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June 10, 2014
Soundgarden’s Ben Shepherd in Berlin, June 8, 2014. (Photo...
Soundgarden’s Ben Shepherd in Berlin, June 8, 2014. (Photo by Ross Halfin)
June 9, 2014
25 years ago today: Sub Pop Lamefest featuring Mudhoney, TAD...
25 years ago today:Sub Pop Lamefest featuring Mudhoney, TAD & Nirvana
June 8, 2014
Mad Season’s Mike McCready and Layne Staley, New...
Mad Season’s Mike McCready and Layne Staley, New Year’s Eve, 1994
Melvins limited-edition letterpress single covers, printed on...
Melvins limited-edition letterpress single covers, printed on vintage Life magazines. Coming soon.
June 7, 2014
"Nothing against her, but I think when you’re doing a tribute to someone that’s dead,..."
June 6, 2014
The Afghan Whigs played Letterman Wednesday night. Dave seemed...
The Afghan Whigs played Letterman Wednesday night. Dave seemed impressed, and rightfully so.
The Stranger: The Unbearable Heaviness of Being: Feeling...
The Stranger: The Unbearable Heaviness of Being: Feeling Doom-Drone Classic Earth 2's Tremors 20 Years On
THE STRANGER: What did your musician friends—particularly Kurt Cobain—think of Earth 2 when it came out?
DYLAN CARLSON: Kurt was kind of in the midst of exploding. [Laughs] Nirvana were not in town very much at that time. You never really know when you play stuff for your friends: They say they like it, but who knows? I can like people and not like their band, but a lot of people you can’t...
Billboard: Tuatara's New Album Features Peter Buck, Mike...
Billboard:Tuatara's New Album Features Peter Buck, Mike McCready; Song Premiere (Listen)
Tuatara, the long-running project led by Mad Season/Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin and rounded out by a rotating cast of all-stars that includes R.E.M.’s Peter Buck and Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready, returns for its first record in six years, Underworld. Before the the double-album opus arrives in August on Martin’s own label Sunyata Records, Billboard exclusively premieres the track “The Skeleton Getd...
