Five grunge/alt rock songs from the 1990s by Stone Temple Pilots, Veruca Salt, Nirvana, The Cranberries, and Pearl Jam that ...

90s grunge had its moments of clarity, but these three songs definitely don't fall into that category, instead delighting in ...

After chancing across an admittedly unlovely '90s deodorant, a raucous evening and a scrawled, misunderstood joke led to one ...

Grunge music leaned into heavy guitar. Indeed, these are three grunge songs from the 1990s that use the wah-wah pedal like ...

Grunge music, as a genre, is decades old at this point, but the grunge sound is still very influential in music and remains one of rock's most recognizable styles. From Nirvana to Soundgarden, grunge ...

If you ask those who followed the grunge movement closely, they’ll tell you that 1994 was the beginning of the end. The rock sub-genre’s biggest star, Kurt Cobain, died on April 5, 1994, and with him, ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...

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Founded in 1986, Sub Pop Records was literally and figuratively instrumental in the growth and promulgation of grunge music. Thanks to the efforts of label heads Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman and ...

Before the internet killed everything, video killed the radio star. When MTV was created in 1981, cable TV and not FM radio became the way youth discovered new music. The songs and the art behind them ...

Michael Blutman proudly holds a bag from Tower Records, a storied defunct chain of record stores that sold many grunge records in the early ‘90s. (Photo courtesy of JerEcho) The music world recently ...

When people think of grunge music, images of a rainy Seattle and flannel shirts may come to mind, as bands like Nirvana and Soundgarden made the city synonymous with the genre. But the seeds of what ...