Mark Yarm's Blog, page 788
June 13, 2011
Mike Starr's photo in his high school calendar. He was Mr....
Mike Starr's photo in his high school calendar. He was Mr. October. (Via Alice in Chains Chile/courtesy of Melinda Starr.)
June 12, 2011
Soundgarden, "Hunted Down," from the Screaming Life...
Soundgarden, "Hunted Down," from the Screaming Life EP.
"I was in the poor man's version of Dickless. When Kelly Canary left, the other girls didn't want to..."
"I was in the poor man's version of Dickless. When Kelly Canary left, the other girls didn't want to stop, so they must have hit a level of desperation and they asked me. The funnest shows were when you could provoke someone in the audience and they would get really upset. My sister had made me this wand, which I called the Herpes Wand—if I touched someone with it, they got the herpes. So at shows, I kept giving people wand herpes. Some people loved it, and some people thought it was the wors...
June 11, 2011
Mark Lanegan's cover of Nick Lowe's "The Beast...
Mark Lanegan's cover of Nick Lowe's "The Beast in Me," from The Hangover Part II soundtrack. (Though they used Johnny Cash's version in the movie itself.)
The Melvins' Buzz Osborne guests on Red Eye again
The Melvins' Buzz Osborne guests on Red Eye again:
A "worlds collide" moment for my editor, who also edited Ann Coulter's new book.
June 10, 2011
Malfunkshun: The Andrew Wood Story boxed-set cover art. Price...
Malfunkshun: The Andrew Wood Story boxed-set cover art. Price and release date still TBD. More info at the film's official Facebook page.
