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.
Grunge, the raw fusion of punk rock and heavy metal also known as the “Seattle sound,” began its emergence from the Pacific Northwest in the early part of the 1980s. But it took the unexpected,
seemingly overnight success of Nirvana's single "Smells Like Teen Spirit," in the fall of 1991, to make grunge a household word and turn Seattle into ground zero for the burgeoning
alternative-rock movement that would be a dominant force on the American cultural landscape for the next decade.
Everybody Loves Our Town captures the grunge era in the words of the musicians, producers, managers, record executives, video directors, photographers, journalists, publicists, club
owners, roadies, scenesters and hangers-on who lived through it. Everybody Loves Our Town tells the whole story: the formation of grunge originators like Soundgarden and the
Melvins; the early successes of Seattle's legendary Sub Pop record label; the rise of chart powerhouses Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Alice in Chains; the insane media hype surrounding the grunge
explosion; the shocking suicide of Kurt Cobain; and finally, the genre's mid-to-late-'90s decline.
Drawn from more than 250 new interviews—with members of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, Screaming Trees, Hole, Mudhoney, the Melvins, Mother Love Bone, Mad
Season, L7, Babes in Toyland, TAD, Candlebox and many more—and featuring rare and never-before-published photographs, Everybody Loves Our Town is at once a moving, funny, lurid, and
hugely insightful portrait of this extraordinary musical era.
