Mark Yarm's Blog, page 455
April 3, 2014
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Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready shares his Kiss...
Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready shares his Kiss obsession and influence in his own words.
Aww, look at little Mike, dressed as Peter Criss for Halloween in 1976!
April 2, 2014
The Quietus: Courtney Love Reforms Classic Hole Line-UpCourtney...
The Quietus: Courtney Love Reforms Classic Hole Line-Up
Courtney Love has told The Quietus that she, Melissa Auf der Maur, Eric Erlandson and Patty Schemel have put aside their differences and are currently rehearsing her new material. The four musicians last recorded together on 1998’s Celebrity Skin, and disbanded in 2002.
"I started playing with Patty and Melissa and Eric, just to see how that was," Love told The Quietus. "We already played like three or four times in the last week." Love is...
Canadian alt-rockers Secret Broadcast cover Nirvana’s...
Canadian alt-rockers Secret Broadcast cover Nirvana’s “Breed”at Seattle’s Robert Lang Studios.Download their version for free here.
I spoke to Colombia’s La X Más Música radio this morning...
I spoke to Colombia’s La X Más Música radio this morning about my recentKurt Cobain cover story for Esquire Colombia and my book Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge. Listen to an archived version of the conversation (with Spanish translation) here.
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Image by Katie Marshall.
"I was thirteen when Kurt...
Image by Katie Marshall.
"I was thirteen when Kurt Cobain died, and entirely more interested in the Jurassic Park soundtrack than Nirvana. I watched the MTV coverage of his death with my mother, who sat in a recliner ignoring a novel in her lap and saying over and over that it was so sad, that it was just like Jimi Hendrix. “You’re gonna remember this,” she warned, knowing I was still too young. She grew up in the sixties, an era whose narrative lingered like the sounds of a carniv...
Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell, Lima, Peru, March 27, 2014
Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell, Lima, Peru, March 27, 2014
April 1, 2014
It would appear Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic is busy...
It would appear Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic is busy practicing for the Rock Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
funnyordie:
The Flaming Lips Sell Out
After releasing their...
After releasing their Funny Or Die–produced masterpiece, ‘Flaming Side of the Moon,’ The Flaming Lips take the only logical next step and sell out big time.
