You can now read about the early days of Seattle grunge, Bono and Chris Martin have put aside their differences and some old school Beck is getting a new release. More details after the jump…
A new book on the “grunge” scene that exploded out of Seattle and swept the music industry and the world is in stores now. Author Greg Prato’s Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music is “the definitive story of the Pacific Northwest music scene of the late ’80s and early ’90s.”

The book features more than 130 interviews with participants such as Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament and Eddie Vedder, Alice In Chains’s Jerry Cantrell and Sean Kinney, Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil, and former Nirvana drummer Chad Channing. (more…)