Grunge music. The sludgy, buzzy stuff born in the Pacific Northwest really gained traction in popular culture in the early and mid-1990s. Thanks to bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, and ...
Trends in music come and go, and former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Brad Gillis believes that the electric guitar needed grunge music to shake up the scene. The Honolulu-born guitarist was drafted into ...
You’ve heard it before: an ’80s hard rock or hair metal musician blaming the popularity of grunge on the downfall of the ’80s scene, which included bands like Mötley Crüe, Ratt and Guns N’ Roses. The ...
In the 1980s, grunge music was just getting going. In the Pacific Northwest, a region isolated by geography and constantly bombarded by rain, musicians were playing songs back then that reflected ...
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 ...
Grunge certainly left its mark on the music world, arguably overturning the whole music scene in one fell swoop in 1991 and 1992. But did grunge "kill" hair metal? It's a topic that's often been ...