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Live reviews / Seattle Icons

Mother Love Bone reunites, steals the show from Brad @ the Showbox 04.14.10

April 15, 2010January 23, 2011 - by Travis Hay

The show was titled Brad and Friends, but it might as well have just been called the old grunge guard reunites

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Live reviews / Seattle Icons

Like a living room of local legends: Hootenanny for Haiti @ the Showbox 02.28.10

March 1, 2010May 17, 2018 - by Travis Hay

The Hootenanny for Haiti featured dozens of local stars all performing for a good cause

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Concert photos / Seattle Icons

PHOTOS: Hootenanny for Haiti 02.28.10

March 1, 2010January 31, 2011 - by Jason Tang

Mike McCready, Duff McKagan, Star Anna, Shawn Smith and more rallied to raise money to support earthquake victims in Haiti

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Live reviews / Seattle Icons

It’s good to be home: Alice in Chains @ the Paramount 02.03.10

February 5, 2010January 23, 2011 - by Travis Hay

Grunge vets soldier on after losing frontman Layne Staley to a drug overdose

It’s good to be home: Alice in Chains @ the Paramount 02.03.10 Read More
News / Seattle Icons

Soundgarden returns

January 1, 2010August 3, 2023 - by Travis Hay

Chris Cornell gets the new year started with a bang by announcing he’s getting his old band back together

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Live reviews / Seattle Icons

What’s grunge got to do with it? Mudhoney, BOTSC & Unnatural Helpers @ Neumos 11.13.09

November 15, 2009January 23, 2011 - by Travis Hay

Mudhoney brought along an old friend (Tad Doyle) and some new friends (Unnatural Helpers) to celebrate the release of a book called ‘Grunge’

What’s grunge got to do with it? Mudhoney, BOTSC & Unnatural Helpers @ Neumos 11.13.09 Read More
Album reviews / Best of '09 / Seattle Icons

Bleach reissue & Reading DVD are near flawless

November 6, 2009January 23, 2011 - by Travis Hay

The biggest band from the 90s gets the reissue treatment and it sounds so fresh you can almost smell the flannel

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Editor's picks / Seattle Icons

Discovering Nirvana’s lost treasures long after the band is gone

November 6, 2009September 7, 2018 - by Travis Hay

The band’s releases from the vault bring back regretful memories

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News / Seattle Icons

PHOTOS: Pearl Jam @ KeyArena

September 24, 2009January 23, 2011 - by Travis Hay

Pics from Pearl Jam’s two-night stint at the Key

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Best of '09 / Seattle Icons

Eddie Vedder’s memorable gift to a 7-year-old boy

September 24, 2009September 6, 2018 - by Travis Hay

Have your Kleenex ready when you read this one

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Best of '09 / Live reviews / Seattle Icons

A tale of two concerts: Pearl Jam’s KeyArena concerts from a fanboy’s point of view

September 23, 2009May 4, 2014 - by Travis Hay

Pearl Jam’s second show at KeyArena was a high octane affair fileld with hits, rarities and waves of emotion. This story is a part of a package that won SPJ’s Excellence in Journalism award

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Best of '09 / Live reviews / Seattle Icons

Pearl Jam kicks off tour with a bang at KeyArena

September 22, 2009May 4, 2014 - by Travis Hay

Pearl Jam celebrated the release of its latest album, Backspacer, with the first of two sold-out hometown arena rock shows. This story is a part of a package that won SPJ’s Excellence in Journalism award.

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News / Seattle Icons

City of Aberdeen censors Kurt Cobain stone

August 7, 2009January 23, 2011 - by Steven Friederich

Apparently letting kids see the word fuck outweighs sending them an anti-drug message in the city of Aberdeen

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News / Seattle Icons

Are you offended by this Kurt Cobain quote?

August 3, 2009January 23, 2011 - by Steven Friederich

The city of Aberdeen may censor a Kurt Cobain memorial stone with an anti-drug message due to some bad language

Are you offended by this Kurt Cobain quote? Read More
Live reviews / Seattle Icons

Death Cab rocks Gonzaga 05.08.09

May 9, 2009January 23, 2011 - by Travis Hay

Bellingham meets Spokane on a college campus resulting in a thoroughly rocked basketball arena

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Favorite interviews / Interviews / Seattle Icons

Death Cab’s Jason McGerr talks pyro, touring and The Open Door

April 22, 2009March 11, 2025 - by Travis Hay

DCFC’s drummer talks with The Candy prior to playing a show in Spokane

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Archives / From the vault / Seattle Icons

From the vault: Nirvana: A bunch of hair-swinging Neanderthals

April 9, 2009March 31, 2012 - by Travis Hay

One of the earliest published features about Nirvana hit the nail on the head way back in 1989

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From the vault / Seattle Icons

From the vault: Remembering Nirvana 10 years later

April 9, 2009March 31, 2012 - by Travis Hay

A look back at how those who knew Kurt Cobain remember him 10 years after his death

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Best of '09 / Seattle Icons

Soundgarden reunites by replacing Chris Cornell with Tad Doyle

March 26, 2009January 23, 2011 - by Travis Hay

An epic one-off, three-song set that foreshadowed the Soundgarden reunion that was to come the following year

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Archives / Seattle Icons

Age doesn’t slow down the Supersuckers

November 30, 2008May 1, 2012 - by Travis Hay

The band celebrates its 20th anniversary with a marathon set

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Editor’s Picks

Five Seattle albums that deserve the 33 1/3 treatment

April 18, 2024March 11, 2025

Young love, romance and Given to Fly: 25 years of Pearl Jam’s Yield

December 31, 2023February 13, 2024

Which Seattle bands will be the next Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees?

February 2, 2023March 11, 2025

Chris Cornell on fatherhood & rockstardom

May 19, 2017March 11, 2025

Pearl Jam opens up to fans at intimate ‘Lightning Bolt’ Town Hall

October 7, 2013January 15, 2020

Discovering Nirvana’s lost treasures long after the band is gone

November 6, 2009September 7, 2018

Favorite Interviews

Getting RNDM: An interview with Jeff Ament

October 29, 2012September 6, 2018

Craig Finn talks about beer, the Boss & his band

September 27, 2009June 12, 2025

Death Cab’s Jason McGerr talks pyro, touring and The Open Door

April 22, 2009March 11, 2025

Brandi Carlile’s music defies categorization

October 26, 2006March 11, 2025

Interview: Dave Grohl & Rivers Cuomo

October 20, 2005March 11, 2025

Interview transcript: A conversation with Chris Cornell

October 14, 2005March 11, 2025

Robert Smith on the ‘incredible’ response to ‘The Cure’

August 26, 2004September 7, 2018

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