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October 6, 2011
October 5, 2011
Courtney in Wonderland: In this short film by photographer Jason...
Courtney in Wonderland: In this short film by photographer Jason Bell, see how he captured the strange magic of Courtney Love's world for Vanity Fair.
It's day three of the Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge giveaway bonanza!
Don't say I never did anything for you. Click the link to enter (U.S. residents only, sorry).
Vanity Fair has posted an excerpt from its new profile of...
Vanity Fair has posted an excerpt from its new profile of Courtney Love:
The "hope chest" sits in Love's room, among stacks of papers related to "the fraud," a matter that consumes her attention whenever she isn't talking about her daughter. Love contacted Sales after reading her January Vanity Fair story on the actor Randy Quaid and his wife, Evi, who allege that they have been defrauded and targeted for murder. "They make me look sane," says Love. She hoped Sales might help her figure out...
Vote now in the Everybody Loves Our Town "name an imaginary grunge band" contest
The five finalists: Heavy Ghost, Lipgrinder, Rainier Tall Boy, Sack Blabbath, Soggy Disposition. (Winner gets a signed copy of Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge.) Click on the main link (above) to vote.
Chris Cornell performs Creedence Clearwater Revival's...
Chris Cornell performs Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Long as I Can See the Light" at an Obama fundraiser in Woodside, California, September 25. (H/T GrungeReport.net)
October 4, 2011
PM Northwest television report on the Seattle punk and new-wave...
PM Northwest television report on the Seattle punk and new-wave scenes circa 1981. Featuring the Fartz, the Refuzors, the Visible Targets, the U-Men's John Bigley and more. From a collection of rare Seattle scene YouTube videos posted by nearSeattle84. (H/T Easy Street Blog)
