Nirvana: Latest Wizards from Sub Pop
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, October 1989
Everett True Thrashes It Out With The Latest Wizards From Seattle's Sub Pop Label Who Arrive In Britain Next Week ...

Nirvana: White Heat
Profile and Interview by John Robb, Sounds, October 1989
Natural descendants of Mudhoney and Dinosaur Jr, Nirvana are a high energy explosion resulting in a trail of smashed gear and beat anthems. John Robb slugs ...

Screaming Trees, Nirvana, Tad: Pine Street Theatre, Portland, OR
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, March 1990
IT SEEMS incredible people still miss the point of Tad. Most (heavy) rock bands play for the sheer hell of it, and, sure Tad do that ...

Tad and Nirvana: The Larder They Come
Report and Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, March 1990
This was a tour not for the faint-hearted. Everett True witnesses the chaos & carnage caused by Tad & Nirvana as they rampaged through the West ...

Nirvana
Interview by Keith Cameron, Sounds, October 1990
If any of the US underground bands are likely to break through into the mainstream, then it's got to be NIRVANA. Currently being courted by eight ...

Surfing With The Aliens: The Pixies
Report and Interview by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, November 1990
THE KIDS AT England's annual Reading festival are a scruffy lot. A ‘90s hybrid of hippie and punk, they wear tie-dyed T-shirts, asymmetrical hairdos, jeans ripped ...

Nirvana: Heaven Can't Wait
Interview by Push, Melody Maker, December 1990
NIRVANA'S NEW single, 'Sliver' weighs in at a fraction over two minutes and is one hell of a pop song. No messing. ...

Hole
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, June 1991
CALIFORNIAN band HOLE sit around my Hollywood hotel room in various degrees of drunkenness. ...

Hole: Camden Underworld, London
Live Review by Dele Fadele, NME, November 1991
YOU KNOW WHEN you're feeling elated, lost in wonder, not out of your cranium but wondering why there seem to be continents on the moon, and ...

Nirvana: Station To Devastation
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, November 1991
On their recent European tour, Seattle's masters of chaos, Nirvana, managed to set their tour bus alight, upset the Pogues and The Ramones, piss into Ride's ...

Blowing Eardrums And Blowing Minds: Soundgarden
Profile and Interview by Christine Natanael, Reflex, December 1991
GNASHING, SUBTERRANEAN youth culture on the verge of intellectual upheaval, coming to awareness in late '70s decadence, and coming of age in the post-anarcho-punk revolution, Soundgarden ...

Pearl Jam: Mike McCready Gets His Feet Wet
Interview by Mike Mettler, Guitar Player, February 1992
"IT RAINS all the time, so you're always inside." Mike McCready laughs; the lead guitarist for Pearl Jam is trying to explain why Seattle is such ...

Hole: Pretty On The Inside
Review by Deborah Frost, Village Voice, February 1992
COURTNEY LOVE is scary. Much scarier than the witches old (Macbeth's, say) and new (Lydia Lunch, say) whom she occasionally sounds like and whom she eventually ...

Soundgarden: Camden Underworld, London
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, March 1992
CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP, swallow swallow grimace. The sound of a music journalist eating his own words. Good job my writing's normally so tasteful. Yum. Gobble gobble ...

L7: L's Belles
Interview by Keith Cameron, NME, March 1992
Don't be fooled by the lighter side of award-winning (and not-the-female-Nirvana) LA grunge gals L7 – they may delight in the trash aesthetic of Hollywood, but ...

The Lemonheads: It's A Shame About Ray
Review by Sally Margaret Joy, Melody Maker, June 1992
WHAT DO THE Lemonheads want from you? Unlike Nirvana, who want to raise your awareness, or Buffalo Tom, who want you to feel the hurt, Lemonheads ...

Kurt Cobain: I'm Not Gonna Crack!
Profile and Interview by Michael Azerrad, Vox, July 1992
Poisoned by the chalice of instant success, bedridden with road-rash after a ton of amp-smashingly intense gigs – what's happened to Nirvana's tortured singer and distillery ...

Nirvana: 'In My Head, I'm So Ugly'
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, July 1992
In the frankest and most comprehensive interview he's given since Nevermind blasted Nirvana into the rock super league, Kurt Cobain talks to EVERETT TRUE in Los ...

Nirvana: Crucified by Success?
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, July 1992
In the second part of his exclusive NIRVANA interview, Everett True meets the band in Stockholm and finds Kurt Cobain, Chris Novoselic and Dave Grohl struggling ...

Come As You Aren’t: Nirvana at Isle Of Calf Festival, Oslo
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, July 1992
THEY DON'T DESERVE THIS. Forget any reports you may have heard that rock is alive and kicking. The world’s only credible arena rock band is close ...

Nirvana: Love Will Tear Us Apart
Report and Interview by Keith Cameron, NME, August 1992
As Nevermind zoomed past Bono & Jacko, so the rumours started: Kurt Is Dead ...Kurt & Courtney & heroin ...As the bulldozers continue to gather up ...

Nirvana: Reading Festival, England
Live Review by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, October 1992
"FUCK WOODSTOCK," read one popular T-shirt here, although this twentieth annual jamboree also began with lots of wasted folks frolicking in the mud and ended with ...

Nirvana: New Noise for '93
Report and Interview by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, January 1993
After a successful European summer tour and a sold-out show at the mammoth 45,000-seat Velez Sarsfield Stadium, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, what has the world's biggest ...

Nirvana: Cobain't That Peculiar
Report and Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, April 1993
Last week, Nirvana, L7, The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy and The Breeders staged a massive benefit for Bosnia at San Francisco's Cow Palace. Everett True saw ...

Nirvana: Incesticide (Geffen Records)
Review by Ian Christe, Warp, June 1993
ORIGINALLY INTENDED for release by their former label under the name Cash Cow, this collection of fifteen tight and tuneful Nirvana rarities has one of 1992’s ...

Urge Overkill: Saturation
Review by Ian Christe, Alternative Press, September 1993
JUST WHAT THESE overambitious bastards are attempting this time is anybody’s guess. Having severed their ties with practically everyone in the Chicago underground who knew ...

Nirvana: The Boys Are Back In Town
Interview by Dave Thompson, Alternative Press, October 1993
Go ahead. Hate this band, it's the cool thing to do. The punk rockers hate them because they've "sold out"; the mainstream hates them because they're ...

Territorial Pissings: The Battles Behind Nirvana's New Album
Report and Interview by Michael Azerrad, Musician, October 1993
KURT COBAIN has found that being a professional rock musician is not quite what he imagined when he was banging out his raunchy punk rock songs ...

Pearl Jam: 'You, My Son, Are Weird!'
Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, November 1993
They’ve a singer, Eddie Vedder, who makes Lou Reed look like a happy-go-lucky bloke; they’re vilified in the press and manically suspicious of The Biz. Yet ...

Life After Gish: Smashing Pumpkins Play Their Generation's Blues
Report and Interview by Gerrie Lim, Big O, December 1993
SO THIS IS Generation X, I'm musing to myself in the lobby of the Hollywood Palladium, as I contemplate the horde of kids who have come ...

Kurt Cobain and Kim Deal: Sleepless In Seattle
Report and Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, December 1993
For a concert spectacular to be broadcast worldwide on New Year's Eve, MTV went to Seattle, where they'd but together a bill featuring Cypress Hill and ...

Kurt Cobain: I Hate Myself And I Want To Die
Obituary by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, April 1994
AND SO, to quote his mother, the only person who appears to have been actively concerned about his well-being in the last few days of his ...

Kurt Cobain: Live Through This
Obituary by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, June 1994
LAST SPRING, Kurt Cobain sat at his kitchen table at 3 a.m., chain-smoking and toying with one of the medical mannequins he collected. "It's hard to ...

Lemonheads: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Dele Fadele, NME, June 1994
HOW HAS EVAN Dando managed to survive the Russian roulette games and hoop-jumping required of a heart-throb by the shark-infested music industry? How does he manage ...

Hole Is A Band
Report and Interview by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, August 1995
While the Courtney saga continues, Hole prove that a rock & roll band is the sum of its parts ...

Foo Fighters: The Chosen Foo
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, November 1995
THE FOO FIGHTERS Melody Maker interview takes place in the lobby of some swank hotel in Madrid, Spain. Outside, gun-toting cops keep the hookers at bay. ...

Stone Soup: Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Addicted To Noise, March 1996
PEARL JAM'S Stone Gossard is not quite the man I expected, when you consider that he's a member of one of the most popular and elusive ...

The Kurt Cobain Memorial
Interview by Dave Thompson, Q, April 1996
Four days after Kurt Cobain's suicide, thousands gathered in his home city to attend the event that became his public funeral, falling somewhere between touching mass ...

Screaming Trees: Ashes To Ashes
Report and Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, July 1996
WE'RE LUCKY Screaming Trees, peers of Nirvana, are still here, given mainman Mark Lanegan's excess-all-areas past. We're especially lucky because the Trees have just recorded one ...

Screaming Trees: Stranger Than Fiction
Interview by Marc Weingarten, Request, August 1996
The members of Screaming Trees get very little enjoyment but plenty of good music out of being in a band together. ...

Verse Chorus Verse: The Recording History of Nirvana
Special Feature by Gillian G. Gaar, Goldmine, February 1997
NEARLY THREE years after Kurt Cobain's death in April 1994, interest in his group, Nirvana, remains strong. ...

Pearl Jam: Art and Economy
Interview by Dave Marsh, Musician, April 1998
ROCK BANDS ARE like families on the Tolstoyan model. The happy ones are exactly the same (perhaps because they're nonexistent?) while the unhappy ones are each ...

Courtney Love vs. Everett True
Interview by Everett True, The Stranger, February 1999
THE FOLLOWING are excerpts from a conversation that took place in a hotel room in Seattle, last December after the Hole concert at KeyArena. No words ...

Smashing Pumpkins: Machina/The Machines of God
Review by Miles Marshall Lewis, L.A. Weekly, March 2000
CURRENT ROCK carries the air of an apprehensive lover who's lately been having a bit of trouble maintaining an erection, fretfully wondering, "Will I be able ...

Kurt Cobain
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 2000
WHEN ROCK stars die, it's usually as a result of living too well, taking too much, going too fast, getting too high. ...

Days and Nights of Nostalgia: Everett True's Diary of Change, Grunge, and Shameful Self-Promotion
Memoir by Everett True, The Stranger, March 2001
THE STRANGER'S cantankerous former music editor Everett True recently returned from London to revisit his salad days in Seattle. Herewith is the record of his observations ...

The Real Godfather of Grunge: Bob Mould's Modulate
Review by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, March 2002
KURT COBAIN WAS a wonderful musician, but the combination of a best-selling record, a tabloid marriage and a lurid suicide inflated his reputation all out of ...

Mudhoney NSFAQ*
Retrospective and Interview by Everett True, The Stranger, August 2002
*Not-So-Frequently-Asked Questions About One of Seattle's Best and Most Enduring Rock Bands. A Primer ...

Pearl Jam: State Of The Union
Interview by Nick Hasted, Uncut, December 2002
SEPTEMBER 11, 2002, and the battle lines are being drawn across Seattle. Flick the channels on your TV and you'll hear America speaking in one sentimental, ...

Nirvana
Retrospective by Keith Cameron, Mojo, January 2003
Nirvana's metamorphosis from callow punk geeks to the globe-stomping rock phenomenon of Nevermind took little more than a year. In between lay a chaotic tale of ...

Pearl Jam: Binaural
Review by Miles Marshall Lewis, L.A. Weekly, August 2003
EDDIE VEDDER CARES. If the casual music enthusiast remembers nothing else about Pearl Jam beyond their Beatles/Rolling Stones polarization with Nirvana in the early '90s, he ...

Courtney Love: America’s Sweetheart
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, 2004
Lady Cobain emerges from rehab to release her debut solo ...

Nirvana's 'You Know You're Right'
Retrospective by Gillian G. Gaar, Mojo, May 2004
ON SATURDAY, September 21, 2002, Nirvana's 'You Know You're Right' was leaked on the internet. ...

Nirvana: With The Lights Out (Geffen)
Review by Stevie Chick, The Stranger, November 2004
POSTHUMOUS RELEASES FROM from departed artists often flail to do the impossible – to provide the music so violently and abruptly silenced by, say, Jeff Buckley's ...

Nirvana: With the Lights Out (DGC)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Observer Music Monthly, December 2004
THE DOMINANT MOTIF of Nineties rock was backward time travel. In the UK, the likes of Supergrass and Oasis seemed to have discovered The Beatles via ...

Back From Extinction: Dinosaur Jr And The Annals Of Indie-Rock
Comment by Stevie Chick, The Stranger, August 2005
FUNNY HOW THINGS change. Only a year ago, the idea of Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis and Lou Barlow burying their legendarily blood-splattered hatchet was laughable. Their ...

Scream And Scream Again: Dave Grohl
Book Excerpt by Jeff Apter, 'The Dave Grohl Story' (Omnibus Press) , 2006
In 1987, DC hopeful Dave Grohl finally scored what he thought was the best gig in the world: drumming for hardcore legends Scream. But what the ...

Extract from Nirvana: The True Story (Omnibus Press)
Book Excerpt by Everett True, Nirvana: The True Story (Omnibus), 2006
No music writer in the world was closer to Nirvana than Melody Maker's Everett True, who saw them perform on over 70 occasions, interviewed them at ...

Monster of Rock: Dave Grohl
Profile and Interview by Dan Gennoe, Mail On Sunday, September 2007
DAVE GROHL IS TIRED. Pulling a back-crunching, jaw-cranking comedy stretch, he twists, grits his immaculate white teeth and let's out a little squeak. Finished, he sits ...

Pearl Jam: Shepherds Bush Empire
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, August 2009
ONE OF THE LAST surviving bands from the Seattle grunge goldrush that revitalised American rock two decades ago, Pearl Jam played a rare London club date ...