Mark Yarm's Blog, page 570
March 26, 2013
March 25, 2013
Alice in Chains’ new single, “Stone”
Alice in Chains’ new single, “Stone”
"Pearl Jam: Rock Band was in development for some time as a title focused on bringing the experience..."
March 24, 2013
The Ramones’ C.J. Ramone and Soundgarden’s Ben...
The Ramones’ C.J. Ramone and Soundgarden’s Ben Shepherd in Rockingham, NC, during Lollapalooza 1996. (Photo by Rick Johnson)
"People always told me [Courtney Love] was super-difficult, and I didn’t believe them because that’s..."
March 23, 2013
Here’s the full list of Record Store Day (April 20)...
Here’s the full list of Record Store Day (April 20) releases, including records from the Flaming Lips, Mad Season,Moby & Mark Lanegan, Thurston Moore and Soundgarden, and comps from Sub Pop and Kill Rock Stars.
sugar-coma:
Kat & Courtney. The lost voices of the...
Kat & Courtney. The lost voices of the generation that never even was.
From Courtney Love’s old scrapbook (background here).
L7 with producer Butch Vig at Sound City, during the recording...
L7 with producer Butch Vig at Sound City, during the recording of Bricks Are Heavy, 1991. (Via the official L7 Facebook page) Here’s an outtake from my book, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, in which Vig discuss the events surrounding the making of the album:
BUTCH VIG (producer) L7 were amazing. The sessions at Sound City were pretty straightforward, and then we went to Smart [Studios] back in Madison for like a month to finish overdubs and mix, and they took over the town...
