Ten Years Since Temple of the Dog Finally Toured
The phone call that brought 90 back 90 The Original started as a skateboarding brand and became part of the Seattle music scene in the early '90s, ...
Ten at Thirty-Five: Memory, Community and Pearl Jam Twenty
Getting hold of Pearl Jam Twenty is no easy feat, especially in Europe. The book has, without much exaggeration, become something of a collector’s ...
Inside the RKCNDY Show That Filmed "Alive" and brought Temple of the Dog for a surprise show.
There's a version of this story most people already know: on August 3, 1991, Pearl Jam played a sweaty all-ages club in Seattle called RKCNDY, and ...
CONCERT REVIEW - The Pretty Reckless & Paris Jackson at ACL Live - Austin, TX - July 23, 2026
From the opening moments, it was clear The Pretty Reckless had become a different live band since the last time I saw them. Taylor Momsen has alway...
Soundgarden: The Sculpture Behind the Name (and Why You Can't Visit It Anymore)
Everyone assumes they know this one. Soundgarden, the Seattle band, named after a wind sculpture in Seattle called A Sound Garden. Case closed, rig...
What do we buy when we buy something that isn't for sale? Reading 'Not Dead & Not for Sale', a memoir by Scott Weiland and David Ritz
"I am, I am, I said, I'm not myself / But I'm not dead, and I'm not for sale," sang Scott Weiland in Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart. With thos...
Sitting Down With Kim Thayil at Easy Street Records
A Screaming Life: Into the Superunknown with Soundgarden and Beyond is Kim Thayil's first book. A memoir from the guitarist who co-founded Soundgar...
How Soundgarden Started Wearing 90 The Original — And Why the Stretch Was Their First Choice
December 1989. The beginning of a story that took 35 years to tell fully. Before Soundgarden were on the cover of Rolling Stone. Before Superunknow...
“A Screaming Life” by Kim Thayil with Adem Tepedelen- book review.
“A Screaming Life” by Kim Thayil with Adem Tepedelen Into the Superunknown with Soundgarden and Beyond What elevates this book beyond a traditional...
Krist Novoselic on Grunge, Politics, and Democracy
The arrival of a new book corner at 90 the Original is a great opportunity for me to share something I have been immersed...
Getting Closer to Layne Staley, One Page at a Time
After Layne Staley passed in 2002, his personal notebooks, journals filled with lyrics, thoughts, drawings - stayed private with his family for ye...
35 Years of Temple of the Dog — and a Walk Through Seattle That Still Feels Like the Record
On April 16, 1991, Temple of the Dog was released. 35 years later, it is still one of the most beloved album of the 90s. In a 1991 KISW interview, ...