Grunge was a dominant genre in the 1990s, but it didn’t dominate everything as these heartland rock classics prove.

Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett argues that the best part about Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl" is actually a recording flub.

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 ...

Drummer Barry Kerch grew up as an ’80s metalhead and was initially upset when grunge came along to knock his favorite bands off the hard-rock pedestal. But he soon embraced the Seattle sound, which ...

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 ...

Flannel shirts, tortured rock stars and teen spirit - the story of Seattle music is pop culture mythology. But the weirdest chapter of that story, the Teen Dance Ordinance, is often overlooked. While ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...