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‘I was there!’ Writers remember legendary gigs by Beyoncé, Brian Wilson, Britney, Oasis, Daft Punk and more

What’s it like to catch a gig so great it goes down in history? Our writers relive incredible performances by everyone from Amy Winehouse at the North Sea jazz festival to Kanye West at Glastonbury

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"The beauty of it is that it's two minutes long. It's not like it's Free Bird where you have to suffer through 10 minutes of playing it every night": The story of the psychotic debut single that kick-started the grunge revolution

The riff was stolen and it came out on 7" single when vinyl was in its death throes, but Touch Me I'm Sick changed the course of music

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“It was prophetic. Right after that exploded, Limp Bizkit, all of these groups, was doing what was being done on that record”: This 1993 action movie was a bomb. But it produced one of the most revolutionary soundtracks of the decade

Box office bomb, killer soundtrack

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"There was something about the way he carried himself. He quite clearly was going to shine": The early years of Soundgarden's Chris Cornell

As Soundgarden broke out of the Seattle scene, Chris Cornell stood apartfrom his peers: a rock god among grunge’s iconoclasts

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"We are surprised": The estate of late Saints singer Chris Bailey say they weren't consulted over upcoming tour with Mudhoney's Mark Arm

The Saints 1973-1978 are scheduled to play six shows in November, with Mudhoney frontman Mark Arm filling in for Chris Bailey

Louder

"I am stoked, stunned, and humbled that I get to join in on this rock'n'roll reality camp": Punk legends The Saints to tour with Mudhoney's Mark Arm as frontman

The news comes as a deluxe edition of The Saints' groundbreaking debut album I'm Stranded is announced

Louder

Australian punk rock pioneers the Saints announce national tour

Joining founding guitarist Ed Kuepper and drummer Ivor Hay in new five-piece lineup for November tour will be Mudhoney singer Mark Arm

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“Kurt said some stuff about us that was a real bummer. I thought Nirvana were a good band. Our response to their criticism was, Dude, why are you being such a dick?” Pearl Jam look back on their 'feud' with Nirvana

Back in the early '90s, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain had a bone to pick with fellow grunge superstars Pearl Jam, much to Pearl Jam's bemusement

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“I didn’t play with a Big Muff for a long time and felt like a fraud”: Mudhoney’s Steve Turner and Mark Arm like to lose control, but without straying too far from their comfort zone

What’s hardcore? What’s grunge? Why have a huge pedalboard? What’s happening with the Melvins? The legendary alt-rock guitar duo ponder all of this and more as they go deep on Mudhoney's new album, Plastic Eternity, and their past and future

Guitar World

“We might have blown our wad on our first single!” Mudhoney’s Mark Arm on the making of their classic debut Touch Me I’m Sick

The grunge pioneers’ debut single was later reworked to feature in Cameron Crowe’s Seattle-based comedy Singles

Louder

“We didn't emulate Mudhoney's behaviour because we might not be alive if we had!" Superchunk look back on the decade that helped birth and destroy US alt rock

Superchunk's Mac McCaughan and Jim Wilbur talk us through a life spent on the fringes of alt rock – and being inadvertent godparents of mainstream emo

Louder

A beginner's guide to Sub Pop Records in five essential albums

Celebrated as the home of grunge, Sub Pop has evolved into one of America's most eclectic indie labels. Here is the Sub Pop story told via five key records

Louder

Gum Ball line-up delivers on great expectations

By every metric Gum Ball could be considered a success.

Newcastle Herald

35 years on, Mudhoney are as feral and incisive and sarcastic as ever

Plastic Eternity is the 11th studio album for Sub Pop’s flagship band Mudhoney

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The Guardian - AU

‘Kurt was not in a good way’: backstage on Nirvana’s first – and only - Australian tour

Promoter Stephen ‘Pav’ Pavlovic spent weeks on tour with bands like Nirvana and Hole in the 1990s. ‘I hoarded everything,’ he says – and a new exhibition reveals all

Newcastle Herald

Mudhoney to get down and dirty at The Gum Ball

AMERICAN punk legends Mudhoney will headline The Gum Ball in 2023, in what will undeniably be the biggest act to play Dashville in its near 20-year history.

The Guardian - UK

Sub Pop’s Megan Jasper: ‘It felt like the ground beneath us could give at any moment’

In an extract from a new collection of essays on women’s experiences in music, the chief executive of the record label famous for launching Nirvana looks back

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