They were the first act to make a splash in New York, with a sweaty, smokey and jam-packed July 1988 show at CBGB during the New Music Seminar conference. Soundgarden helped pave the way for all of them. Sub Pop began a barrage of releases from regional bands - Green River, Mudhoney, The Fluid, Tad, Blood Circus and, of course, a few months later, the first single from Nirvana. The label’s posters, press releases and T-shirts were loaded with giant bold typefaces, F-bombs and phrases like “RIDE THE F-ING SIX PACK” and “WE JUST WANT TO GET HIGH AND F-“ and “SEATTLE GROWS HUGE BANDS.”Īnd as any self-respecting music fan knows, when something new pops up, there’s usually more where it came from. While Green River (which split into Mudhoney and Mother Love Bone and later Pearl Jam) were the first of the many Seattle-area bands of the era to release an album (1985’s “Come on Down,” on New York-based Homestead Records) but it lacked the eye-grabbing graphics, regional attitude and sense of a scene that “Screaming Life” and Sub Pop had. Soundgarden were first - and arguably none of it would have happened without them.
And the band, the label and the photographer were all from Seattle, a city that had barely made a blip on the rock world since the 1960s.Īnyone reading this knows what came next: Nirvana! Pearl Jam! “Singles”! “The Fly-the-Flannel Grunge Revolution”! It was indie-rock you could bang your head and pump your fist to it was hard rock without pomp it reminded you of what was great about those arena-rock albums from middle school, but without the bloated solos and pretense. The sound mirrored the cover perfectly: The band’s heavy riffs and Cornell’s powerful shriek had a lot of Led Zeppelin, but there was also a scrawny attitude and tempos that showed the bandmembers, like a lot of the people who became their fans, had progressed from the Aero-Zeppelin phase of their early teens to the trailblazing American punk rock of bands like Black Flag. | To learn more about this episode, subscribe to our newsletter.Into that world dropped a six-song EP on orange vinyl from a visually savvy new label called Sub Pop - Soundgarden’s “Screaming Life.” While the cover artwork featured a blurry action shot of the band performing - a look that would soon become world-famous and define the entire grunge era, courtesy photographer Charles Peterson - it was centered around a sweaty, shirtless, unabashed rock-god named Chris Cornell. Please take our short, anonymous listener survey: npr.org/invisibiliasurvey. Invisibilia co-founder Lulu Miller went down to visit him in California to try to find out why. Perhaps because he believes that dream is all wrong. He completely abandoned the pursuit of unlocking the secrets of immortality. Millions of dollars are being poured into the dream of extending the human lifespan, which looks increasingly possible. Cellular biologists, aging researchers, and the biotech industry all hold high hopes that there may be some application to slow human aging. In the wake of his discovery-which has been widely confirmed by the scientific community-all kinds of people have thrown themselves into trying to unlock the secrets of how this creature seems to cheat death. Daniel Martinez discovered the unthinkable: a creature that breaks one of the most fundamental laws of life.
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