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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Watch as members of Motley Crue, Poison, Def Leppard and other "hair metal" bands give their opinions about the genre that killed their momentum -- grunge. Warrant singer Jani Lane was one of the ...

The 1990s grunge boom didn't quash everything else in the rock sphere, especially not metal. Though Nirvana and others pushed the '90s buzz for Seattle-derived alt-rock to ubiquity, many a metal band ...