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Look what I got via FedEx this morning!Make sure you get your...

Look what I got via FedEx this morning!

Make sure you get your own copy (with a slightly nicer cover) by pre-ordering via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders or IndieBound. In the U.K., place your pre-order at Amazon U.K. or Waterstones.

Also, please "like" the book on Facebook: facebook.com/everybodylovesourtown. And as long as I'm dumping all these links on you: I'm on Goodreads, too.

22 years ago today: Nirvana release their debut LP, Bleach

"Bleach was just another album. I thought it was a very good other album, but I thought, Here's another great record that nobody's ever gonna hear."

—from my interview with Bleach producer Jack Endino 

"That was really cathartic to me. I walked off the stage and was like, OK, that was just like 20..."

"That was really cathartic to me. I walked off the stage and was like, OK, that was just like 20 years of therapy. It was really great because it was one of those things that I've just avoided for so long. Or I tell it in a way just to get it over with, and it was really nice to be able to just tell the story in the way I wanted to tell it. I hate when things become overly historicized."

- former Bikini Kill singer Kathleen Hanna, on telling the "Smells Like Teen Spirit" title-origin story...

Avid snake lover Henry Rollins to host exotic animal series on...

Avid snake lover Henry Rollins to host exotic animal series on Nat Geo Wild.

KEXP's Grunge documentary series, episodes 7 and 8: Mother Love Bone and TAD

KEXP's Grunge documentary series, episodes 7 and 8: Mother Love Bone and TAD

popculturebrain:Foo Fighters Tour Rider Coloring Book |...

popculturebrain:

Foo Fighters Tour Rider Coloring Book | Buzzfeed

Knowing their tour rider would leak, the Foo Fighters made it Smoking Gun friendly in the form of an interactive, informative coloring book. So genius. You're going to want to click through.

MTV News coverage of Sara DeBell's Grunge Lite, Muzak...

MTV News coverage of Sara DeBell's Grunge Lite, Muzak versions of hits by Nirvana, Pearl Jam, et al.

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"On Honky, which we recorded for Amphetamine Reptile after...

"On Honky, which we recorded for Amphetamine Reptile after Atlantic didn't pick up our option, there is a tune called 'Laughing With Lucifer at Satan's Sideshow,' which seemed to epitomize the major-label experience for us, and probably a few other bands, I would imagine. The voices on this are actually the band's manager, David Lefkowitz, and a woman—I can't remember who—quoting real statements made to us by individuals in some of the higher positions at Atlantic, after Danny Goldberg had...

Haven't watched this clip in forever: "Weird...

Haven't watched this clip in forever: "Weird Al" Yankovic, "Smells Like Nirvana." Totally holds up.