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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Drummer Barry Kerch grew up as an ’80s metalhead and was initially upset when grunge came along to knock his favorite bands off the hard-rock pedestal. But he soon embraced the Seattle sound, which ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1993 as grunge was cresting, there were some great music videos that impacted the world. These are three we love.

This year’s most interesting electronic music wasn’t interested in playing nice. It was abrasive in spots and unwieldy in others; it conjured images of complex machinery, foreboding alien landscapes, ...

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 ...

The people who mourned Chris Cornell’s suicide last week—in real life, on Twitter, in the media—almost all belong to a very specific demographic. Now in their thirties and early forties, they are ...