happening.
The Evanston native sang around five songs, including The Band’s “The Weight” and The Who’s “Baba O’Riley” (aka “Teenage Wasteland”). He took a break afterward but would return to join another patron who was struggling through his respective song.
This wasn’t Vedder’s first time giving an impromptu performance after a Cubs game. Vedder unexpectedly performed at Murphy’s Bleachers in Wrigleyville last July following a game between the Cubs and San Francisco Giants.
Willie Nelson and son Lukas cover Pearl Jam’s “Just Breathe” live on SiriusXM. In related news, here’s audio of a conversation between Willie Nelson and Eddie Vedder.
That Metal Show backstage exclusive: Mike McCready’s worst gig (H/T GrungeReport.net)
Green River
(Source: livetorise)
Check out the Everybody Loves Our Town–inspired Pinterest board my publisher put together.
crownpublishing:
Are you a grunge fan? Check out our Pinterest board. We’ve curated the best images and videos of grunge to celebrate the paperback release of Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge by Mark Yarm.
(via History of Grunge)
“Skipping,” a new song by Eddie Vedder, from the Every Mother Counts 2012 benefit album.
Brad - “Make the Pain Go Away”
Noted playwright Mando Alvarado’s modern spin on William Shakespeare’s Hamlet places the plot in the Lower East Side for a more relatable take on the quintessential tale of struggling family dynamics, power, and revenge. Fusing the music and themes from American rock icon Pearl Jam’s ground-breaking album, Ten, with a gritty Lower East Side dynamic, this concert event relates Shakespeare’s 17th century literature to 21st century New York City.
(Source: gothamist.com)
Hear me talk about my book Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge on the Nights With Alice Cooper radio show (originally aired March 8).
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