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HAPPY THANKSGIVING FROM GRUNGEREPORT.NET

By: 22 November 2012 33 Comments

Happy Thanksgiving to all American readers on GrungeReport.net! To all other readers, happy Thursday! And to me, happy birthday I guess as today is my 21st birthday. On Thanksgiving people seem to reflect on what they’re thankful for, so I thought I’d do that here (readers are welcome to as well) when it comes to what I am thankful for in alternative rock and GrungeReport.net.

I am thankful that so far this year I have seen the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane’s Addiction, Stone Temple Pilots, The Smashing Pumpkins, Bush, RNDM (featuring Jeff Ament), and Cage the Elephant. I am also thankful for Soundgarden releasing their new album King Animal, and that I’ve got tickets to see them next week. I’m also thankful for the new Mark Lanegan and Smashing Pumpkins albums released this year.

Regarding the site, I am thankful that our traffic is as high as ever and that I was able to interview Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament just two days ago. While we don’t have too many writers right now, I am very happy with the staff we have assembled so far. Also, a note regarding the site, there is a new name I have chosen for GrungeReport.net that we should change to by early 2013. I am planning on taking donations on the site sometime next week since it is an expensive domain. I kind of feel weird about asking readers for some money, but the price for the domain is pretty hefty and even if readers could kick in 20-30% of the cost of it I would be grateful. I have to keep the domain I have chosen a secret until I have purchased it, but I can promise it is a name that will stay true to what the site is about.

33 Comments »

  • Kristin said:

    Oh hey, you’re only a few months older than me. Well then Happy Birthday!

    I am so very thankful for Soundgarden’s new album, and that my Spread the word of good newer grunge bands page has taken off and has over 400 bands that have been posted and almost 1,000 likes so far, and that people actually seem to be coming around to knowing about those bands rather than just spewing “grunge is dead” all the time.

  • Andrei said:

    Happy birthday, bro!

    And Happy Thanksgiving to all of my American friends!

  • Andrei said:

    I’m thankful that this year I have seen the Red Hot Chili Peppers live! That was awesome! I’m also thankful for this great community of people. Next year we’re taking this to a new level.

  • Russ said:

    Happy Birthday!

  • Markus said:

    Happy birthday!

  • Is he one? said:

    Happy birthday man. Happy thanksgiving to all american folks.

    Thankful for Oceania, King Animal, Grouplove and the SP show in Montréal last october 28th! ;)

  • Big M said:

    Happy Birthday Brett and keep up the great work you do here on Grunge Report! Enjoy your 21st, its all downhill from there hahaha

  • Butthole sniffer said:

    Hello Brett,

    Happy birthday man!!! Thanks for the great website!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Mikey said:

    Happy B-day, happy thanksgiving and thanks for such a great site! keep up the good work man and i’m thankful i have this site to check out!

  • Robert said:

    Happy birthday and Thanksgiving.

  • Spoonman said:

    Happy Thanksgiving. Im thankful for King Animal, best thing to happen to me since birth

  • SUICYCO said:

    Happy birthday buddy, and thank you for this awesome website! Can’t believe you’re only 21! You’re just a kid dude!!! That’s awesome. I’m an old fucker at 37.

  • Grunge Addict said:

    Happy Birthday Buddy, Love the site, keep up the great work

  • GenXLady said:

    Happy Birthday, and thanks for providing this forum, Brett. I can’t believe you are such a young guy. As you can see by my name, I am not so young anymore. But that is what good music is about, right? It brings all ages together in appreciation.

    I am thankful for all of the musicians that create the music that plays in my car, home and head as I go through life. Happy Thanksgiving to all!

  • Pete said:

    Thank Brett for all your hard work! To think that I am dependent on a guy who was born when grunge first broke out for my grunge news is awesome!

  • Gyven2fly said:

    Happy birthday and happy turkey! Long live Grunge!

  • SuperSG said:

    Your the Man Brett, keep spreading the good word, and Im looking forward to “NewnameReport.net”!

  • red said:

    happy birthday!gobble,gobble!

  • Superunknown said:

    Happy Birthday man! This site is the best!

  • Jack Irons said:

    Happy Thanksgiving to all….

    On this day, I give thanks I don’t have to sit through 2 hours of hypocritical preaching from everyone’s favorite capitalist.

  • BonerJam said:

    Please give this site a facelift, and I don’t mean the Alice record. It is getting old and stale.

  • Nicole Malczan said:

    Happy birthday Brett!

  • Jeanne said:

    Happy birthday Brett!! Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Grateful for this site because it reminds me that there are still good bands out there, and the really good ones (Like Alice in Chains) are always going to be an influence in the lives of people across the world.

  • Search and Destroy said:

    Happy 21st !!

  • Magic Mike Mazzarone said:

    I’m thankful to still have a job after the destruction that Hurricane Sandy did to where I live.

  • SuperSG said:

    Hey MJM! Glad ya made it back and hope that everyone you know is fine! :)

  • Paul said:

    Happy birthday Brett, and good to have you back Mike!

  • mom in the box said:

    Happy birthday and hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving!

  • Big Dumb Ex said:

    Happy Birthday Brett! I’d say you are doing pretty well for only 21. My birthday has fallen on Thanksgiving before too, but this year it waited until Monday. Thanks for keeping us all updated on the bands that we love!

  • Tony (uk) said:

    Happy birthday!

  • Christine said:

    We will do what we can,…. (sets additional coin saving jar aside for grungereport.net next to QofSA and Jane’s Savings Jar)

  • Sasa said:

    Happy BD and Thanksgiving to you and to all Americans. It’s great to see young people like you have such admiration to grunge and alternative music, the music that still lives and will never vanish for the generation of mid-30′s. Thanks for keeping us updated to all new, and old, news, events and everything that goes around the music we all love. As for the name change of this website, it’s OK I don’t mind, but if you change the look of the page itself, do not complicate a lot because I like the simplicity and clarity of information. This is one of the few pages that I’ve bookmarked, so keep up the good work.

  • dakotablue said:

    Happy Happy Brett, lookin’ good baby (little thin though)!
    thanks for all your work and stories about Layne and Chains

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