Loser: The Real Seattle Music Story: 20th Anniversary Edition

The Seattle music scene burst onto the world stage as the 20th century ended. But most accounts of this phenomenon from Time magazine to MTV to uncountable Cobain-sploitation books sucked.Despite what clueless media said there never was one single Seattle Sound. But there was an overall Seattle attitude. The best of our bands werent trying to break into the corporate rock pantheon but to demolish it.Like the Web the Seattle Scene was all about decentralizing culture about putting the means of production and distribution into more hands about honest heartfelt expression. You dont have to be from NY LA or SF to make music or art. Youre the superstar as Krist Novoselic says.This is the tale I relate in LOSER: The Real Seattle Music Story.Achingly detailed and lavishly illustrated it chronicles two decades of pre-punk punk post-punk and neo-punk music in Seattle and the Northwest.It includes all the bands who made it big and plenty who didnt but are still worth remembering.Read all about the interconnected origins and spectacular rise of Nirvana Pearl Jam Soundgarden Alice in Chains Hole Screaming Trees Mudhoney TAD the Posies Love Battery Gas Huffer Seven Year Bitch Flop Fastbacks the Supersuckers Sir Mix-A-Lot Built to Spill Bikini Kill Sky Cries Mary the Young Fresh Fellows Beat Happening the Presidents of the United States of America and all your other early-90s Seattle music favorites.Originally published in late 1995 its back in a (slightly late) twentieth anniversary edition.Its got over 240 big pages with over 800 illustrations. The new version has even more pix and stories an updated discography and many whatever became of listings.Loser remains the most lavish and detailed account of a phenomenon that rocked the world.