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Matt Cameron chooses Pearl Jam over Soundgarden for 2014

From Cameron’s statement:I will be taking 2014 off from Soundgarden touring due to prior...

New mural planned for downtown Aberdeen to memorialize Kurt Cobain

New mural planned for downtown Aberdeen to memorialize Kurt Cobain: ABERDEEN, Wash. - A new mural in...

Video: An Exclusive Look at Kurt Cobain’s Fender Guitars

Video: An Exclusive Look at Kurt Cobain’s Fender Guitars

Lollapalooza Chile advertisement. In related news, Soundgarden...

Lollapalooza Chile advertisement. In related news, Soundgarden are on the recently announced Lollapalooza Brazil bill, too.

Watch every time Mudhoney’s Mark Arm popped up on The...

Watch every time Mudhoney’s Mark Arm popped up on The Soupduring last week’s episode. (Thanks to Jeremy Stroud for compiling)

pixelnated:Dinosaur Jr - ‘Freak Scene’ (Radio Edit version) -...

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Dinosaur Jr - ‘Freak Scene’ (Radio Edit version) - From the rare Blast First pressing of the ‘Just Like Heaven’ Single.

Replaces ‘So Fucked’ with ‘So Whack’ and ‘Don’t let me fuck up will you’ with ‘Don’t let me freak now will you’.

The Melvins’ Buzz Osborne makes the local news. Watch...

The Melvins’ Buzz Osborne makes the local news. Watch here.

TAD (and Alice in Chains) in the pages of Kerrang! magazine....

TAD (and Alice in Chains) in the pages of Kerrang! magazine. (Via Josh Sinder)

I wrote the concluding essay for Nirvana: The Complete...

I wrote the concluding essay for Nirvana: The Complete Illustrated History, officially out this week. Other contributors include Charles R. Cross, Gillian G. Gaar, Greg Kot and Jim DeRogatis.

Check out the Indiegogo campaign for Last Box of Sparklers, a...

Check out the Indiegogo campaign for Last Box of Sparklers, a tribute to the lateMark Linkous ofSparklehorse. The album will feature Mark Lanegan, the Flaming Lips and many more. Pitchfork has posted Lanegan’s cover of “Spirit Ditch” and other already recordered contributions.