Mudhoney: The Sound and the Fury from Seattle

While they never enjoyed the commercial and popular success of Nirvana or Soundgarden, Mudhoney is one of grunge's seminal groups. Formed in the suburbs of Seattle in 1988 out of the ashes of the protogrunge band Green River, which included future members of Pearl Jam, Mudhoney went on to help define and influence the metal/punk musical genre that went global in the early 1990s. In this first full bio of the group, Cameron (contributing editor, Mojo magazine) stakes a claim for the band as one of the key pioneers and innovators in the scene. The author's history of the group is deftly done—a compelling combination of setting the scene from which they emerged and letting the musicians tell their own story. While it is primarily a book about Mudhoney, it is necessarily a memoir of the grunge scene, and should be considered alongside key titles such as Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life and Mark Yarm's Everybody Loves Our Town.