“For those of us who were too young to remember, or for those of us who believed the hype, there is no document more valuable to setting the record straight than Grunge Is Dead, Greg Prato’s oral history of Seattle rock music . . .The accounts are balanced, insightful, and humanizing—anecdotes that entertain, inform, and document the players of a scene that was, in its time, quite misconstrued by the mainstream. The Dwarves’ Blag Dahlia is a refreshingly vicious gadfly. Nancy Layne McCallum, mother of late Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley, offers insights that are both frightening and heartbreaking...Grunge Is Dead is a must-read for anyone wishing to gain an insider’s understanding of the scene that wasn’t. Grunge Is Dead is Please Kill Me for the Seattle sound.”