Tag: grunge

  • This is Grunge

    What is such-and-such a time/place/scene in music? We’ll ask and answer from time to time. This is a quick ‘n’ easy one: What is grunge? This is grunge: A punk/heavy metal hybrid that emerged in Seattle during the late 1980s. Guitars were sludgy, lyrics typically angst-filled, shirts flannel, and authenticity valued above most else. The…

  • It’s a Book, It’s a Playlist: Everybody Loves Our Town, by Mark Yarm

    It’s an oral history of grunge, it’s a playlist. Here are the Mark Yarm’s Seattle grunge essentials, dumped into Spotify for your time/space-travelling pleasure. The author’s complete list, without Spotify holes: 1. Mudhoney “Touch Me I’m Sick” 2. U-Men “They” 3. Green River “Ain’t Nothing to Do” 4. Soundgarden “Nothing to Say” 5. Nirvana “Love…

  • “Into the Black”

    The death of Kurt Cobain (4/5/94)–and the end of grunge–profiled the summer after in Spin (via Longform): Seattle bid goodbye to Kurt Cobain on April 10 in true grunge-rock style, bursting the ranks of a quickly organized public vigil and leaping into the nearby international fountain, a giant, water-spouting structure some 50 yards wide and…