Everybody Loves Our Town An Oral History of Grunge

Mark Yarm

eBook - 2011

Twenty years after the release of Nirvana’s landmark album Nevermind comes Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, the definitive word on the grunge era, straight from the mouths of those at the center of it all. In 1986, fledgling Seattle label C/Z Records released Deep Six, a compilation featuring a half-dozen local bands: Soundgarden, Green River, Melvins, Malfunkshun, the U-Men and Skin Yard. Though it sold miserably, the record made music history by documenting a burgeoning regional sound, the raw fusion of heavy metal and punk rock that we now know as grunge. But it wasn’t until five years later, with the seemingly overnight success of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” that grunge became a household word and ...Seattle ground zero for the nineties alternative-rock explosion.Everybody Loves Our Town captures the grunge era in the words of the musicians,...

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Published
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Language
English
Main Author
Mark Yarm
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Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size8 GB
ISBN9780307464453
Release Date9/6/2011
Kindle Book
ISBN9780307464453
ASINB004KPM1RG
Release Date9/6/2011
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9780307464453
Release Date9/6/2011