Mark Yarm's Blog, page 761
August 17, 2011
Snapshot of Times Square earlier today. The billboard message...
Snapshot of Times Square earlier today. The billboard message was part of the ongoing Pearl Jam Twenty soundtrack scavenger hunt.
"The only problem was the fins were really spiny. It was worth it for the art, though."
- former Green River singer Mark Arm, on a 1987 show he played with a dead fish down his trousers
20 years ago today: A shrouded Kurt Cobain on the set of the...
20 years ago today: A shrouded Kurt Cobain on the set of the video for "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
New, old Hollywood-style photos of Frances Bean Cobain, by...
New, old Hollywood-style photos of Frances Bean Cobain, by L.A.-based Rocky Schenck. (See another recent Frances Bean shoot, by Heidi Slimane, here.)
Pearl Jam Twenty soundtrack scavenger hunt is underway...
Use the clues… to find the locations where we are revealing the track titles of the Pearl Jam Twenty soundtrack. The track title and location where it was recorded will be revealed physically, digitally and through airwaves. If you find the track, tweet the name and location @pearljam with #PJ20. The first person to find each track title will receive a numbered Pearl Jam Twenty poster. A new clue will be revealed every half hour, so keep checking back.
Above: the clue for track 3. Go here to p...
20 years later, director Sam Bayer recounts the anarchic "Smells Like Teen Spirit" video shoot: "Kurt absolutely hated me by the end"
In this excerpt from the upcoming book Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" director Sam Bayer recalls the video's now-legendary Aug. 17, 1991 shoot:
"The kids were recruited from a Nirvana show on the Sunset Strip, and they were egging on the band, so it was kind of me versus them—and I was losing. Kurt absolutely hated me by the end. He didn't want to lip-synch the song. And I always believed that maybe his anger with me added a whole level of...
August 16, 2011
Old-school reggae artist Little Roy's version of...
Old-school reggae artist Little Roy's version of "Come as You Are," from his forthcoming Nirvana covers album, Battle for Seattle. The physical album apparently will be a U.K.-only release, but folks in the U.S. can pre-order the 10-song collection on iTunes.
(Previously: Hear Little Roy's interpretations of "Sliver" and "Dive.")
