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Though the subgenre had a rather short-lived reign, these are our picks for the best grunge albums of each year from 1987 to 1996. Check out our documentary video, "Who Invented Grunge?," on our ...

A couple of weeks ago, Pearl Jam played the American Airlines Center and rocked the hell out of the place. But after all of these years, can anyone still call Pearl Jam a grunge band? As someone who ...

The grunge era of the 1990s was truly out of this world for anyone who got to experience it firsthand. For those who didn’t get to see the rise and fall of major musicians and bands in the genre at ...

There were a lot of rock bands that became popular between the mid-1980s and '90s in Seattle, and despite their sonic differences, most of them were categorized under the term grunge. Alice in Chains' ...

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 ...

The golden era of grunge has come and gone, and many of the biggest albums of that particular era came after each respective band’s first album release. Still, a few debut albums from the heyday of ...

No grunge band had a greater balance of cool and commotion as L7, as demonstrated on the ferociously excellent Wargasm. The opener on their breakthrough 1992 record Bricks Are Heavy, it’s a snarling, ...

What’s the heaviest song by some of your favorite alt-rock and grunge bands? Let’s find out! When it comes to alternative rock, the genre’s weight isn’t always measured in down-tuned guitars or double ...

Grunge is in the air this year, as 2019 is the 25th anniversary of the end of grunge’s reign. 1994 was really the last year that grunge was the dominant style of alternative rock, and, sadly, it was ...

What starts a movement? It’s a complicated question that often has no one answer. Throughout history, true movements – that is, where music, art, fashion and culture have all coalesced in a singular ...