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October 21, 2011
funkywe:
Release - Mookie Blaylock [Live at Off Ramp Cafe,...
Release - Mookie Blaylock [Live at Off Ramp Cafe, Seattle, WA 10.22.1990]
First song of their first show.
nirvananews:
RecordStoreDay's Black Friday will include 10"...
RecordStoreDay's Black Friday will include 10" official singles from Nevermind collected together for the first time, housed in an individually numbered slipcase.
October 20, 2011
From Cameron Crowe's WhoSay site: Just found this…...
From Cameron Crowe's WhoSay site: Just found this… Matt Dillon's hair test for Singles… 1991? (Photo © 2011 Cameron Crowe)
"I shot the making-of-the-movie thing for Singles. The best moment was the day that Matt Dillon was trying on his Eddie Vedder wig. He was assuming the role of a hybrid Eddie Vedder/Chris Cornell. We all had to go and give our opinions on 120 wigs that they pulled. I remember Matt being very insecure. You know, Matt Dillon is Matt Dillon. He doesn't wear a wig. If...
Everybody Loves Our Town Q&A/book signing at Seattle's Experience Music Project Museum!
Fuck yeah, weird-looking Frank Gehry buildings! At last, I'm doing a book event in Seattle:
WHEN: Tuesday, November 15, 2011; 7 to 10 p.m.
WHERE: Experience Music Project Museum, Seattle
WHAT: EMP Senior Curator Jacob McMurray will lead a Q&A with me about all things grunge. Afterward, I'll be signing copies of my book, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, which will be available for sale at the museum.
GET TICKETS: Via Brown Paper Tickets
Read Vanity Fair's Courtney Love profile
Vanity Fair has posted the entirety of Nancy Jo Sales' "Love in a Cold Climate" (from the November 2011 issue).
"The Music Bank was open 24 hours. You could go there and...
"The Music Bank was open 24 hours. You could go there and knock on the door at 3 in the morning and the guy that was working the keys would come, look through a peephole, let you in if you had a room there, walk you to your room, unlock it with the key—he had a huge key ring with probably 150 keys on it—and you were good to go.
"Layne [Staley] was one of the key guys, and he usually worked the graveyard shift. Jerry [Cantrell, pictured] was living in our jam room, so in the middle of the ...
October 19, 2011
flowerscrackconcrete:
Kim Gordon on a skateboard in front of...
Kim Gordon on a skateboard in front of Spinhead Studios during recording of "Made in USA" (North Hollywood, 1986)
Photo by David Markey
Brand-new video for Mudhoney's "I'm...
Brand-new video for Mudhoney's "I'm Now" (featuring footage from the forthcoming Mudhoney documentary I'm Now)
My Band T-Shirt: 28. Hole, Teenage Whore (1993)
I first became aware of Hole through a girl at school named Claire. Claire was beautiful, and funny, and popular, and I suspected that all my male friends were secretly half in love with her. I was in awe of her too, but having not yet told everyone I was gay, I wanted to be close to her for…
