everybody loves our town a history of grunge

“Riveting, gossipy, and impossible to put down.” -Vulture I’m absolutely obsessed with Mark Yarm’s masterpiece right now…” -’s Pop Candy column “If you loved the ’90s and you haven’t read this book, you MUST. But for exhaustive detail about Seattle’s unlikely, meteoric stint as the center of the universe-from Cat Butt to Candlebox and all points in between-this is hard to beat.” - Spin

“There’s certainly no shortage of entertainingly thorough books documenting the early ’90s alt-rock boom and What Kurt Hath Wrought. Yarm’s pointed, poignant history reminds rock fans how those power chords resonate.” - The Wall Street Journal

Just as surely as Detroit, Liverpool, New Orleans, and Chicago are forever linked to a particular music, Seattle was the creative hub of a style that for a couple of years dominated pop’s consciousness. “A comprehensive and often fascinating assessment of the Seattle scene, a music revolution that ate its own children…. But there’s much more, too-indelible characters, weird scenes, creative chaos, laughs and tragedy and lots of cheap beer.” -Ann Powers, NPR Yes, there are plenty of Kurt Cobain stories. “This exhaustive oral hi story features unknowns, cult ﬁgures, supporting players and stars each gets the time he or she deserves as Yarm pieces together the arc of a scene that built itself from scratch, blossomed beyond most people’s dreams, and then crashed. Yarm has culled the story of grunge from the people who created it, and their testimony is remarkable for its eloquence and its passion and its fairness and its anger.” -Lev Grossman, Time And it is, but in the best possible way-and it’s also much, much more…. “This volume could have been a huge, snarky compendium of gossip and score settling from the inhabitants of a claustrophobically insular local music scene. A Telegraph (U.K.) Best Book of the Year: Music.A Guardian (U.K.) Best Book of the Year: Music.A Time Magazine Best Nonfiction Book of the Year.Outside of North America, it's been released in Bulgaria, China (Mandarin), Finland, Poland, Spain, and the U.K. I am the author of Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, published in hardcover September 2011 (Crown Archetype) and paperback March 2012 (Three Rivers Press).

Everybody loves our town a history of grunge