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Generation X. Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle sound) is an alternative rock genre and subculture which emerged during the mid-1980s in the U.S. state of Washington, particularly in Seattle and nearby towns. Grunge fuses elements of punk rock and heavy metal. [3] The genre featured the distorted electric guitar sound used in both ...
- Grunge (Disambiguation)
Grunge is a genre of Rock music.. Grunge may also refer to:...
- List of Grunge Bands
Elsewhere in United States. Dandelion (Philadelphia,...
- Post-grunge
Post-grunge is an offshoot of grunge that has a less...
- Soundgarden
Soundgarden was an American rock band formed in Seattle,...
- Dry as a Bone
Overview. In June 1986, the band began production on its...
- Tina Bell
Tina Marie Bell (February 5, 1957 – c. October 10, 2012) was...
- Green River
Green River was an American rock band formed in Seattle,...
- Kinderwhore
Kat Bjelland wearing a kinderwhore outfit in 1992....
- List of American grunge bands
This is a list of American grunge bands. It includes rock...
- Grunge (Disambiguation)
- Nirvana
- Green River
- Pearl Jam
- Soundgarden
- Alice in Chains
- Mudhoney
- Mother Love Bone
- The Smashing Pumpkins
- Hole
- Stone Temple Pilots
As arguably the most successful mainstream grunge band, Nirvana is synonymous with the genre. Their second album, 1991’s Nevermind, burst onto the airways as a surprise success and cultural phenomenon, making the group a household name. The band sold 30 million albums during their meteoric rise to the big time and “represented the leading edge of a...
Green River (a name reportedly inspired by the Green River Killer) is another group behind the birth of the Seattle scene. Hailed by many as the first grunge band, they released their debut EP Come On Down in 1985 and helped boost the indie prestige of the Sub Pop label with their follow-up EP, Dry As a Bone, in 1987. The group‘s first—and only—ful...
Pearl Jam was established in 1990 and draws its roots from Mother Love Bone and Green River—two bands that weren’t as commercially successful as some of their peers, but helped to establish the foundation for the grunge sound. Through radio and MTV hit songs like “Jeremy,” Pearl Jam‘s audience grew, and a show-stopping appearance at Lollapalooza in...
Established in 1984 in Seattle, Washington, Soundgarden was one of the original groups to release an album on Sub Pop Records, the Seattle label that helped put grunge on the map. Soundgarden’s EPs on the label inspired Kurt Cobain to start recording Bleach, Nirvana’s debut album, with Sub Pop in December 1988. While Soundgarden’s early success was...
Alice in Chains was one of the heavier-sounding bands to emerge during the grunge era, in part due to its metal roots (original vocalist Layne Staley was in the ‘80s glam metal band Sleze, which was later rechristened Alice N‘ Chains). Their first album, 1990‘s Facelift, technically preceded Nirvana’s Nevermind, but didn‘t race up the charts as the...
As an offshoot of Green River, Mudhoney was one of the first groups to gain attention off the Sub Pop label with their 1989 self-titled album. The band, established in 1988, did briefly score a major-label deal with Reprise Records/Warner Bros, leading to albums like 1992‘s Piece of Cake, which peaked at No. 189 on the Billboard 200. The group has ...
As a band, Mother Love Bone was the “bones” of what would later become Pearl Jam and influenced both grunge and the emerging alternative metal scene. While recording their full-length debut, vocalist Andrew Wood checked himself into rehab but later overdosed on heroin in March 1990, just a few days before the scheduled release of the band‘s only fu...
While The Smashing Pumpkins enjoyed tremendous success during the grunge era, the band is hard to define musically and drew heavily from goth and metal influences. They released their second single, “Tristessa,” on Sub Pop in 1990, but found mainstream success after signing with Virgin Records in 1991 and releasing 1993’s Siamese Dream, which inclu...
Formed in Los Angeles in 1989, Hole initially pulled from punk influences: Frontwoman Courtney Love actually appeared in the 1986 Alex Cox film Sid and Nancy, about the doomed romance between Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen (Love even auditioned for the lead role of Nancy, but didn‘t get it). Love gained internation...
Stone Temple Pilots is another band that didn’t exactly fit the grunge mold, yet still made a significant impact on the genre’s landscape. Originally known as Mighty Joe Young, their debut album, Core, was released on Atlantic Records in 1992 and featured notable hits like “Plush” and “Creep,“ which were on heavy MTV rotation in the ‘90s. The band ...
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As chronicled by Northwest Passage, a website dedicated to preserving the history of the late '80s and early '90s Seattle scene, grunge as a pure musical statement defined by a fuzz, feedback, and a fusion of punk and heavy metal had become so diluted by the early 1990s that the mainstream applied the term to any band hailing from the Northwest.
Oct 6, 2022 · The 25 Best Grunge Albums of the ’90s These are the records—by Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Hole, PJ Harvey, Melvins, and more—that defined the decade’s most influential genre. By Stuart Berman and ...
postpunk. grunge, genre of rock music that flourished in the late 1980s and early ’90s and, secondarily, its attendant fashion. The term grunge was first used to describe the murky-guitar bands (most notably Nirvana and Pearl Jam) that emerged from Seattle in the late 1980s as a bridge between mainstream 1980s heavy metal –hard rock and ...
