Grunge was at its peak in 1993, and these three songs from that era still make it to my rotation on a regular basis.
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 ...
Grunge music blended punk rock and heavy metal and is most associated with bands from Seattle. The songs were dark, full of angst, and seemed to reflect the gloomy weather of the Pacific Northwest.
Though no-one in the Pacific North-West's tightly-knit music community ever liked, much less embraced, the term 'grunge' as a description for the punk/metal/garage/sludge hybrid which oozed out of ...
"Grunge," according to Webster's, denotes "one that [who] is grungy." As for "grungy," the word meets one of several definitions, none of them flattering: dirty, filthy, stained, nasty, muddy, smudged ...
Here are the most psychedelic-sounding songs by different grunge bands. Grunge is a fusion of a lot of different styles of heavy music, but some of the most prevalent genres that influenced its ...
What are the best albums by some of the biggest post-grunge bands? Post-grunge may sound a bit self-explanatory, but it's doesn't simply include every rock band that got big after the Seattle grunge ...
Trends in music come and go, and former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Brad Gillis believes that the electric guitar needed grunge music to shake up the scene. The Honolulu-born guitarist was drafted into ...
The year grunge exploded: How Pearl Jam and Nirvana transformed American music culture FOX Nation’s new series ‘Who Can Forget? The ‘90s’ revisits the popularization of grunge music, discussing how ...
Allison and Katie Crutchfield first began collaborating at home in Birmingham, Alabama as young teens. In a 2006 documentary about their first band the Ackleys, 17-year-old Allison discussed the ...
SEATTLE — Seattle-based Soundgarden, one of the pioneers of grunge music in the 1980s, is a nominee for inclusion in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year. Soundgarden, formed in Seattle in 1984, ...