Kathleen Hanna, Bikini Kill.
On this day in 2002, a memorial service for Layne Staley is held at the Seattle Center International Fountain, the same place a vigil for Kurt Cobain takes place eight years earlier.
Layne Staley as a child.
Sub Pop turns 25 today. Happy Birthday, us. (at Sub Pop HQ)
Happy 25th birthday, Sub Pop!
“April 1, 1988, is when we quit our day jobs and moved into our tiny, original office, in the Terminal Sales Building downtown. It’s the first day of Sub Pop, with a big asterisk next to it: Except for the previous eight years.”
—Sub Pop cofounder Bruce Pavitt, from Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge
Kurt Cobain and Jon Poneman of Sub Pop backstage at the Piper Club in Rome, 1989.
This is the cover of the next Alice in Chains album, “The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here.”
Flier from the first Nirvana show as “Nirvana.” Community World Theatre, Tacoma, 3/19/88.
(Source: theperfectneedle, via ohnobeathappening)
Mad Season.
Former members of 7 Year Bitch, together again in Seattle for the debut of the new women-in-grunge musical These Streets. Clockwise, from left to right: Selene Vigil-Wilk, Elizabeth Davis-Simpson, Valerie Agnew and Roisin Ross. (Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Davis-Simpson)
Sub Pop opened a physical store called The Megamart in Seattle. It went out of business. Surprise, surprise. Anyway, this is an ad we ran The Rocket in what would have been about 1993.
I’m sad I never got to go to the Sub Pop Mega Mart, if only for the awesome wall of polaroids which are apparently now in the Sub Pop offices.
Happy birthday, Mark Arm. The Mudhoney frontman turns 51 today.
Happy birthday, Kurt.
Soundgarden/Bundle of Hiss gig poster.
