November 15th, 2012

“Too Dirty To Love,” the new single from Caspar Babypants (a.k.a. Chris Ballew of the Presidents of the United States of America), featuring Mudhoney’s Steve Turner and Visqueen’s Rachel Flotard.

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August 1st, 2012

Trailer for The Taking, a 10-part film starring Duff McKagan’s Loaded and featuring appearances by Seattle luminaries such as Alice in Chains’ Jerry Cantrell and Sean Kinney, the Fastbacks’ Kim Warnick and Kurt Bloch, and Presidents of the United States of America’s Chris Ballew. More info here.

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February 27th, 2012

Bid on a copy of Everybody Loves Our Town signed by Krist Novoselic, Duff McKagan and other Seattle scene luminaries


Bid on a hardcover copy of my book Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge signed by Krist Novoselic (Nirvana), Duff McKagan (Guns N’ Roses, Loaded, the Fartz, etc.), Kurt Danielson (TAD), Jack Endino (producer; Skin Yard), Kurt Bloch (Fastbacks), Kim Warnick (Fastbacks), Marco Collins (radio DJ), Chris Ballew (Presidents of the USA), Jason Finn (Love Battery, Skin Yard, PUSA), Scott McCaughey (Young Fresh Fellows), Ben London (Alcohol Funnycar) and yours truly!

All proceeds go to the Susie Tennant Fund. Make sure to check out the other cool items being auctioned off to benefit Susie, Nirvana’s former Northwest promotion rep, who is fighting ovarian cancer.

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February 13th, 2012
Zoom Love Battery with the crowd in Osaka, Japan, December 1993. Back, middle: Alex Shumway of Green River and Scott McCaughey of Love Battery tourmates the Young Fresh Fellows. (Photo by Michael Nichols; used with permission)

Love Battery with the crowd in Osaka, Japan, December 1993. Back, middle: Alex Shumway of Green River and Scott McCaughey of Love Battery tourmates the Young Fresh Fellows. (Photo by Michael Nichols; used with permission)

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September 21st, 2011


Photos from last night’s Nevermind Live concert at the Experience Music Project. (Ken Lambert/The Seattle Times)

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September 21st, 2011

Presidents of the United States of America and Krist Novoselic perform Nirvana’s “On a Plain” at last night’s Nevermind Live concert at the Experience Music Project. (Posted by ssgmusic.com.)

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September 21st, 2011

Watch the entirety of last night’s Nevermind Live: A Benefit Show for Susie Tennant.

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September 21st, 2011

Reminder: Live video stream of the Experience Music Project’s Nevermind Live in Sky Church benefit show…



…starts 15 minutes from now (at 10 p.m. PT). Performers include the Presidents of the United States of America,  Fastbacks, Krist Novoselic, Vaporland, Duff McKagan’s Loaded, the Long Winters, Visqueen, Valis and more.

After those artists cover Nevermind, there will be a special encore set of Nirvana songs played by Young Fresh Fellows with Peter Buck, Pigeonhed, Tom Price Desert Classic and more.

Click here to watch.

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August 21st, 2011

Krist Novoselic performs Nirvana’s “Stay Away” with the Presidents of the United States of America at the Southwest Washington Fair Friday night. Krist and PUSA also performed Nirvana’s “On a Plain” (video here).

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August 18th, 2011

Nevermind 20th-anniversary concert is sold out!



Only two days after it was announced, the September 20 Nevermind Live in Sky Church benefit show at Seattle’s Experience Music Project—featuring Krist Novoselic, the Presidents of the United States of America, the Fastbacks, Vaporland, the Long Winters, Visqueen, Valis and more—is sold out.

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August 12th, 2011
Zoom @KristNovoselic tweets: “I will be doing a couple of tunes with the Presidents of the United States of America at the SW Washington Fair next Friday.”  (H/T Nirvana News)

@KristNovoselic tweets: “I will be doing a couple of tunes with the Presidents of the United States of America at the SW Washington Fair next Friday.”  (H/T Nirvana News)

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June 3rd, 2011
I was an extra in Singles. I was part of the infamous French café scene. If you read about that movie—there’s a Cameron Crowe diary—he’s like, ‘That scene was a huge pain in my ass,’ and he finally cuts it. It was just a couple of the principals talking, and we all had to smoke constantly to make it smoky. The crew was coming through wearing masks, going, ‘Keep smoking! Keep smoking!’ I was sitting with Roderick of Sky Cries Mary and his wife. I was a heavy smoker at the time, but we were there for four or five hours and finally we couldn’t take the smoke any more. We said, ‘Fuck it,’ and went over to the Pioneer Square Saloon and got some beers.
from my interview with Jason Finn, the Presidents of the United States of America/Skin Yard/Love Battery drummer; this post was inspired by “Singles - Nine Deleted Scenes” over at Cameron Crowe’s official site

 
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April 22nd, 2011
Sliver (feat. Krist Novoselic)
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This is Fun!

Cover of Nirvana’s “Sliver” by Caspar Babypants, the kids’ music side project of Presidents of the United States of America member Chris Ballew. Extra grunge cred courtesy of guest bassist Krist Novoselic and producer Jack Endino. (Thanks to Rachel for bringing this to my attention.) 

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April 20th, 2011
Zoom Jason Finn, of Presidents of the USA/Love Battery/Skin Yard fame, explained the origin of this delightful cover image to me in 2009:“I was in Japan a couple weeks ago, and I was taken to a record store… One of the Mudhoney bootlegs had a picture of Matt Lukin on the front. [Ed. note: He’s presumably talking about the Australian EP pictured above.] And he’s passed out in his underwear, and in thick Sharpie, shit is drawn all over his body. Big eyebrows drawn on him; his eyeballs are drawn to be open. Across his chest it says I FUCK ARSES.“And I looked at the photo and I’m like, That was in my house and I remember that night. It was the first time that the Cosmic Psychos flew over from Australia to play American dates, right after they signed to Sub Pop for what turned out to be just the one record. But they flew over, and of course everything went nuts at the house, and Matt, to his credit, had stripped down to his underwear before he passed out—we didn’t do that to him. But once he was out, of course, all bets were off.”

Jason Finn, of Presidents of the USA/Love Battery/Skin Yard fame, explained the origin of this delightful cover image to me in 2009:

“I was in Japan a couple weeks ago, and I was taken to a record store… One of the Mudhoney bootlegs had a picture of Matt Lukin on the front. [Ed. note: He’s presumably talking about the Australian EP pictured above.] And he’s passed out in his underwear, and in thick Sharpie, shit is drawn all over his body. Big eyebrows drawn on him; his eyeballs are drawn to be open. Across his chest it says I FUCK ARSES.

“And I looked at the photo and I’m like, That was in my house and I remember that night. It was the first time that the Cosmic Psychos flew over from Australia to play American dates, right after they signed to Sub Pop for what turned out to be just the one record. But they flew over, and of course everything went nuts at the house, and Matt, to his credit, had stripped down to his underwear before he passed out—we didn’t do that to him. But once he was out, of course, all bets were off.”

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April 18th, 2011
Within 20 minutes or so, there was a TV news crew that walked right into the control room and shoved a camera in my face. My memory of this was the third question out of her mouth was, ‘Do you think Nirvana’s going to get a new lead singer?’ And I’m just like, ‘I don’t even want to talk about this right now—just get the fuck out!’ Within 15, 20 minutes, there I am on CNN, as Steve Zanderpool—they intentionally spelled my name wrong—and they had this five-second clip of me going, ‘I don’t even know if it’s him yet.’ I was kind of in denial at the time. And there I am, Steve Zanderpool. And to this day, every time I run into [Presidents of the USA’s] Jason Finn, he’s like, ‘Oh, it’s Steve Zanderpool!’
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