Mark Yarm's Blog, page 734
November 2, 2011
John Reynolds, NJ: 28-year-old U-Men tape to surface, via Jack Endino
It's amazing to me that I haven't had great Seattle Music reading material in decades and now I'm currently juggling three Seattle history books.
"Pearl Jam Twenty", by Pearl Jam with Jonathan Cohen
- Started … mid-way through
"Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge" by…
Two Mudhoney-related albums released from archives
Read all about them at Consequence of Sound.
November 1, 2011
papermag:
Courtney Love Pill Bottle Sculpture
Artists Katie...
Courtney Love Pill Bottle Sculpture
Artists Katie Heffelfinger and Jed Miner created a found art sculpture out of 57 discarded pill bottles prescribed to Courtney Love. The pair of artists, who call themselves "occupytheartworld" found the bottles in a "common area" at a storage facility. Click HERE to see photos of the artwork.
Green River cover Bowie.
Green River cover Bowie.
"When Pearl Jam started talking about laying off on doing...
"When Pearl Jam started talking about laying off on doing interviews and stuff, I had a Modern Drummer cover already in place to be done. One of those nights on tour in Italy was when I was doin' the last interview with Modern Drummer. Kelly [Curtis, Pearl Jam's manager] said something to the effect of, 'You might just wanna lay off of that.' And my response was that I'd already committed to it. And Kelly said, 'Hopefully you're prepared to deal with the consequences.' If I had to guess at...
My Largehearted Boy Book Notes playlist for Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge
Featuring songs by Mudhoney, Soundgarden, Iggy Pop, Hole, the Butthole Surfers, the Fluid and Alice in Chains.
Stream the Flaming Lips' new 24-hour-long song (or buy the $5,000 human-skull drive)
Hear "7 Skies H3" at flaminglipstwentyfourhoursong.com. In addition, the day-long track is available for purchase on 13 limited-edition hard drives encased in actual human skulls (at $5,000 apiece).
From the Wires in the Walls Flickr account:The Sub Pop record...
From the Wires in the Walls Flickr account:
The Sub Pop record label celebrated its 20th anniversary awhile back, and as a sort of "happy birthday to us" released a free compilation CD of artists currently on the roster. Tucked inside each copy were a "SP20" sticker and a birthday card & envelope to fill out and mail back to them. Spontaneous creativity was implied, and this was my contribution. Mother Teresa in the classic "LOSER" t-shirt.
October 31, 2011
"Reassessing the Year Punk Broke," a New York...
"Reassessing the Year Punk Broke," a New York Times graphic by Andrew Kuo
fuckyeahstonegossard:
Happy Halloween everyone. My "Rocking...
Happy Halloween everyone. My "Rocking Dead" shirt arrived just in time. Hope you all have a safe and happy night
