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Pearl Jam perform "Search and Destroy" with Mark Arm...

Pearl Jam perform "Search and Destroy" with Mark Arm and Steve Turner of Mudhoney in Hamilton, Ontario, Thursday night. (H/T GrungeReport.net)

americanhighwayflower:WTF I'VE NEVER SEEN THIS PICTURE BEFORE...

americanhighwayflower:

WTF I'VE NEVER SEEN THIS PICTURE BEFORE IN MY LIFE AND IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL MY EYES ARE TEARING UP OMG

NOTE: This previously unpublished Alice in Chains photograph was scanned from my new book, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge. Lots more rare pics in the book!

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nirvananews:(@FooFighters):Westboro Baptist Church called for...

nirvananews:

(@FooFighters):

Westboro Baptist Church called for a picket of the Foo Fighters show in Kansas City. We had a little something up our sleeve. God Bless America.

Nirvana - "Breed," from the forthcoming Live at the...

Nirvana - "Breed," from the forthcoming Live at the Paramount DVD

lancebangs:We recovered and restored the original film...

lancebangs:

We recovered and restored the original film elements of Nirvana performing the final night of the North American "Nevermind" tour on Halloween of 1991.  I spent much of 2011 working on making a coherent concert film out of the material, and look forward to people beginning to finally see it.  Nirvana's management and label have set up broadcasts and screenings around the world in the coming weeks, prior to it being included in a 20th anniversary reissue of "Nevermind" and then a...

I'm on a panel at the Brooklyn Book Festival this Sunday (it's free!)

The panel (a Bookforum and WNYC top pick!) takes place at 2 p.m. at St. Francis Volpe Library (180 Remsen Street). And it's FREE. Details:

You Say You Want a Revolution? Music is often the voice of a generation—a touchstone for issues both personal and political, and a way for its fans to understand themselves. Mark Yarm (Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge), Marisa Meltzer (Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music) and Marcus Reeves (Somebody Scream: Rap Music's Rise to...

beatastic:buy this book:DI would like to emphasize that this...

beatastic:

buy this book
:D

I would like to emphasize that this is a completely unsolicited endorsement of my book! (No money exchanged hands, honest.)

Take the New York Times' grunge quiz

Take the New York Times' grunge quiz:

How did you score?

"Probably in the mind of Kurt Cobain, if he was still with us, he would probably think the most punk..."

"Probably in the mind of Kurt Cobain, if he was still with us, he would probably think the most punk thing would be to just reject it all. But of course, you know, he would be a multi-multi-multimillionaire at this point. So, easy for him to say."

- grunge-era photographer Charles Peterson, in today's New York Times