Mark Yarm's Blog, page 683
March 19, 2012
Unsane cover the Melvins' "The Bloat." (Click...
Unsane cover the Melvins' "The Bloat." (Click here for the flip side of the bands' split 7-inch, in which the Melvins cover Unsane's "Alleged.")
Today in (unpaid) celebrity endorsements: Mark McGrath of Sugar...
Today in (unpaid) celebrity endorsements: Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray/television fame, professes his love for Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge. Follow his advice and get a copy!
March 18, 2012
The Melvan failed to sell on eBay again. This time around there...
The Melvan failed to sell on eBay again. This time around there was no reserve and a minimum starting bid of $50,000.
brbnightmares:
Chelsea Fairless's 9th grade English...
Chelsea Fairless's 9th grade English notebook.
"I wonder what the guy in front of me is thinking. He has a white baseball hat on backwards so I can see the front, which has a white bulldog with bloody teeth on it. My guess is that he likes to drink beer, watch football, and dream about fucking little bulimic Wet Seal bitches. But what do I know? He could secretly be dating a dude. Maybe he writes poetry and volunteers at an animal shelter or some shit. I should know that...
"Sub Pop: Seattle: Rock City" by Everett True,...
"Sub Pop: Seattle: Rock City" by Everett True, Melody Maker, March 18, 1989 (scan by Archived Music Press)
"There's a quote of mine from the Sub Pop article that has been used more than anything else I've written, which is the earliest description of Nirvana in a British music paper—how 'They're four working-class guys from Aberdeen, blah blah blah.' What's really kind of annoying about seeing that description everywhere is, although it's attributed to me, they're not my words. I was on...
March 17, 2012
Chris Cornell of Soundgarden at UIC Pavilion in Chicago, July...
Chris Cornell of Soundgarden at UIC Pavilion in Chicago, July 16, 2011 (pic by fan photographer Brigette Sullivan)
March 16, 2012
March 15, 2012
Willie Nelson and the Supersuckers perform "Bloody Mary...
Willie Nelson and the Supersuckers perform "Bloody Mary Morning" on The Tonight Show, 1996 (H/T Seattle Weekly's Reverb)
The Melvins' onetime touring van, a.k.a. the Melvan, has...
The Melvins' onetime touring van, a.k.a. the Melvan, has been relisted on eBay, this time with no reserve (minimum starting bid is $50,000; the auction ends Sunday). That's Leland Cobain posing alongside his grandson Kurt's handiwork (the Kiss portraits). The previous auction failed to find a buyer.
Mark Lanegan Band Blues Funeral billboard
Mark Lanegan Band Blues Funeral billboard
