![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The album featured Green River, Melvins, Malfunkshun, Skin Yard, Soundgarden and The U-Men and showed the beginnings of the heavy guitar sound that would become grunge. So where do you start a definitive history of grunge? Well, Seattle obviously, but when? Yarm goes back to the Deep Six compilation which showcased six bands from the area and was released in 1986. Some of these people you’ll be familiar with, some you won’t all of them have stories worth telling. So began a three-year project, during which he would track down and interview virtually everyone who was anyone on the grunge scene. From there, Yarm’s future agent suggested expanding it to a book-length history of the phenomenon of grunge itself. ![]() The second thing is to clarify that he’s no relation to Mudhoney’s Mark Arm.Įverybody Loves Our Town started out in Blender magazine as a history of Sub Pop on the occasion of the seminal label’s 20 th anniversary. When talking about his exhaustive and wildly entertaining book Everybody Loves Our Town: A History of Grunge, the first thing journalist and author Mark Yarm usually makes clear is that the term ‘grunge’ is very loose and is widely rejected by many of the people to whom it’s been applied. ![]()
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