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 ...
Grunge wasn’t dead yet by the time 1996 came around. And some seriously great music in the alt-rock subgenre hit the charts that year. Let’s take a look at a few grunge songs from 1996 that I, ...
2024 marks 30 years since the release of several iconic '90s grunge rock albums, including Alice in Chains' "Jar of Flies," Soundgarden's "Superunknown," Pearl Jam's "Vitalogy," and Nirvana's seminal ...
After a successful debut, Alice In Chains released 'Dirt' in 1992 with grunge and alternative rock fully embedded in pop ...
Months before Post-Grunge Week was even a glimmer in the eyes of our editors, the idea of the perfect post-grunge karaoke night was planted in my head. My friends and I were at a karaoke bar and ...
Nirvana had no idea that “Smells Like Teen Spirit” would become one of the greatest rock songs of all time and would continue to influence the grunge scene today. After its release, the song ...
Nirvana’s Nevermind came out 32 years ago, serving as the crescendo to an onset wave of grunge music that owned the decade. The rebellious, flannel-wearing generation of teens who rode that wave have ...
The Queen of Christmas may soon become the Queen of Seattle as Mariah Carey is said to be set to release her first-ever ...
Jennifer McHugh is a Los Angeles-based writer. She refuses to binge-watch anything. September 18th marks 30 years since the film Singles was released. Singles is a 1992 film by Cameron Crowe about the ...
For the first wave of grunge superstars, 1991 was “the year punk broke.” For many of the rock bands that were already popular in 1991, it was the year punk broke them. “Basically [grunge] put me out ...
The arrival of grunge music in the '90s put a nail in the coffin of ‘80s rock acts. That’s the story we’ve been sold in the decades since, but it isn’t exactly true. So, it didn't happen in the a ...
Below are the best post-grunge albums of each year during its peak, from 1993 to 2005. Another thing that has set post-grunge apart from grunge is its longevity — there are a lot more post-grunge ...