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Anyone else surprised at the lack of Kim’s contribution to the songwriting in Soundgarden? I recently perused the Wikipedia pages for their albums and was shocked to see his name sparsely credited on their songs.

Didn’t Caleb say that it would drop in the early part of this year? Or am I remembering wrong. We’re creeping up on the mid way point of 2026. Any new news? Any speculation?

Just wondering if this book is going to be a white page/text only autobiography or if it’s going to have a “scrapbook” approach. Anyone know? Are there advance copies in circulation yet?

With Ten turning 35 this year, I've been thinking a lot about this conversation I recorded with Jeff Ament for my podcast — specifically this clip where he unpacks his relationship with the word "grunge" in real time.

A few things in here that I didn't expect:

• He's pretty clear that "grunge" always felt like a Sub Pop/Mudhoney/Melvins term to him — not Pearl Jam's. He was in Green River with Mark Arm, so he felt connected to it, but he and Stone always wanted to push further out the moment a sound started to define them.
• He knew Chris Novoselic five years before Nevermind existed. The way he frames the scene isn't nostalgia — it's more like a neighborhood he grew up in.
• The part that actually stopped me: he talks about the people who are gone now — Kurt, Layne, Mark Lanegan — and how the resentment of being grouped together has flipped into something closer to wanting to champion them. Hard not to feel that.
• He calls it "the last real scene" and then immediately asks if I'd seen Meet Me in the Bathroom — which says something about how he's still measuring it.

Short clip, about two and a half minutes. Felt like the right moment to share it given the anniversary.