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Trailer for the Nevermind reissue and the Live at the Paramount...

Trailer for the Nevermind reissue and the Live at the Paramount DVD

PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED PHOTO! On April 9, 1994—the day after...

PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED PHOTO! On April 9, 1994—the day after Kurt Cobain's body was found—Pearl Jam met President Clinton in the Oval Office. Learn how this historic meeting came about (and what Eddie Vedder and the president discussed in a one-on-one conversation) in the book Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, out Tuesday, September 6 (preorder here, here or here) (Photo credit: William J. Clinton Presidential Library)

Poster for a show in the Trees' hometown of Ellensburg,...

Poster for a show in the Trees' hometown of Ellensburg, Washington.

fuckyeah90sbands:Soundgarden's 4-Track Demo Tape (April 24,...

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Soundgarden's 4-Track Demo Tape (April 24, 1985)

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Krist Novoselic in the U.K. weekly Sounds, fall 1990. The...

Krist Novoselic in the U.K. weekly Sounds, fall 1990. The Muppets joke is off on two counts: 1) It's Rowlf the Dog, and 2) Animal would have made much more sense. Then again, I don't really get British humor.

Nineteen years ago today, L7 singer/guitarist Donita Sparks...

Nineteen years ago today, L7 singer/guitarist Donita Sparks tossed her used Tampax into the crowd at the U.K.'s Reading Festival, yelling, "Eat my used tampon, fuckers!" Her former bandmate Jennifer Finch remembers this menstrual moment in rock history in this excerpt from Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge:

"People were throwing mud at us when we were playing. Donita was like, 'Fuck this!' and went behind her amp and pulled out her tampon and threw it into the audience. It...

Chris Cornell, from the newly posted Soundgarden Summer 2011...

Chris Cornell, from the newly posted Soundgarden Summer 2011 Tour photo album by Don VanCleave

"I had just put my bags down in our hotel room in London and turned on MTV. I saw the video for..."

"I had just put my bags down in our hotel room in London and turned on MTV. I saw the video for 'Heart-Shaped Box.' That was the first time I'd heard the song, too. I freaked out and was like, 'I need to get ahold of Kurt right now.' Yeah, I can feel Kurt. A million miles away, and in one song. One note, one little drain of his voice, that's when I could feel it. It was a bad feeling. Like, It's either him or me. Kurt, don't. That's what I felt like. So I tried to get ahold of Kurt for our en...