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CONTEST: Win an all-expenses-paid trip to the Pearl Jam destination weekend

CONTEST: Win an all-expenses-paid trip to the Pearl Jam destination weekend

TAD's Kurt Danielson on the infamous toking Clinton poster

In this excerpt from Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, ex-TAD bassist Kurt Danielson clears up the story behind this infamous TAD tour poster:

"We were dropped from Giant when were in Europe with Soundgarden. What screwed things up with Giant wasn't really the way it's been told—as being because of the poster with Clinton on it. Have you seen that poster? I don't know who did it; it was somebody in connection with the European tour. It was a black- and-white photograph of...

"Then we went to Los Angeles, and [Alice in Chains] got an apartment at the Oakwood Apartments. They..."

"Then we went to Los Angeles, and [Alice in Chains] got an apartment at the Oakwood Apartments. They wanted to know where the local strip bar was. So they went to the Tropicana, and all the strippers ended up hanging out at their apartment. They had a calendar with all the Tropicana strippers on it, and they put X's on the ones that they fucked. They had 'em all X'd out."

- producer Dave Jerden, on what Alice in Chains were up to during the making of Facelift, from the upcoming book a

Average wait between Pearl Jam studio albums: 1 year, 301 days

Unless I fucked up the math (entirely possible… OK, extremely likely), the average wait between Pearl Jam studio albums has been a little more than one year, 301 days. That average will increase when PJ's followup to Backspacer comes out: As of today, it's been one year, 316 days since that album was released. Thanks to TwoFeetThick.com for the data. Stats nerds, feel free to check my calculations.

"Ash Gray Sunday," the opening track from the...

"Ash Gray Sunday," the opening track from the Screaming Trees' newly released Last Words: The Final Recordings, now available on iTunes.

WHOAHEER AHM STILL ALIEHVE HEEEAARGHH

WHOAHEER AHM STILL ALIEHVE HEEEAARGHH

Screaming Trees' Last Words: The Final Recordings now available on iTunes

A collection of the Screaming Trees' final recordings, Last Words, is now available on iTunes. The still-defunct band now has an official website too: screamingtrees.net.

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R.I.P.: Dead nightclubs of Seattle

R.I.P.: Dead nightclubs of Seattle

Kurt Loder recalls the Courtney Love/Madonna incident at the 1995 VMAs

More MTV 30th birthday fun! Kurt Loder recalls the infamous Courtney Love/Madonna incident at the 1995 VMAs in this outtake from my upcoming book, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge.



"We were set up on the side of Radio City Music Hall, and I was talking to Madonna and something came sailing through the air, and I had no idea what it was. It was a powder compact or something, and there was this kind of garbled shouting. I was up on a platform with Madonna, and we looked...