MARK LANEGAN

Experimental Hardcore jazz Music Journalism Punk 

Corporate Rock Sucks; This Book Doesn’t

April 14, 2022April 14, 2022 Ryan Bray 0 Comments Black Flag, Dinosaur Jr., Greg Ginn, Jim Ruland, MARK LANEGAN, Saint Vitus, SST Records, The Minutemen, The Stains

Jim Ruland takes on the history of one of the most storied and troubled labels in the American punk underground

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Remembrance Rock 

Born to Brood: Mark Lanegan’s Dark Art

February 28, 2022March 15, 2022 Jim Allen 0 Comments Isobel Campbell, James Williamson, MARK LANEGAN, Martina Topley-Bird, Moby, Queens of the Stone Age, RIP, Screaming Trees, Singles, Slash, Tinariwen, UNKLE

Looking back on the broken beauty of a Screaming Tree

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Alternative Rock Blues Hard Rock Remembrance 

Mark Lanegan Dead at 57

February 22, 2022February 23, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments Field Songs, MARK LANEGAN, RIP, Sub Pop

Passing of versatile singer of Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age shakes the music world

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Alternative Rock Hard Rock 

Keep Your Hand On The Gospel Plow: 25 Years of Dust

July 2, 2021July 15, 2021 Jason Perri 0 Comments 1996, 25th Anniversary, All I Know, Barrett Martin, Dust, Epic Records, Gary Lee Conner, MARK LANEGAN, Pearl Jam, Screaming Trees, Soundgarden, Van Conner

The final Screaming Trees studio LP was the culmination of what the band had been yearning for since their humble beginnings

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Music Journalism Seattle 

Straight Talk From Mark Lanegan

July 24, 2020September 3, 2020 Gillian G. Gaar 1 Comment 2020, Courtney Love, Jerry Cantrell, Klaus Kinski, Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley, MARK LANEGAN, Nirvana, Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York, Screaming Trees, Sing Backwards and Weep, Straight Songs Of Sorrow

The Seattle rock icon pulls no punches in his revealing new memoir

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Alternative Rock Blues Hard Rock Psychedelics 

‘Tis the Season: Above at 25

March 20, 2020March 19, 2020 Gillian G. Gaar 1 Comment 1995, Alice in Chains, Barrett Martin, John Baker Saunders, Layne Staley, Mad Season, MARK LANEGAN, Mike McCready, Pearl Jam, Screaming Trees, Seattle

Most groups were one-offs; but Mad Season could have been more than that

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Alternative Rock Folk Rock 

THE BEST REISSUES OF 2019: Nirvana’s Televised Swan Song

December 10, 2019December 11, 2019 Gillian G. Gaar 2 Comments 1993, 1994, About a Girl, Alex Coletti, All Apologies, colored vinyl edition, Cris Kirkwood, Curt Kirkwood, David Grohl, Jesus Wants me for a Sunbeam, Krist Noveselic, Kurt Cobain, Leadbelly, Lori Goldston, MARK LANEGAN, Martin D-18E, Meat Puppets, Michael Azerrad, Nevermind, Nirvana, Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York, November 18, On a Plain, Pennyroyal Tea, Polly, Something in the Way, The Man Who Sold the World, THE VASELINES, vinyl reissue

A crisp new vinyl reissue of MTV Unplugged in New York celebrates the band that could have been

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Folk Hard Rock Rock 

Bitter Liquor

January 31, 2019January 31, 2019 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1994, 25th Anniversary, MARK LANEGAN, Nirvana, Screaming Trees

25 years ago, Mark Lanegan lost his religion on Whiskey for the Holy Ghost

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Hip Hop Punk Rock 

30 Great Sub Pop Records Over 30 Years

May 7, 2018April 12, 2019 Ron Hart 4 Comments AFGHAN WHIGS, Band of Horses, BILLY CHILDISH, Bruce Pavitt, Chad VanGaalen, CHAPPAQUIDDICK SKYLINE, CHEAP TRICK, Clipping. Splendor & Misery, COMBUSTIBLE EDISON, DUM DUM GIRLS, Endless Now, Fleet Foxes, FRANKIE COSMOS, Green River, Iron and Wine, JESUS AND MARY CHAIN, Jonathan Poneman, Kurt Cobain, MARK LANEGAN, Mother Love Bone, MUDHONEY, Mudhoney Pearl Jam, Nirvana, POSTAL SERVICE, RED RED MEAT, REVEREND HORTON HEAT, Seattle, SEBADOH, SIX FINGER SATELLITE, SLEATER-KINNEY, Soundgarden, STRANGE WILDS, Sub Pop Records, SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE, SUPERSUCKERS, The Shins, The Thermals, THE VASELINES, Washed Out, Wolf Parade

Pioneering Seattle label celebrates three decades atop a brutal game

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