Today, the Onion A.V. Club asks, Are oral histories a good way...

Today, the Onion A.V. Club asks,Are oral histories a good way to write about music? (My answer: definitely not as often as many writers and editors seem to think.) The piece, pegged to today’s release of Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal by my friends Jon Wiederhorn and Katherine Turman, gives a nice shout-out to my book, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge:

Everybody Loves Our Town is an oral history, and it’s about the Seattle grunge scene. It’s also a fa...