Everybody loves our town - Mark Yarm

Grunge, also known as the 'Seattle sound', is the sludgy fusion of punk
rock and heavy metal that emerged from the Pacific Northwest in the
early part of the 1980s. But it was the unexpected, seemingly overnight
success of Nirvana's single 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,' in the fall of
1991, that made grunge a household word and launched an American music
movement on par with punk and hip-hop.

20 years later, Mark Yarm captures that era in the words of those at the forefront of the movement (and the music's lesser-known champions). Everybody Loves Our Town will
tell the whole story: the founding of originators like Soundgarden and
the Melvins, the early successes of Seattle's Sub Pop record label, the
rise of powerhouses Nirvana and Pearl Jam, the insane media hype
surrounding the grunge explosion, the suicide of Kurt Cobain, and
finally, the genre's mid-to-late-'90s decline.