The 1980s were a remarkable decade for electric guitar, when musicians pushed speed, technique, and showmanship to ...

There was no escaping grunge in the 1990s, nor was there any escaping the inevitable road it would lead rock music down. The old guard of rock music that dominated the charts before grunge came along ...

(Quarto) Motorbooks announces GRUNGE! The Story of the Music That Redefined Rock, an authoritative chronicle of the Seattle music movement that transformed rock 'n' roll in the early 1990s. Written by ...

After the passing of Kurt Cobain and the changing tides of rock music in the mid-1990s, grunge was starting to head out the door. It wouldn’t disappear completely from the mainstream until around the ...

When grunge broke through in 1991, it marked the official end of the 1980s. Rock bands were already beginning to shift out of glam metal BY 1990, trading makeup and leather for flannel shirts and torn ...

There are times when music can bring about a societal revolution. That was certainly the case in the late 1960s, when rock and roll spoke for the counterculture in a time of war. It happened again in ...

Grunge music started soft and underground, and then, overnight, it was everywhere. While grunge was certainly alive in the 1980s, thanks to labels such as Sub Pop Records, it wasn't well known yet.

While it’s true that the history of rock music is filled with tragic stories, it’s also true that the history of grunge music—a much smaller sliver of rock’s history—is practically saturated in sad ...

"Grunge," according to Webster's, denotes "one that [who] is grungy." As for "grungy," the word meets one of several definitions, none of them flattering: dirty, filthy, stained, nasty, muddy, smudged ...