Mark Yarm's Blog, page 720
December 28, 2011
Shadow's Mike McCready and Rick Friel play a reunion show...
Shadow's Mike McCready and Rick Friel play a reunion show at Seattle's Tractor Tavern last night. (Photo: © Anna Knowlden)
Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge on NPR's best music books of 2011 list
NPR's music critic and correspondent Ann Powers writes: "…I know the Pacific Northwest well enough to be mightily impressed with the truth Yarm uncovered. This exhaustive oral history features unknowns, cult figures, supporting players and stars; each gets the time he or she deserves as Yarm pieces together the arc of a scene that built itself from scratch, blossomed beyond most people's dreams, and then crashed. Yes, there are plenty of Kurt Cobain stories. But there's much more...
December 25, 2011
A holiday greeting from Pearl Jam
A holiday greeting from Pearl Jam
MERRY CHRISTMAS!Love,The Nineties
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Love,
The Nineties
December 23, 2011
I have a few questions :) Did you like/ know anything about grunge before writing the book? Are you completely sick of grunge now that you have spent so much time with it? What do you think about all of these kids on tumblr that are obsessed with grunge?
A few answers: 1) Yes 2) Sometimes, and 3) I addressed that very subject here.
do i have to buy your book ?
Yes, I'm afraid you do.
A very Thrown Ups Christmas...
In this very special holiday outtake from Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, Thrown Ups bassist Leighton Beezer tells the story of the grunge improvisers' last show before their 1991 breakup:
"The Thrown Ups' last show was my favorite one, because it was so horribly misunderstood. This was '90, it was definitely Christmas. It was at the Off Ramp, and Ed [Fotheringham] was the baby Jesus, and the band was the Three Wise Men. I was pretty psyched about it, but to really do it...
December 22, 2011
so is Mark Yarm a penname or just a coincidence?
Just a coincidence.
