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Pro-shot video of the Melvins' set at Hellfest 2011,...

Pro-shot video of the Melvins' set at Hellfest 2011, in Clisson, France.

Former MTV VJ Steve Isaacs on upsetting Michael Jackson, getting canned

Happy 30th birthday MTV! To mark the occasion, here's an outtake from my forthcoming book, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, in which former MTV VJ Steve Isaacs explains why he got canned.

"I got fired from MTV because there were things I clearly was not supporting on the air, and they didn't like that. I got in trouble with Michael Jackson one time, around when Dangerous had just come out. He was just super-weird, he wasn't like actual pedophile weird at that point—there...

Lukin on "Lukin": The ex-Mudhoney bassist explains the genesis of the Pearl Jam song

"Vedder had a stalker chick that would come by his house that was freaking him out. He would start to avoid his house after a while, so he would just come by my place. Vedder'd come over and we'd sit 'round the kitchen and drink and stuff. He would talk about his stalker problem a little bit, but I would just blow it off. It was just drunken talk, throwing darts, having fun. There'd be other people there, sometimes four or five of us. Just me and Eddie and our wives and mutual friends like...

The '90s: The Decade That Won't Die

The '90s: The Decade That Won't Die

I'm back...

After an excellent vacation in the Pacific Northwest (British Columbia, not Seattle), I am back. Thanks so much for my friend Gregg for overseeing the blog while I was gone. Follow him at Band Chat, where he tells me he'll be posting good shit soon. P.S.: Only five weeks till the release of the book. Pre-order now!

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Mother Love Bone

Caps from the "Baby Shoot" extra on the Malfunkshun: The Andrew Wood Story DVD. If Stone looks a little frightened, it's because the baby had already peed earlier in the photo shoot. And now she's laying on his hair. 

TAD's "Jinx," the song from 8-Way Santa that famously blew out...

TAD's "Jinx," the song from 8-Way Santa that famously blew out Bridget Fonda's car windows in the movie Singles (but sadly, is not available on its soundtrack). The video clip, featuring a cameo from Soundgarden's Chris Cornell, can be viewed here.

Have a great weekend, everybody!

Have a great weekend, everybody!

"Probably my favorite Reading [1992] memory was later on in the day. Mark Lanegan goes, 'Hey,..."

"Probably my favorite Reading [1992] memory was later on in the day. Mark Lanegan goes, 'Hey, let's go to the beer tent and get some beer!' We were walking there, and I could tell Mark was being really careful about the mud and stuff. All of the sudden, he trips on the tent wire and goes face-first. Doesn't even put out his arms—just boom, down. Head-to-toe covered in mud."

- photographer Charles Peterson (outtake from Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge)