Grunge
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Live Review by Gerrie Lim, L.A. Weekly, 11 September 1987
IN A BUCOLIC canyon were the faithful gathered, the black-garbed and the henna-haired and the anorexic trendoids baring their nightclub tans, all earnest supplicants at ...
The Dickies, Metal MC, Pigmy Love Circus: Scream, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, L.A. Weekly, 29 July 1988
TEN YEARS of anything is a lot... usually too much. When I was younger, I worshiped the Dickies as the overlords of my conscience, wrote ...
Review by Gillian G. Gaar, The Rocket, December 1988
DOCUMENT: State of the NW scene ...
Interview by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 11 February 1989
Soundgarden are in the business of mocking metal's demonic conventions. But their humour goes hand in glove with a homage to rock heritage. Roy Wilkinson watches ...
Mudhoney: Sub Pop, Sub Normal, Subversion!
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 11 March 1989
SUDDENLY SEATTLE IS THE CENTRE OF ALL THINGS GRUNGE. EVERETT TRUE TRAVELS TO THE HOME OF THE ANTI-HITS TO MEET MUDHONEY WHO RECENTLY TRADED SONGS ...
Overview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 18 March 1989
RIGHT NOW, MUDHONEY ARE THE STANDARD BEARERS FOR SEATTLE'S NEW GENERATION OF THRASH METAL MERCHANTS, BUT THERE IS A LEGION OF OTHER BANDS READY AND ...
Mudhoney: Psycho Dirtbag Blowout
Interview by Pat Blashill, Spin, April 1989
MARK ARM and Steve Turner are the Mutt and Jeff of distortion. He's Super Fuzz, I'm Big Muff, they'll say. Fuzz and Muff work for ...
Tad: God's Balls (Sub Pop SP27) ****
Review by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 6 May 1989
WOODCUTTERS IN rock are few. Jethro Tull may have written an album about 'Songs From The Wood' and Fish chopped logs prior to Marillion, but ...
Mudhoney: Angels With Muddy Faces
Interview by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 13 May 1989
MUDHONEY's music is a wild thing — garage grunge and Iggy-style abandon. In person they're mild-mannered, middle class Americans with a hopeless addiction to Sham 69 ...
Soundgarden: 'Kashmir — I Always Thought It Was A Type Of Sweater'
Interview by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 13 May 1989
SOUNDGARDEN's mutant rock springs from a post-punk mentality planted deep in trad metal. ROY WILKINSON watches them break the mould, and snaps the sonic diggers ...
Soundgarden: Washington State University, Pullman WA
Live Review by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 13 May 1989
America's garden culture ...
Mudhoney, Soundgarden: School of African and Oriental Studies, London
Live Review by Push, Melody Maker, 20 May 1989
THERE'S NO containing the capricious belligerence of Seattle's Soundgarden. Vocalist Chris Cornell — part monkey, part Adonis and all of a doodah — is stripped ...
Screaming Trees: Buzz Factory (SST)
Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 20 May 1989
SCREAMING TREES' last album, Invisible Lantern, curdled my milk of human kindness two months ago with its lacklustre production and half-hearted nods to the Sixties. ...
Mudhoney: Put Mud In The Music
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 27 May 1989
Thanks to an extensive European tour, a vinyl collaboration with Sonic Youth and their own indie-chart hit LP, Seattle's MUDHONEY find themselves the latest US ...
Soundgarden: The Mutate Gallery
Profile and Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 10 June 1989
EVERETT TRUE MEETS THE MOST AGGRESSIVE METAL MARAUDERS TO ESCAPE FROM THE SUB POP LABEL, WHOSE NEW SINGLE, 'FLOWER', SOUNDS LIKE DAS DAMEN COVERING BIG ...
Nirvana: Bleach (Sub Pop import US LP only)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 8 July 1989
REAL ROCK music should hurt. Like being too near an exploding plate glass window, it should get under your skin and cause you to writhe ...
Review by Push, Melody Maker, 19 August 1989
STONED, LOADED. It's both a mental and a physical bliss. Everything is nothing but an abandoned blur. Minutes away from a blackout, from a sweet, ...
Nirvana, Tad: Hard On: Nirvana and Tad
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 2 September 1989
This week EDWIN POUNCEY gets on the trail of Sub Pop, the label that brought you Mudhoney and who are about to unleash the ungodly ...
Soundgarden: Sex and Guns and Rock 'N' Roll
Report and Interview by Push, Melody Maker, 7 October 1989
"WE SIGNED WITH A&M about eight months ago, at around the same time our Ultramega OK album was released by SST. We'd been talking to ...
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 21 October 1989
Everett True Thrashes It Out With The Latest Wizards From Seattle's Sub Pop Label Who Arrive In Britain Next Week ...
Profile and Interview by John Robb, Sounds, 21 October 1989
Natural descendants of Mudhoney and Dinosaur Jr, Nirvana are a high energy explosion resulting in a trail of smashed gear and beat anthems. John Robb ...
Profile and Interview by John Robb, Sounds, 21 October 1989
Watch out! A mean American storm is heading your way in the shape of the shit-stained rock beast, Tad. And teaming up with Nirvana for ...
Mudhoney: Mudhoney (Glitterhouse)
Review by Push, Melody Maker, 28 October 1989
THE BLITZ PARADE ...
Soundgarden: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 9 December 1989
Moody Soundgarden Gets a Lift From Cornell's Voice at Whisky ...
Nirvana, Tad: Tad, Nirvana: Astoria, London
Live Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 16 December 1989
"CHECK!... CHECK!..." This is one little improvisation that the fans freezing outside were missing as Sub Pop stalwarts Nirvana struggled valiantly to balance the sound ...
The Melvins: Melvins: Ozma (Tupelo TUPLP 7)****
Review by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 20 January 1990
The perfect kiss-off ...
Soundgarden, Voivoid: Voivoid: Totally Wired
Profile by RJ Smith, L.A. Weekly, 1 March 1990
Voivod's cyberpunk rock ...
The Melvins: Melvins: Ozma (Boner advance tape, import) KKKK
Review by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 3 March 1990
I WAS recently discussing, with Bill Ward, how sad it is that everything recorded these days is stuffed choc full of gizmotry and is often ...
Nirvana, Screaming Trees, Tad: Screaming Trees, Nirvana, Tad: Pine Street Theatre, Portland, OR
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 3 March 1990
IT SEEMS incredible people still miss the point of Tad. Most (heavy) rock bands play for the sheer hell of it, and, sure Tad do ...
Screaming Trees: Fulham Greyhound, London
Live Review by Keith Cameron, Sounds, 10 March 1990
And also the trees ...
Nirvana, Tad: Tad and Nirvana: The Larder They Come
Report and Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 17 March 1990
This was a tour not for the faint-hearted. Everett True witnesses the chaos & carnage caused by Tad & Nirvana as they rampaged through the ...
Mother Love Bone's Andrew Wood
Report by Christine Natanael, Rock Scene, May 1990
THIS COLUMN is begun in an extremely serious and somber mood, as the wings of the great black naughty nightbird death have come beating and ...
Live Review by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, 23 June 1990
WEIGHT WATCHING ...
Mudhoney, Thee Headcoats: Mudhoney: Dirty Deeds Done Cheap
Interview by Damon Wise, Sounds, 30 June 1990
Shorn of their luxurious locks, Mudhoney have not only shattered their hairy, hard rockin' image but one of them also owns up to eating cake, ...
Mudhoney: Dweeb Will, Dweeb Will Rock You!
Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 7 July 1990
Diseased drugvom and dogs! MUDHONEY cut through STEVEN WELLS' spunk encrusted C60 to give us the bald and rotting bare facts about the inadequacy of ...
Silverfish, Soundgarden: Soundgarden, Silverfish: Astoria, London
Live Review by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 14 July 1990
HEAVY PLANT LIFE IN THE GARDEN ...
Silverfish, Soundgarden, Swervedriver: Soundgarden, Silverfish, Swervedriver: Astoria, London
Live Review by Barbara Ellen, New Musical Express, 21 July 1990
ARRIVING HALF way through Swervedriver's set I canter expectantly to the front hungry for my first encounter with Thrash Metal Sub Hardcore Pop Noise. I ...
The Melvins, Mudhoney: Mudhoney, the Melvins: Hollywood Live, Hollywood CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 1990
Mudhoney's Roar of Confusion ...
Crazy Horse, Neil Young: Neil Young and Crazy Horse: Ragged Glory (WEA LP/Cassette/CD)
Review by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 15 September 1990
YOUNG'S BREW ...
Alice In Chains, Mother Love Bone, The Posies: A Seattle Slew
Report and Interview by Dave DiMartino, Rolling Stone, 20 September 1990
Record companies are flocking to the Great Northwest, signing bands like crazy and hoping to find the Next Big Thing ...
Crazy Horse, Neil Young: Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Ragged Glory (Reprise)
Review by Dave DiMartino, Musician, October 1990
The Force of the Horse: Neil Young & Crazy Horse Triumphant ...
Live Review by Keith Cameron, Sounds, 13 October 1990
The American Uncivil War ...
Nirvana: Take The Money and Run
Interview by Keith Cameron, Sounds, 27 October 1990
If any of the US underground bands are likely to break through into the mainstream, then it's got to be NIRVANA. Currently being courted by ...
Interview by Push, Melody Maker, 15 December 1990
NIRVANA'S NEW single, 'Sliver' weighs in at a fraction over two minutes and is one hell of a pop song. No messing. ...
Tad: 8 Way Santa (Sub Pop) ***
Review by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 9 March 1991
TAD, MAD & DANGEROUS TO KNOW ...
Tad: Mad, Tad and Dangerous to Know!!
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 23 March 1991
With a new LP 8-Way Santa ready to shred your eardrums at any moment, TAD are back with a vengeance. It might be a dangerous ...
Helmet, Tad: Tad, Helmet: Kennel Klub, San Francisco
Live Review by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 30 March 1991
HONESTLY, THEY looked like nerds up there. White boys not unlike those little Beasties in appearance, yet from their instruments came a hellishly heavy din. ...
Tad: Powerhaus, Islington, London
Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 11 May 1991
THE LARDER THEY COME... ...
Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 11 May 1991
Tubby, or not tubby? Erm...tubby actually. TAD may not be the biggest band around, but they're certainly the biggest band around (the middle). In full combat gear, STEVEN ...
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 15 June 1991
CALIFORNIAN band HOLE sit around my Hollywood hotel room in various degrees of drunkenness. ...
Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 24 August 1991
IF YOU want a creative and intellectually stimulating evening, go seek out RW Fassbinder's The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant. Mudhoney are experts at ...
Soundgarden: Fertile Ground: Soundgarden
Profile and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 25 August 1991
MIXING ENGINEER Ron St. Germain stands at a tape machine in a Tarzana studio, twisting the reels by hand until he creates the perfect space ...
Interview by Pippa Lang, Metal Hammer, September 1991
Is this the age of the meaningless lyric? Or simply a case of overzealous teen spirit? Seattle's latest vigilantes, Nirvana, attempt to answer budding Nirvana-ette ...
Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 21 September 1991
We're talking sublime here. NIRVANA are the greatest band to emerge from the American post-hardcore meltdown since Sonic Youth, they sound nothing like Hüsker Dü ...
Smashing Pumpkins: Pumpkin Iron
Interview by Cathi Unsworth, Melody Maker, 21 September 1991
SMASHING PUMPKINS look set to continue the trail-blazing guitar magic first pioneered by Jane's Addiction. CATHI UNSWORTH discovers why the Chicago-based band think Prince should ...
Soundgarden: Badmotorfinger (A&M/All formats)
Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 21 September 1991
TWO YEARS ago, Seattle's Soundgarden were poised for a big-time putsch very similar to Nirvana's impending success story. A&M had spotted the obvious sales potential ...
Soundgarden: Daylight Shrubbery
Interview by Push, Melody Maker, 5 October 1991
With their Badmotorfinger LP being hailed as a classic, SOUNDGARDEN tell PUSH that this is their time ...
Soundgarden: Badmotorfinger (A&M)
Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 13 October 1991
Soundgarden Stomps and Soars ...
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 28 October 1991
A Potent 'Rock for Choice' at Palace ...
Hole: Camden Underworld, London
Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, November 1991
YOU KNOW WHEN you're feeling elated, lost in wonder, not out of your cranium but wondering why there seem to be continents on the moon, ...
Nirvana: National Theatre, Kilburn
Live Review by Ben Thompson, Independent on Sunday, November 1991
WHEN NIRVANA appeared at the Reading Festival earlier this summer, they were just one more obscure American underground rock trio with a good LP and ...
Nirvana: Station To Devastation
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 2 November 1991
On their recent European tour, Seattle's masters of chaos, Nirvana, managed to set their tour bus alight, upset the Pogues and The Ramones, piss into ...
Interview by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 23 November 1991
From out of Nowhere, California, to topping the English independent charts and headlining London, HOLE have been one of the year's most talked-about bands. A laughable hangover of the post-Sub Pop ...
Review by Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 24 November 1991
NIRVANA'S VERTIGINOUS ascent to stardom has to be the year’s most surprising success story. The single ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ has been in heavy rotation ...
Review by Ira Robbins, Rolling Stone, 28 November 1991
DESPITE THE hand-wringing the fanzines do each time an indie-rock hero signs a major-label deal, righteous postpunk stars from Hüsker Dü to Soundgarden have joined ...
Hole: Whole Lotta Love: Hole: Camden Underworld, London
Live Review by Sally Margaret Joy, Melody Maker, 30 November 1991
WHAT THE F*** is happening now? ...
Soundgarden: Blowing Eardrums And Blowing Minds: Soundgarden
Profile and Interview by Christine Natanael, Reflex, December 1991
GNASHING, SUBTERRANEAN youth culture on the verge of intellectual upheaval, coming to awareness in late '70s decadence, and coming of age in the post-anarcho-punk revolution, ...
Nirvana: Kilburn National, London
Live Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, December 1991
THE ONLY EXPLANATION is that a lot of people didn't realise how angry and alienated they really were. Once in a blue moon, a group ...
Nirvana: Smells Like A Sensation
Profile by Simon Reynolds, The Observer, 8 December 1991
NIRVANA ARE THE sensation of 1991. Their single ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ shot straight into the UK Top Ten and is now number seven after ...
Nirvana: 'Nevermind' — The Bolognese!
Report and Interview by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 21 December 1991
THE RAIN-sodden streets of Muggia (a secluded town in Northern Italy that acts as the border with civil war-torn Yugoslavia) are seemingly empty. Nirvana bass ...
Soundgarden: Nitro Grunge From Garage Heaven
Interview by Mark Petracca, Cover, January 1992
SO THERE I was in all my silly repute. Yet another late night rock and roll escapade. Same setup: Introduce the magazine, ask some questions, ...
Overview by Keith Cameron, Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 4 January 1992
It's the dawning of a new earache! Jakki Brambles is playing Daisy Chainsaw! Your parents have heard of Nirvana! Geffen are chasing Mudhoney! Madonna's into ...
Interview by Cathi Unsworth, Melody Maker, 25 January 1992
Inspired by the boundless, new American rock of Nirvana and Soundgarden, PEARL JAM explain to CATHI UNSWORTH why their primitive approach is the way to ...
Pearl Jam: Mike McCready Gets His Feet Wet
Interview by Mike Mettler, Guitar Player, February 1992
"IT RAINS all the time, so you're always inside." Mike McCready laughs; the lead guitarist for Pearl Jam is trying to explain why Seattle is ...
Review by Deborah Frost, The Village Voice, 4 February 1992
COURTNEY LOVE is scary. Much scarier than the witches old (Macbeth's, say) and new (Lydia Lunch, say) whom she occasionally sounds like and whom she ...
Nirvana: Smells like... Bullshit
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 8 February 1992
Nevermind has been at Number One on the Kerrang! Album Chart for a month. Stateside it's the same plus Double Platinum, and worldwide the video ...
Interview by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 20 February 1992
Like Nirvana and Jane's Addiction before them, PEARL JAM look set to become this year's big US rock event. With Top 20 single 'Alive', they've ...
Nirvana: Bleach (Tupelo/All formats); Hormoaning (Japanese CD only)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 7 March 1992
WHAT'S ON offer here are Nirvana's (bleached) roots, a raw-throated and perhaps over-fussy sounding debut LP that would eventually spawn a phenomenon. Bleach – with ...
Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 14 March 1992
PROBLEM: A man knocks on the door of a Manchester hotel room and hands me a note which says: "Band been held up at knife-point. ...
Nirvana: Smells Like Chlorine Spirit
Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 21 March 1992
IT'S 9AM IN Tacoma and Nirvana bassist Chris Novoselic has just got up. He's got things to do, cats to feed, a house to move ...
Soundgarden: Camden Underworld, London
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 21 March 1992
CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP, swallow swallow grimace. The sound of a music journalist eating his own words. Good job my writing's normally so tasteful. Yum. Gobble ...
Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 28 March 1992
Don't be fooled by the lighter side of award-winning (and not-the-female-Nirvana) LA grunge gals L7 – they may delight in the trash aesthetic of Hollywood, ...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 4 April 1992
Life for Seattle grungemeisters SOUNDGARDEN has changed dramatically in the last 12 months. Going from self-confessed underdogs to playing arenas to crowd hysteria while supporting Guns N' ...
Report and Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 4 April 1992
LIFE FOR SEATTLE grungemeisters Soundgarden has changed dramatically in the last 12 months. Going from self-confessed underdogs to playing arenas to crowd hysteria while supporting ...
Live Review by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 10 April 1992
A night of body contact with Pearl Jam ...
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 11 April 1992
L7: THE FIRST artistically-credible female heavy metalists, or rock vixens with more decibels than sense? The question divided the electorate at Thursday's sold out show. ...
Soundgarden: Whole Allotment O'Love
Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 11 April 1992
Sweet soil music! Somewhere between the excess of Heavy Metal and the austerity of alternative rock — in Seattle, in other words — lie SOUNDGARDEN, ...
Nirvana: Inside the Heart and Mind of Kurt Cobain
Interview by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 16 April 1992
FOR NOW, Kurt Cobain and his new wife Courtney Love, live in an apartment in Los Angeles's modest Fairfax district. The living room holds little ...
Green River, The Melvins, Mudhoney, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Supersuckers: Seattle: Grunge City
Report and Interview by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 16 April 1992
For real rockers Seattle is the ultimate wet dream. By Michael Azerrad ...
Soundgarden: Horticulture-Shock
Interview by Cathi Unsworth, Melody Maker, 6 June 1992
Soundgarden provide proof positive that you can be a successful metal band without being sexist and racist dickheads. Seattle's finest have already conquered the US ...
Live Review by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 18 June 1992
L7 — on the go, but in gray zone ...
Soundgarden: "I Get It A Lot, That Paranoid Feeling"
Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 20 June 1992
And SOUNDGARDEN'S charismatic singer CHRIS CORNELL ain't talking about those ever-present Black Sabbath comparisons either. He might not be the new Ozzy Osbourne, argues PAUL ...
The Lemonheads: It's A Shame About Ray
Review by Sally Margaret Joy, Melody Maker, 26 June 1992
WHAT DO THE Lemonheads want from you? Unlike Nirvana, who want to raise your awareness, or Buffalo Tom, who want you to feel the hurt, ...
Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam: Pearl Jam: Pump up the 'Jam
Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 27 June 1992
12 months ago PEARL JAM were just another Seattle band. Singer EDDIE VEDDER had arrived from San Diego, guitarist STONE GOSSARD and bassist JEFF AMENT ...
Kurt Cobain, Nirvana: Kurt Cobain: I'm Not Gonna Crack!
Profile and Interview by Michael Azerrad, Vox, July 1992
Poisoned by the chalice of instant success, bedridden with road-rash after a ton of amp-smashingly intense gigs – what's happened to Nirvana's tortured singer and ...
Nirvana: 'In My Head, I'm So Ugly'
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 18 July 1992
In the frankest and most comprehensive interview he's given since Nevermind blasted Nirvana into the rock super league, Kurt Cobain talks to EVERETT TRUE in ...
Report and Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 18 July 1992
Smells like (oh yes) caffeine spirit! Brash, thrashy, bursting with attitude, irony and a shameless desire to make a mint out of countless 'intellectual redneck' ...
Nirvana: Come As You Aren’t: Nirvana at Isle Of Calf Festival, Oslo
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 25 July 1992
THEY DON'T DESERVE THIS. Forget any reports you may have heard that rock is alive and kicking. The world’s only credible arena rock band is ...
Nirvana: Crucified by Success?
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 25 July 1992
In the second part of his exclusive NIRVANA interview, Everett True meets the band in Stockholm and finds Kurt Cobain, Chris Novoselic and Dave Grohl ...
Live Review by Ben Thompson, Independent on Sunday, August 1992
BY THE LAST day of the Reading Festival, the physical conditions have reverted to type. Soggy survivors cluster on little islands dotted between enormous mud ...
Nirvana: Nirva Mind The Bollocks
Interview by John Robb, Siren, August 1992
JESUS H. CHRIST! This is turning into some sort of modern-day fable. Out there, an uncompromised riffola outfit from an arse end of the US, ...
Babes In Toyland: A Fête Worse Than Death
Report and Interview by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 15 August 1992
Rumble rumble rumble... whizz "WHAAAAHH!"And that's just listening to the new BABES IN TOYLAND album, long before EDWIN POUNCEY went anywhere near a rollercoaster with ...
Mudhoney: In Seattle there is? Mudhoney
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 22 August 1992
NIRVANA may have niched the sales, Soundgarden may have filched the fans, Pearl Jam may have plundered the plaudits but if you really wanna get ...
Babes in Toyland: Pieces Of Hate: Babes In Toyland: Fontanelle (Southern/All formats)
Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 22 August 1992
JUST AS THE word "love" is now virtually meaningless, its intensity sapped by decades of everyday misuse, so too has "hate" become an emotion too ...
Nirvana: Love Will Tear Us Apart
Report and Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 29 August 1992
As Nevermind zoomed past Bono & Jacko, so the rumours started: Kurt Is Dead ...Kurt & Courtney & heroin ...As the bulldozers continue to gather ...
Nirvana: Reading Festival, Berkshire
Live Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 3 September 1992
The sights, sounds, smells: Andy Gill reviews Nirvana in the mud at the Reading Festival ...
Babes in Toyland: Marquee, London
Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 5 September 1992
SHRIEK LIKE A CHILD ...
Screaming Trees: Powerhaus, Islington, London
Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 12 September 1992
THOSE OF the opinion that rock 'n' roll is a soft option are advised to cast a cynical glance at the Screaming Trees. Singer Mark ...
Screaming Trees: Bark Psychotics
Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 19 September 1992
Are these guys for arboreal? Nursing an enviable collection of broken bones, SCREAMING TREES are pulling away from their Seattle roots and branching out into ...
Profile and Interview by Martin Aston, Q, October 1992
SEATTLE, IN the top left-hand corner of America, is famous for its once-thriving post-war aerospace industry, for its breweries and coffee, pine forests and clean ...
Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 24 October 1992
AFTER ALL the earache, the broken promises, the mad mullahs chasing after dollar signs and the sheer Zen apathy of the times we're dying through... ...
Nirvana: Reading Festival, England
Live Review by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 29 October 1992
"FUCK WOODSTOCK," read one popular T-shirt here, although this twentieth annual jamboree also began with lots of wasted folks frolicking in the mud and ended ...
Review by Keith Cameron, Vox, January 1993
THE TITLE could be a swipe at the legions of bootleggers, whose unwelcome attention Nirvana attracted the moment they attained superstar status. In fact, this ...
Report and Interview by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 7 January 1993
After a successful European summer tour and a sold-out show at the mammoth 45,000-seat Velez Sarsfield Stadium, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, what has the world's ...
Mudhoney, Pavement: 45rpm Singles: Seven Inches of Pleasure
Report by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 4 February 1993
For bands and fans, the single is the new format of choice ...
Screaming Trees: The Lost Boys
Profile and Interview by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 18 February 1993
IT IS THE second of a pair of Seattle homecoming shows that close their tour with Alice in Chains, and Screaming Trees are well into ...
Nirvana: Never Mind The Bullets
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 27 February 1993
Deep in the woods of Minnesota, a sleepy CHRIS NOVOSELIC is just finishing a major magazine article on the Bosnian/Croatian conflict, while Steve Albini helps ...
Alice in Chains: Misery loves company
Report and Interview by Ann Powers, Spin, March 1993
Part heavy-metal heroes, part doomsday demons, Seattle's Alice in Chains turned desolation into dollars with their second album, Dirt. Ann Powers finds that success isn't ...
Stone Temple Pilots: Underworld, London
Live Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 15 March 1993
Already on the runway ...
The Breeders, The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, L7, Nirvana: Nirvana: Cobain't That Peculiar
Report and Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 24 April 1993
Last week, Nirvana, L7, The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy and The Breeders staged a massive benefit for Bosnia at San Francisco's Cow Palace. Everett True ...
Nirvana: Cow Palace, San Francisco
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 1 May 1993
LET'S GO BACK a few years. Rock – as an innovative and thus creative form – is dead. I'll temper that. Rock, as created by ...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 15 May 1993
Alice In Chains are exploding! With two killer new tracks in the can and a major slot on the upcoming Lollapalooza tour lined up, the ...
Nirvana: Incesticide (Geffen Records)
Review by Ian Christe, Warp, June 1993
ORIGINALLY INTENDED for release by their former label under the name Cash Cow, this collection of fifteen tight and tuneful Nirvana rarities has one of ...
Kurt Cobain, The Melvins: The Melvins: Slacking Toward Platinum
Report and Interview by Evelyn McDonnell, L.A. Weekly, 17 June 1993
The Melvins and Kurt are asleep at the wheel of fortune ...
Kurt Cobain, Nirvana: Kurt Cobain (1993)
Interview by Jon Savage, Rock's Backpages audio, 22 July 1993
Childhood in Aberdeen WA; 'Teen Spirit' and making it; Courtney Love and marriage; drugs and the stresses of success; Vig vs Albini; that notorious MTV Awards incident – it's pretty much all here.
File format: mp3; file size: 96.7mb, interview length: 1h 45' 35" sound quality: ****
Stone Temple Pilots/Butthole Surfers/Flaming Lips: Polish-American Beach Club, Gardner, MA.
Live Review by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 2 August 1993
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS singer Scott Weiland had warned the young, aggressively moshing, object-throwing crowd Saturday on the grounds of the Polish-American Beach Club. "We want ...
Nirvana: Beyond The Thrash-hold Of Cobain: Nirvana: Roseland Ballroom, New York
Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 7 August 1993
IT'S DEAFENING. Thurston Moore has his fingers in his ears. Lee Ranaldo's son Cody is wearing ear muffs. Even Courtney Love looks a little taken ...
Review by Ian Christe, Alternative Press, September 1993
JUST WHAT THESE overambitious bastards are attempting this time is anybody’s guess. Having severed their ties with practically everyone in the Chicago underground who ...
Screaming Trees, Soul Asylum: Soul Asylum, Screaming Trees: Greek Theatre, Berkeley CA
Live Review by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 18 September 1993
Seeking Asylum... ...
Nirvana: The Boys Are Back In Town
Interview by Dave Thompson, Alternative Press, October 1993
Go ahead. Hate this band, it's the cool thing to do. The punk rockers hate them because they've "sold out"; the mainstream hates them because ...
Nirvana: Winners Get Scars, Too
Book Excerpt by Michael Azerrad, Vox, October 1993
Nirvana's meteoric rise was a classic example of the American Dream in action — until heroin turned it into a nightmare for singer Kurt Cobain. ...
Nirvana: Territorial Pissings: The Battles Behind Nirvana's New Album
Report and Interview by Michael Azerrad, Musician, October 1993
KURT COBAIN has found that being a professional rock musician is not quite what he imagined when he was banging out his raunchy punk rock ...
Profile and Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 2 October 1993
Once, MELVINS were the loudest, heaviest and slowest band on the Pacific West Coast, loved by few, feared by many. For years, they devastated audiences ...
Babes In Toyland: Forum, London
Live Review by Ngaire Ruth, Melody Maker, 2 October 1993
TOYS R U.S. ...
Pearl Jam: 'You, My Son, Are Weird!'
Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, November 1993
They’ve a singer, Eddie Vedder, who makes Lou Reed look like a happy-go-lucky bloke; they’re vilified in the press and manically suspicious of The Biz. ...
Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream
Review by Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 14 November 1993
THIS MAJOR-LABEL debut by the Smashing Pumpkins recently shot straight onto the Billboard chart at No. 10, partially justifying the industry hype about the Chicago ...
Nirvana: Coliseum, New York NY
Live Review by Deborah Frost, New York Daily News, 16 November 1993
Nirvana Reaches Nirvana ...
Seven Year Bitch: 7 Year Bitch: A Vindication of the Rights of Bitches
Report and Interview by Sara Scribner, L.A. Weekly, 25 November 1993
7 Year Bitch know nice girls finish last ...
Smashing Pumpkins: Life After Gish: Smashing Pumpkins Play Their Generation's Blues
Report and Interview by Gerrie Lim, BigO, December 1993
SO THIS IS Generation X, I'm musing to myself in the lobby of the Hollywood Palladium, as I contemplate the horde of kids who have ...
Pearl Jam: Warfield Theatre, San Francisco
Live Review by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 9 December 1993
THERE WAS NOTHING pedestrian about the first show of the Pearl Jam tour. ...
The Germs, Nirvana: Nirvana: Lounge Act!
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 11 December 1993
Forget all the bullshit! Forget the scandal! This is the real NIRVANA! Mellow! Happy! And capable of lounging Stateside arenas without baulking! In a Big K! exclusive, ...
The Breeders, Nirvana: Kurt Cobain and Kim Deal: Sleepless In Seattle
Report and Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 25 December 1993
For a concert spectacular to be broadcast worldwide on New Year's Eve, MTV went to Seattle, where they'd but together a bill featuring Cypress Hill ...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 8 January 1994
They're buddies of Kiss' Gene Simmons, and Kurt Cobain! They're fans of Venom and Judas Priest! And they rock hard! They are MELVINS! STEFFAN CHIRAZI worships the new Metal Gods! ...
Live Review by Sara Scribner, L.A. Weekly, 13 January 1994
"UH, DO you like to rock?" Kurt Cobain asked the audience in a wimpy voice and slack-kneed stance. His chatty, I'm-one-of-you-guys, ongoing banter with the ...
Alice In Chains: Jar Of Flies (Columbia/All Formats)
Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 15 January 1994
BORED OF THE FLIES ...
Hole, Courtney Love, Nirvana: Courtney Love: Hole in One
Interview by Caitlin Moran, Melody Maker, 19 February 1994
Hole are, to all intents and purposes, Courtney Love. And Courtney Love is a one-woman spite factory, spewing out bile and savaging anyone who dares ...
Kurt Cobain, Nirvana: Kurt Cobain: Revolutionary Debris
Comment by Eric Weisbard, Spin, April 1994
I STILL prefer to believe that Kurt Cobain's life was saved by rock'n'roll. ...
Hole: If you know a better Hole, go to it
Interview by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 8 April 1994
Caitlin Moran prostrates herself before the godlike genius of rock's angry young woman Courtney Love (Mrs Cobain to the rest of us) ...
Kurt Cobain: Cobain carried his demons on ride to the top
Obituary by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 10 April 1994
HIS CUTTING-EDGE band brought punk rock ideals and alternative music to the American mainstream. He was a millionaire and a provocateur. He should have been ...
Live Review by Andrew Smith, The Guardian, 13 April 1994
HENDRIX'S line, when tuning his instrument between songs, used to be, "Hey, only cowboys stay in tune." The post-grunge equivalent of this, as articulated by ...
Kurt Cobain, Nirvana: Kurt Cobain: Nirvana just wasn't enough
Obituary by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 15 April 1994
What do you do when your dreams come true, and they're not quite like you planned? For Kurt Cobain, the pain of fame became too ...
Kurt Cobain, Nirvana: Kurt Cobain: "We Just Cannot Realise How Troubled This Soul Was..."
Comment by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 16 April 1994
I FIRST MET Kurt Cobain on the night of December 3, 1989. His band had been on the road for weeks, touring the European toilet ...
Nirvana: Kurt Cobain: I Hate Myself And I Want To Die
Obituary by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, 16 April 1994
AND SO, to quote his mother, the only person who appears to have been actively concerned about his well-being in the last few days of ...
Kurt Cobain, Nirvana: Kurt Cobain: Sound of silence
Comment by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 18 April 1994
Adam Sweeting explains how the media didn't react to the significance of Kurt Cobain's death. ...
Buffalo Tom, Kurt Cobain, The Lemonheads: The Lemonheads: Come On Feel The Suedehead
Report and Interview by John Harris, New Musical Express, 7 May 1994
EVAN DANDO has been marketed as teen sex symbol, scagged out hippy doper and serious artiste, but now THE LEMONHEADS' main squeeze is trying to ...
The Melvins, Napalm Death: Melvins, Napalm Death: Garage, London
Live Review by Ian Fortnam, New Musical Express, 21 May 1994
THIS MUCH we know: having long since rejected such trifling notions as tunes, melody and coherent vocals, Napalm Death have concentrated their efforts on creating ...
Nirvana: Kurt Cobain 1967-1994
Obituary by Nick Kent, MOJO, June 1994
NIRVANA SINGER AND SONGWRITER. THE FIRST TRUE ROCK AND ROLL STAR OF THE NINETIES. ...
Nirvana: Revolutionary Debris: Kurt Cobain
Comment by Eric Weisbard, Spin, June 1994
I STILL PREFER to believe that Kurt Cobain's life was saved by rock'n'roll. I picture him wearing his favorite T-shirt, the one with the image ...
Nirvana: Live Through This: a year on the road with Nirvana
Obituary by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 2 June 1994
LAST SPRING, Kurt Cobain sat at his kitchen table at 3 a.m., chain-smoking and toying with one of the medical mannequins he collected. "It's hard ...
The Lemonheads: Lemonheads: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 19 June 1994
HOW HAS EVAN Dando managed to survive the Russian roulette games and hoop-jumping required of a heart-throb by the shark-infested music industry? How does he ...
Stone Temple Pilots: Scott Weiland: Fighter Pilot
Interview by William Shaw, Details, July 1994
Let he who is without grunge cast the first Stone Temple Pilot. William Shaw breaks bread and beer bottles with future heavyweight contender Scott Weiland. ...
Hole, Mother Love Bone, Nirvana: Rock 'N' Roll Suicide?
Report by Paul Elliott, Pete Makowski, Kerrang!, 9 July 1994
Seattle's heroin nightmare continues. First ANDY WOOD of the seminal MOTHER LOVE BONE overdosed and died. Then KURT COBAIN ended his desperate addiction by committing ...
Stone Temple Pilots: Purple (Atlantic)
Review by Chuck Eddy, L.A. Weekly, 4 August 1994
AFTER ONE of my brother-in-law's Thursday-night poker games, the 20-somethings there played Pearl Jam's first album repeatedly until people got tired of it. So they ...
Meat Puppets, Nirvana: Nirvana: Unplugged In New York (Geffen/All formats)
Review by John Harris, New Musical Express, 29 October 1994
WAKE OF FIRE ...
Nirvana: Postcard From The Edge: Nirvana: Unplugged In New York (Geffen)
Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 29 October 1994
When Nirvana embarked upon MTV's Unplugged session last year, no one dreamed it would be their last-ever album. Now, handicapped as it is by the ...
Veruca Salt: American Thighs (Minty Fresh)
Review by Eric Weisbard, Spin, November 1994
THE FACT THAT Veruca Salt sounds as if it was designed in Chicago by a marketing focus group doesn't eradicate its virtues. ...
Hole, Veruca Salt: Mississippi Nights, St Louis, MO
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 19 November 1994
SWEET'N'SOUR ...
Pearl Jam: Mo' Vedder Blues: Pearl Jam: Vitalogy (Epic)
Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 26 November 1994
NOSTALGIA MIGHT BE the last refuge of the scoundrel, but is it too late to turn back the clock? Can we return to a time ...
Nirvana: Unplugged In New York (Geffen GED 24727)
Review by Tom Hibbert, Q, December 1994
"IT'S BETTER to burn out than fade away..." The death of Kurt Cobain affected the (rock) world like no other since John Lennon's. Was it ...
Nirvana: Unplugged In New York (Geffen)
Review by Gavin Martin, Vox, December 1994
THE "unplugged" format, more often utilised to spring-clean a musty back-catalogue than carve out a way forward, provided Kurt Cobain with a much-needed window in ...
Profile and Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, Details, December 1994
Meet the Chicago band that's knocking us out with their American Thighs. Veruca Salt have a great debut album and a horde of A&R men ...
Nirvana, Pearl Jam: Pearl Jam: Reluctant Hero
Comment by Andrew Mueller, Vox, January 1995
After years of putting Eddie Vedder down, Kurt Cobain's final retribution was to pass him Grunge's crown of thorns. But will he be able to ...
Interview by Ian Watson, Melody Maker, 11 February 1995
L7 used to be the enfants terribles of US rock, all randomly-strewn sanitary towels and gravity-defying knickers. No more! Now they're Yank Grunge's very own ...
Nirvana: The Ten That Matter Most '85-'95: Nirvana
Retrospective by Eric Weisbard, Spin, April 1995
What does it take to be named one of the top ten artists of the decade? Innovation, influence, imagination, integrity. It all adds up to ...
Report and Interview by Andrew Smith, The Guardian, 7 April 1995
How come an unknown British band are so big in the US? ...
Nirvana: "I Don't Believe In Closing Off Options"
Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 8 April 1995
Back in August 1991, NIRVANA were just the latest in a long line of US rock hopefuls. Newly signed to Geffen, Nevermind was about to ...
Kurt Cobain, Nirvana: Washington's State
Report and Interview by Barbara Ellen, New Musical Express, 8 April 1995
If Cobain's death shook the rock world, its impact on his hometown went off the scales. BARBARA ELLEN visited Seattle to find out how much ...
Hole: Oxford Street Virgin Megastore, London
Live Review by John Harris, New Musical Express, 6 May 1995
PETTY ON THE OUTSIDE ...
Babes In Toyland: The Boardwalk, Manchester
Live Review by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 27 May 1995
I MISS Ligament cos (I was gonna come up with an excuse as contrived as my mate, who was late for school one day cos ...
Pearl Jam, Neil Young: Neil Young: Mirror Ball (Reprise 9362 45934-2/4/1)
Review by Max Bell, Vox, August 1995
FIRST THINGS first. It's age before beauty. Young before youth. Finally, the worst kept secret in rock — that Neil Young was recording an album ...
Stone Temple Pilots: Peace, Love and Understanding
Interview by Michael Azerrad, Spin, August 1995
AFTER MORE THAN A YEAR ON THE CHARTS WITH THE TRIPLE-PLATINUM ALBUM PURPLE, STONE TEMPLE PILOTS' SCOTT WEILAND LEARNS TO LIVE WITH HIS MONSTROUS SUCCESS ...
Report and Interview by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, 24 August 1995
While the Courtney saga continues, Hole prove that a rock & roll band is the sum of its parts ...
Neil Young, Pearl Jam: Neil Young: Oh But I Was So Much Older Then...
Interview by Mark Cooper, Q, September 1995
...he's younger than that now. Neil Young's new album, Mirror Ball, is a scintillating trans-guitar-generational collaboration with hip young gunslingers Pearl Jam, and has given ...
Live Review by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 1 September 1995
Britpop may be bland, but the Reading Festival shows we are over the dark days of last year ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, Spin, October 1995
'NO RAIN' by Blind Melon was a very popular song around my house two summers ago — all I can say is our life was ...
Foo Fighters, Nirvana: Foo Fighters: The Chosen Foo
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, November 1995
THE FOO FIGHTERS Melody Maker interview takes place in the lobby of some swank hotel in Madrid, Spain. Outside, gun-toting cops keep the hookers at ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 2 November 1995
CANDLEBOX WERE lifted out of Seattle by Madonna instead of by Sub Pop Records, and their audience tends to be teenage girls. So they're maligned ...
Pearl Jam: Stone Soup: Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Addicted To Noise, 2 March 1996
PEARL JAM'S Stone Gossard is not quite the man I expected, when you consider that he's a member of one of the most popular and ...
Nirvana: The Kurt Cobain Memorial
Interview by Dave Thompson, Q, April 1996
Four days after Kurt Cobain's suicide, thousands gathered in his home city to attend the event that became his public funeral, falling somewhere between touching ...
Foo Fighters: Have We Got Foos For You
Interview by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 6 April 1996
Foo Fighters are back with a new single, 'Big Me', and a fresh determination to not let adulation force them into a Nirvana–type corner. Melody ...
Profile and Interview by Steven Daly, Rolling Stone, 18 April 1996
Steve Albini is working on their next album, and their lead singer is pals with Courtney Love. Does that make them a band to ridicule ...
Soundgarden: Down On The Upside
Review by Johnny Cigarettes, New Musical Express, 18 May 1996
WHEN THEIR CHILDREN ask what they did in the grunge cred wars of the early '90s, Soundgarden will claim that they were conscientious objectors. ...
Soundgarden: 'We're not dead yet'
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 25 May 1996
Kurt may be gone and grunge may have copped it, but SOUNDGARDEN live on, louder and fiercer than ever, ready to blow the likes of ...
Interview by Paul Elliott, Select, June 1996
Soundgarden's Chris Cornell muses on alcohol, nuns and The Presidents of The United States of America. ...
Screaming Trees: Dust (Epic 483980)
Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 12 July 1996
IT IS being talked up in the music press as the "rock masterpiece" of the year, and there is indeed something special about Dust, the ...
Screaming Trees: Ashes To Ashes
Report and Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 13 July 1996
WE'RE LUCKY Screaming Trees, peers of Nirvana, are still here, given mainman Mark Lanegan's excess-all-areas past. We're especially lucky because the Trees have just recorded ...
Screaming Trees: Stranger Than Fiction
Interview by Marc Weingarten, Request, August 1996
The members of Screaming Trees get very little enjoyment but plenty of good music out of being in a band together. ...
Pearl Jam: No Code (Epic ET067500) kkkk
Review by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 17 August 1996
WHAT BAND would not want to be in Pearl Jam's position right now? Still one of the biggest rock acts in the world, grunge's leading ...
Tracy Bonham: The Borderline, London
Live Review by Robin Bresnark, Melody Maker, 14 September 1996
THE DUST mite is a disgusting little beast, preying on dead and rotting skin cells abandoned by the progress of life. Tracy Bonham, on the ...
Soundgarden: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 5 October 1996
DESPAIR-SHAPED ...
Screaming Trees: Astoria, London
Live Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 9 November 1996
Bark with bite ...
Screaming Trees: Riverside, Newcastle
Live Review by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 16 November 1996
FOR A gig you might've expected to be a pissed–up, beery slop, all bum–notes and chaos, it's all in the subtleties of feel. This is ...
Screaming Trees: Rock City, Nottingham
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 16 November 1996
TAKE A BOUGH ...
Kurt Cobain, Nirvana: Kurt Cobain: The Lost Interview
Interview by Jon Savage, Guitar World, 1997
In July of 1993, Kurt Cobain gave a dramatically candid interview to respected British rock journalist Jon Savage. Freely discussed were such controversial topics as ...
Bush: Valise of the Dolts: Bush: Razorblade Suitcase (Interscope)
Review by Johnny Cigarettes, New Musical Express, 18 January 1997
OK. WE ADMIT IT. We're shit. Culturally, politically, militarily, economically, morally, socially, athletically and aesthetically, Britain is rubbish. We can't win at cricket any more. ...
Bush: America? They're mad for it
Interview by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 20 January 1997
Four Londoners have conquered the American rock market: their new album is at number one and they outsell the Britpop crew combined. Have you heard ...
Foo Fighters, Nirvana: Verse Chorus Verse: The Recording History of Nirvana
Special Feature by Gillian G. Gaar, Goldmine, 14 February 1997
NEARLY THREE years after Kurt Cobain's death in April 1994, interest in his group, Nirvana, remains strong. ...
Bush: Forum, Kentish Town, London
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 22 February 1997
THICKET TO DERIDE ...
3 Colours Red, Bush: Bush, 3 Colours Red: SFX Centre, Dublin
Live Review by Robin Bresnark, Melody Maker, 25 October 1997
BETWEEN ROCK AND A TIRED PLACE ...
Report and Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 8 November 1997
Gavin Rossdale has spent a mere 11 days at home in the last two years. No wonder BUSH have driven back to London after every ...
Review by Ben Myers, Melody Maker, 22 November 1997
IT SEEMS LIKE Soundgarden's rich and fruitful career falls into two distinctive camps, reflected quite clearly on this, their first post-split release. ...
Scott Weiland: Lone Temple Pilot
Interview by James Hunter, Details, January 1998
"TODAY, I am not suffering," Scott Weiland says. "I am not dope sick." The frontman for Stone Temple Pilots claims his fuckup days are behind ...
Interview by Dave Marsh, Musician, April 1998
ROCK BANDS ARE like families on the Tolstoyan model. The happy ones are exactly the same (perhaps because they're nonexistent?) while the unhappy ones are ...
Scott Weiland: The Man Who Fell To Earth
Profile and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Request, April 1998
AFTER A SIX-YEAR battle with heroin addiction and two stints in rehab, Scott Weiland, frontman for Stone Temple Pilots and would-be solo artist, is in ...
Review by James Hunter, Rolling Stone, 17 September 1998
Courtney Love and Hole make a fiery, flowery return ...
Hole: Courtney Love vs. Everett True
Interview by Everett True, The Stranger, 25 February 1999
THE FOLLOWING are excerpts from a conversation that took place in a hotel room in Seattle, last December after the Hole concert at KeyArena. No ...
Hole, Courtney Love: The Lesson Of Love: Courtney's Got The Hole World In Her Hands
Report and Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 14 May 1999
IT IS A STILL-SLEEPY Courtney Love whose familiar voice comes over the phone line early one morning from Cincinnati. It's the first day of her ...
Review by David Bennun, The Guardian, October 1999
IF EVER a Central Committee for Naming Things should be summoned into existence, I would like to nominate, for the chair, the inventor of the ...
Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, 23 October 1999
You would give your left arm to have a celebrity girlfriend, holidays in the Caribbean, several million in the bank and a reputation as Britain's ...
Foo Fighters: At the Brixton Academy
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 27 November 1999
The number of rock drummers who've realised they were destined for headier things at the front of the stage can be counted on two fingers: ...
Heroin: The Secret Drug Of The'90s
Report by Tom Doyle, Q, December 1999
It offed grunge. It killed Britpop. It claimed actual human lives. Heroin began the '90s as a retro drug with insalubrious associations. It ended the ...
Smashing Pumpkins: Machina/The Machines of God
Review by Miles Marshall Lewis, L.A. Weekly, March 2000
CURRENT ROCK carries the air of an apprehensive lover who's lately been having a bit of trouble maintaining an erection, fretfully wondering, "Will I be ...
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 13 April 2000
Bad grrls live forever ...
Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, July 2000
Patchily thrilling sixth effort from grunge vets ...
Kurt Cobain, Nirvana: Kurt Cobain
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 2000
WHEN ROCK stars die, it's usually as a result of living too well, taking too much, going too fast, getting too high. ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music, 2001
John Curley; Greg Dulli; Steve Earle (replaced by Paul Buchignani, replaced by Michael Horrigan); Rick McCollum ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music, 2001
Jerry Cantrell, b. 18 March 1966, Tacoma, Washington, USA; Sean Kinney, b. 26 May 1966, Seattle, Washington; Layne Staley, b. 22 August 1967, Bellevue, Washington; ...
Days and Nights of Nostalgia: Everett True's Diary of Change, Grunge, and Shameful Self-Promotion
Memoir by Everett True, The Stranger, 15 March 2001
THE STRANGER'S cantankerous former music editor Everett True recently returned from London to revisit his salad days in Seattle. Herewith is the record of his ...
Book Review by Carol Clerk, Uncut, October 2001
Marking the 10th anniversary of Nevermind, True relives a turbulent life in grunge and Gullick and Sweet share their photographs ...
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Blender, November 2001
Song title: 'Today'Artist: Smashing PumpkinsLabel: Virgin ...
Nirvana, Tad: Burn Baby Burn! Sub Pop's 1989 tour of Europe
Retrospective and Interview by Keith Cameron, Q, March 2002
Started: Riverside, Newcastle, 23 October 1989 Finished: Astoria, London, 3 December 1989 Bands: Nirvana, Tad ...
Husker Du, Bob Mould: The Real Godfather of Grunge: Bob Mould's Modulate
Review by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 20 March 2002
KURT COBAIN WAS a wonderful musician, but the combination of a best-selling record, a tabloid marriage and a lurid suicide inflated his reputation all out ...
Kurt Cobain, Nirvana: The Last Star: Kurt Cobain
Essay by Barney Hoskyns, Observer Music Monthly, June 2002
Why Kurt Cobain's legacy is worth fighting – or at least waiting – for ...
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Blender, July 2002
Performers: Eddie Vedder: vocals Jeff Ament: bass Mike McCready: guitar Stone Gossard: guitar Dave Krusen: drums Rick Parashar: keyboards Producer: Rick Parashar Released: September 1992 Highest chart position: 79 ...
Alice In Chains: The Man Boxed In: Layne Staley, 1967-2002
Obituary by Jason Cohen, Spin, July 2002
LAYNE STALEY was already something of a ghost. Alice in Chains, the Seattle band he'd fronted since 1987, was officially on "hiatus," a two-year respite ...
Retrospective and Interview by Everett True, The Stranger, 15 August 2002
*Not-So-Frequently-Asked Questions About One of Seattle's Best and Most Enduring Rock Bands. A Primer ...
Mudhoney: Boat Club, Nottingham
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 12 September 2002
BEING AN AMERICAN grunge rocker must be one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. Past incumbents, from Nirvana to Alice in Chains to ...
Mudhoney: Number one sick boys
Retrospective and Interview by Stevie Chick, Kerrang!, 28 September 2002
Mudhoney helped invent grunge, then became also-rans in a blur of fights, paranoia and heroin. They're happy to talk about it... ...
Nirvana: Kurt’s Chronicler: A Chat With Charles R. Cross
Interview by Alvaro Costa, Rock's Backpages, December 2002
Alvaro Costa checks in with the author of the acclaimed Heavier Than Heaven. ...
Interview by Nick Hasted, Uncut, December 2002
Grunge survivors PEARL JAM are back with a brave new album that dares to question the political hypocrises of America's post-9/11 moral posturing ...
Retrospective by Keith Cameron, MOJO, January 2003
Nirvana's metamorphosis from callow punk geeks to the globe-stomping rock phenomenon of Nevermind took little more than a year. In between lay a chaotic tale ...
Review by Miles Marshall Lewis, L.A. Weekly, August 2003
EDDIE VEDDER CARES. If the casual music enthusiast remembers nothing else about Pearl Jam beyond their Beatles/Rolling Stones polarization with Nirvana in the early '90s, ...
Review by Nick Southall, Stylus, 1 September 2003
HAVE WARHOL'S predictions (desires) come true? Is art now pop and is pop now art? Can either be considered real or worthy or authentic? It ...
Courtney Love: America’s Sweetheart
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, 2004
Lady Cobain emerges from rehab to release her debut solo album. ...
Interview by Stevie Chick, Loose Lips Sink Ships, February 2004
When was your first time in jail?"I was twelve years old... It was for shoplifting. Shoplifting booze, heh heh heh."Have you always been attracted to ...
Hole, Courtney Love, Nirvana: It's True, I Did Kill Kurt Cobain
Memoir by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 5 April 2004
It is ten years since the rock icon shot himself. This critic recalls meeting with his wife, Courtney Love, shortly before his death ...
Nirvana's 'You Know You're Right'
Retrospective by Gillian G. Gaar, MOJO, May 2004
ON SATURDAY, September 21, 2002, Nirvana's 'You Know You're Right' was leaked on the internet. ...
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, July 2004
YOU MAY know John Frusciante as the intermittent guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He infamously quit the foursome only moments before he was ...
Mark Lanegan: Death Valley Blues
Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, October 2004
MARK LANEGAN HAS JUST PUT THE unfiltered Camel to his lips when there's a knock at the door. It's his UK record company's PR. "I ...
Nirvana: With The Lights Out (Geffen)
Review by Stevie Chick, The Stranger, 18 November 2004
POSTHUMOUS RELEASES FROM from departed artists often flail to do the impossible – to provide the music so violently and abruptly silenced by, say, Jeff ...
Nirvana: With the Lights Out (DGC)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Observer Music Monthly, 12 December 2004
THE DOMINANT MOTIF of Nineties rock was backward time travel. In the UK, the likes of Supergrass and Oasis seemed to have discovered The Beatles ...
Review by Marc Weingarten, Uncut, January 2005
At last, the Cobain motherlode: three CDs and one DVD, with 81 songs, 68 unreleased. ...
Nirvana: With the Lights Out (Geffen/UME)
Review by Will Hermes, Spin, January 2005
A decade later, Kurt Cobain's last words ...
Nirvana: Good Riffs, Good Drumming, Great Screaming!
Retrospective and Interview by Gillian G. Gaar, MOJO, January 2005
Good Riffs, Good Drumming, Great Screaming!... that's how producer Jack Endino recalls Nirvana's first proper studio stint. Three hours and 10 songs later, Kurt Cobain ...
Dinosaur Jr.: Dinosaur Jr: Dinosaur, Youre Living All Over Me, Bug
Review by Everett True, Observer Music Monthly, April 2005
J Mascis plays guitar like he skis: effortlessly, yet fully in control ...
Nirvana: The Betrayal Of Olympia
Retrospective and Interview by Everett True, Plan B, May 2005
How the home of K Records, Sub Pop, Riot Grrrl and the punk rock librarians gave rise to Nirvana, and became subsumed into the myth ...
Foo Fighters, Nirvana: Dave Grohl
Interview by Stevie Chick, MOJO, July 2005
Grooving on Led Zep, dossing with mud-wrestlers, he joined the "fucking dark" world of Nirvana a goofy naif and left it a rock star. "I ...
Dinosaur Jr: Back From Extinction: Dinosaur Jr And The Annals Of Indie-Rock
Comment by Stevie Chick, The Stranger, 18 August 2005
FUNNY HOW THINGS change. Only a year ago, the idea of Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis and Lou Barlow burying their legendarily blood-splattered hatchet was laughable. ...
Interview by Will Hermes, Spin, October 2005
Reflecting on Seattle's dangerous heyday and Pearl Jam's legacy, the grunge icon comes clean ...
Nirvana: Extract from Nirvana: The True Story (Omnibus Press)
Book Excerpt by Everett True, Nirvana: The True Story (Omnibus), 2006
No music writer in the world was closer to Nirvana than Melody Maker's Everett True, who saw them perform on over 70 occasions, interviewed them ...
Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Scream: Scream And Scream Again: Dave Grohl
Book Excerpt by Jeff Apter, 'The Dave Grohl Story' (Omnibus Press) , 2006
In 1987, DC hopeful Dave Grohl finally scored what he thought was the best gig in the world: drumming for hardcore legends Scream. But what ...
Profile and Interview by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 9 November 2006
Courtney Love was rejected by her parents at 9, raised in institutions and grew into the wild woman of rock. Our correspondent spent the weekend ...
Courtney Love: Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love
Book Review by Ben Thompson, The Independent, 12 November 2006
Make tea, get nose fixed ASAP ...
Foo Fighters, Nirvana: Monster of Rock: Dave Grohl
Profile and Interview by Dan Gennoe, Mail On Sunday, 16 September 2007
DAVE GROHL IS TIRED. Pulling a back-crunching, jaw-cranking comedy stretch, he twists, grits his immaculate white teeth and let's out a little squeak. Finished, he ...
Stone Temple Pilots: Scott Weiland (2008)
Interview by Pete Makowski, Rock's Backpages audio, March 2008
The late singer recalls childhood friends Stone Temple Pilots disintegrating through success and drugs; talks about leaving STP and joining Velvet Revolver, about the latter band also falling apart, about the overdose death of his brother and about rejoining STP... and at length about his own addictions and attempts at rehab.
File format: mp3; file size: 58.6mb, interview length: 1h 01' 03" sound quality: ****
Mudhoney: Superfuzz Bigmuff: Deluxe Edition (Sub Pop!)
Review by Carol Clerk, Classic Rock, July 2008
TWENTY YEARS AGO, Mudhoney released their first Sub Pop! single, 'Touch Me I'm Sick', followed closely by the Superfuzz Bigmuff EP. Neither sold much, but ...
Mudhoney, Nirvana: Sup Pop is 20
Retrospective and Interview by Everett True, Plan B, August 2008
...and Everett True is 481. Nineteen years on from his first Seattle jolly on the Sub Pop account, Plan B's publisher-at-large jets back to the ...
Alice in Chains' William DuVall (2009)
Interview by Steven Rosen, Rock's Backpages audio, 2009
The "new boy" talks about the weight of expectation on his shoulders replacing Layne Staley, his friendship with Jerry Cantrell, recording new album Black Gives Way to Blue, and guitars, amps etc.
File format: mp3; file size: 39.4mb, interview length: 43' 02" sound quality: * (phoner)
Retrospective by Keith Cameron, Q, May 2009
THE SMALL WOODEN BUILDING at 4230 Leary Way NW, in the residential Seattle district of Ballard, didn't look like the epicentre of a revolution. But ...
Alice In Chains: Scala, London
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, August 2009
CONTEMPORARIES OF Nirvana and Pearl Jam during the Seattle grunge boom of the late 1980s and early 1990s, Alice In Chains returned from a long ...
Pearl Jam: Shepherds Bush Empire
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, August 2009
ONE OF THE LAST surviving bands from the Seattle grunge goldrush that revitalised American rock two decades ago, Pearl Jam played a rare London club ...
Dead Confederate: Wrecking Ball
Review by Bud Scoppa, Uncut, December 2009
'90s grunge rears its woolly head in the American South... ...
Review by Stevie Chick, bbc.co.uk, 2011
Laconic, guitar-heavy masterpiece from Dinosaur Jr.'s second-wind. ...
Nirvana: Krist Novoselic and the beatification of Nirvana
Report and Interview by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 5 May 2011
Once the enfants terribles of the Seattle rock underground, Nirvana have now been exalted by the city elders. Bassist Krist Novoselic talks about becoming a ...
Kurt Cobain, Nirvana: Ten Myths About Grunge, Nirvana and Kurt Cobain
Guide by Everett True, The Guardian, 24 August 2011
KURT COBAIN loved Abba, wasn't from Seattle and didn't invent grunge. Everett True, the man who pushed the singer's wheelchair on stage for his last ...
Nirvana: Smells Like a Sellout: Nirvana and the Death of Alternative Rock
Essay by Toby Creswell, Rock's Backpages, September 2011
NOWADAYS EVERYBODY ascribes the collapse of the recording industry to illegal downloading. But as Bob Dylan recently observed, "Remember when that Napster guy came up ...
Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream (Reissue)
Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 6 December 2011
FOR ALL its resonance amongst the youth of the day, the voice of grunge was old before its time and world-weary. Although their chagrin and ...
Chris Cornell, Soundgarden: Chris Cornell: An Interview
Interview by Pete Makowski, unpublished, Spring 2011
NOTE: This is an uncut version of an interview I did with Chris Cornell in Los Angeles in Spring 2011 for MOJO. Soundgarden had reformed ...
Evan Dando, The Lemonheads: Evan Dando: Different Drum
Profile by James Medd, The Word, February 2012
Evan Dando's dismissal as the work-shy poster boy of bubble-grunge masks a monumental talent. Reconsider this man! argues James Medd. ...
Report and Interview by Steve LaBate, Paste, 11 June 2012
On the cusp of their 30th anniversary, the Godfathers of Grunge are too busy for nostalgia trips. Inside Atlanta's The Loft — a barely lit, industrial ...
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 21 June 2012
PLAYING THE FIRST of two Manchester shows ahead of their Isle of Wight festival appearance this weekend, Pearl Jam once again pulled off the impressive ...
Soundgarden: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 11 November 2012
A HOT TICKET and a guaranteed sell-out, this rare intimate show by recently reformed Seattle veterans Soundgarden was essentially a launch party for the band's ...
Review by Luke Turner, bbc.co.uk, 12 November 2012
A superb comeback, 16 years after their last studio LP, from the big-riffed Seattle band. ...
Soundgarden: Beast Kings of NY
Report and Interview by Alan Light, MOJO, February 2013
NOTE: This is Alan's "Director's Cut" version of the piece that ran in MOJO. ...
Underachievers and proud of it
Comment by Dorian Lynskey, Q, February 2013
Attention, young bands and their fiercely partisan friends! It turns out that making it isn't all it's cracked up to be. ...
Review by Ben Myers, bbc.co.uk, 1 April 2013
Grunge originators show zero signs of mellowing. ...
Soundgarden: The 'Black Hole Sun' Also Rises: Soundgarden's Superunknown At 20
Retrospective by Juliette Jagger, Huffington Post, 13 March 2014
BY EARLY 1994, Grunge had already changed the mainstream musical landscape forever. At the decade's onset, the success of albums such as Nirvana's Nevermind and ...
Afghan Whigs: The Afghan Whigs: Do To The Beast (Sub Pop)
Review by Simon Price, Q, May 2014
WOMEN OF a certain age and tastes still come over all peculiar at the mention of Greg Dulli's name. Certain men, too. Of all the ...
Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan: Hanging on in "this dirty pop business"
Profile and Interview by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 5 December 2014
BILLY CORGAN is still big: all shaven-headed, 6ft 3in of him. It's rock music, he has decided, which got small, and he had better find ...
The Melvins: An appreciation of the Melvins
Comment by Everett True, Music That I Like, 10 February 2016
NOTE: This was originally written for a Russian publication as a review of the Melvins' 2014 album Hold It In. I was trying to write ...
Chris Cornell: R.I.P. Chris Cornell. I am so proud to have known you
Comment by Everett True, Music That I Like, 25 May 2017
THIS IS AN anecdote I did not share in the Classic Rock piece I just wrote on Soundgarden. I felt it was a little too off-target, ...
Belly On Recording Dove, Their First Album In 23 Years
Interview by Julian Marszalek, Gigwise, 1 May 2018
Tanya Donelly tells how self-releasing a crowd-funded album has liberated Belly ...
Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love: Only Noise: In the Wake of Kurt's Suicide, Courtney Love Changed My Life
Memoir by Carla DeSantis Black, AudioFemme, 4 April 2019
ONLY NOISE explores music fandom with poignant personal essays that examine the ways we're shaped by our chosen soundtrack. This week, legendary ROCKRGRL editor Carla ...
Nirvana: Danny Goldberg: Serving the Servant – Remembering Kurt Cobain (Ecco)
Book Review by Michael Simmons, L.A. Weekly, 12 April 2019
MUSIC BIZ macher, political activist and author Danny Goldberg's new book is Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain (Ecco), a reminiscence of his time as ...
Guide by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 22 April 2020
LAST WEEK, A STORY appeared in the New York Times that predicted that live music would not return to the world's stages until the autumn ...
The Melvins: A Conversation With the Melvins
Interview by Jacob Paul Nielsen, Magnet, 20 December 2022
The Melvins just finished a lengthy U.S. tour in support of Bad Mood Rising, their first LP on Amphetamine Reptile in 25 years. MAGNET caught ...
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