NEWS
2021/02/21
It’s not unusual to encounter a musician on premises owned by their record company. What’s somewhat rarer is to be chatting to them during a working day in the label’s warehouse. This is where Kerrang! meets Mark Arm, on a lunch break from the job he’s held down for the past 15 years as Sub Pop’s warehouse manager. It’s a situation which reflects the down-to-earth nature of the man and his band. Even in a scene which felt like a reaction to the corporate nature of ‘80s rock, Mudhoney were the least starry of grunge’s prime movers. Mark had been in on the genre’s ground zero when he played in Green River with long-term musical partner Steve Turner, drummer Alex Vincent and future Pearl Jam pair Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard. When that band imploded, ...
