Yarm, Mark - Everybody Loves Our Town (New Edition) - Book

Label: Espop Ediciones

RRP: 28 Leuros / 592 pagesCompiled from more than 250 new interviews with members of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Screaming Trees, Alice in Chains, The Melvins, Hole, Green River, Mother Love Bone, 7 Year Bitch, Temple of the Dog, Babes in Toyland, Mad Season, TAD, The U-Men, Skin Yard, L7, Supersuckers, The Gits, and many more, Everybody Loves Our Town is a moving, funny, and revealing portrait of an extraordinary musical era.In 1986, Seattle record label C/Z Records released Deep Six, a compilation album showcasing half a dozen local bands: Soundgarden, Green River, The Melvins, Malfunkshun, The U-Men, and Skin Yard. Though it sold terribly, the album made history by documenting an emerging regional sound: that rough fusion of heavy metal and punk rock that we eventually came to know as grunge. Five years later, with the success of “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” the term spread around the world, turning Seattle into ground zero for the ’90s alternative rock explosion. This is the definitive account of how an independent, largely isolated musical and cultural scene became a global phenomenon.Everybody Loves Our Town captures the origins, rise, and peak of the grunge era in the words of the musicians, producers, managers, video directors, photographers, journalists, publicists, venue owners, roadies, enthusiasts, and acolytes who truly lived it. The book tells the whole story: from the founding of the bands featured on Deep Six to the worldwide success of grunge’s big four (Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains); from the origins of the cash-strapped but enthusiastic independent label Sub Pop to the frenzy with which the major labels descended on the Pacific Northwest, ready to milk the cash cow; from the simple pleasure of rocking out at basement parties and tiny clubs to the tragic