Examining The Uneasy Marriage Of Grunge And Classic Rock With Author Mark Yarm

The book ‘Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge’ couldn’t come at a more apropos time, what with both Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ and the band Pearl Jam turning 20 years old.
But the hefty 592-page tome, which was written by former Blender
magazine senior editor Mark Yarm, is far more than just a rehash of
those two acts: It’s a Seattle music-history lesson. From the city’s
early proto-grunge and punk bands to the groups such as Mother Love Bone
and Green River which came directly before the flannel-clad explosion,
Yarm traces how and why the grunge phenomenon came to be.