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 ...

Grunge really took off in the 90s, but there were a handful of grunge bands who were drafting the blueprints of the genre in the late 80s as well. Many of these bands, of course, started in Seattle, ...

Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil says the bands who made up the Seattle grunge scene never used the word to describe themselves. Instead, says Thayil, the word 'grunge' was used as a marketing ...

Late Alice in Chains frontman Layne Staley’s unpublished writings and artwork have been collected in a new book, ‘This Angry ...

Matt Cameron, drummer for the famous Seattle grunge band Pearl Jam, has announced his retirement after 27 years with the group. Cameron took over as the drummer for Pearl Jam in 1998, replacing Jack ...

Grunge rock pioneers Soundgarden announced plans earlier this week to release one final album featuring vocals recorded by late frontman Chris Cornell. Cornell, who also performed in Audioslave, ...

Of course it's a story about death and Seattle music. I woke up this morning after bad dreams last night, only to find the real nightmare — that Chris Cornell of Soundgarden was dead. As with all ...

When Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard looks back on the post-grunge era in Seattle, he doesn’t immediately think of his own band—he thinks of Modest Mouse. For Gibbard, whose Bellingham-born group ...

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