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 ...

Grunge music is known for its moody, dark, sludgy sounds. And one aspect of the style, which was born in the Pacific Northwest in the late 1980s and continued through popular culture into the 1990s, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The New York Times has a long and complicated history with the word grunge. Let’s get down and dingy in it. By Sarah Diamond In Word Through The Times, we trace how one word or phrase has changed ...

A Tribute to Grunge concert will be at 8 p.m. Friday at The Auricle Venue & Bar in downtown Canton. Canton area bands will perform music by Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden and Stone ...