The golden era of grunge has come and gone, and many of the biggest albums of that particular era came after each respective band’s first album release. Still, a few debut albums from the heyday of ...

The grunge era of the 1990s was truly out of this world for anyone who got to experience it firsthand. For those who didn’t get to see the rise and fall of major musicians and bands in the genre at ...

Though the subgenre had a rather short-lived reign, these are our picks for the best grunge albums of each year from 1987 to 1996. Check out our documentary video, "Who Invented Grunge?," on our ...

Kids of the ’80s have to face the fact that it’s time to put that “Beat It” jacket in cold storage, because the ’90s are officially all the nostalgia rage. While the editor of this blog was ...

A couple of weeks ago, Pearl Jam played the American Airlines Center and rocked the hell out of the place. But after all of these years, can anyone still call Pearl Jam a grunge band? As someone who ...

And finally, a subscription to Creem, the music magazine founded in 1969 and reissued in 2022, would be a great gift for the audiophile who misses reading Lester Bangs.

When people think of grunge music, images of a rainy Seattle and flannel shirts may come to mind, as bands like Nirvana and Soundgarden made the city synonymous with the genre. But the seeds of what ...

For the first wave of grunge superstars, 1991 was “the year punk broke.” For many of the rock bands that were already popular in 1991, it was the year punk broke them. “Basically [grunge] put me out ...