"as ""grunge"". The term ""Seattle sound"" became a marketing ploy for the music industry. In September 1991, the Nirvana album ""Nevermind"" was released, bringing mainstream attention to the music of Seattle. Nirvana's frontman Kurt Cobain loathed the word ""grunge"" and despised the new scene that was developing, stating that the large record companies were buying up Seattle bands, including those that had little to do with the underground music scene: Some bands associated with the genre, such as Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains, have not been receptive to the label, preferring instead to be referred to as ""rock"
"scenes, including Minneapolis and Seattle. Seattle's local scene produced grunge music, a dark and brooding style inspired by hardcore, psychedelia, and alternative rock. With the addition of a more melodic element to the sound of bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains, grunge became wildly popular across the United States in 1991. Three years later, bands like Green Day, The Offspring, Rancid, Bad Religion, and NOFX hit the mainstream (with their respective then-new albums ""Dookie"", ""Smash"", ""Let's Go"", ""Stranger than Fiction"" and ""Punk in Drublic"") and brought the California punk scene exposure worldwide. Heavy metal is characterized"
"of ""unconventional tunings to bend otherwise standard pop songs completely out of shape."" With the addition of a ""melodic, Beatlesque element"" to the sound of bands like Nirvana, grunge became wildly popular across the United States. Grunge became commercially successful in the early 1990s, peaking between 1991 and 1994. Bands from cities in the U.S. Pacific Northwest especially Seattle, Washington, were responsible for creating grunge and later made it popular with mainstream audiences. The supposed Generation X, who had just reached adulthood as grunge's popularity peaked, were closely associated with grunge, the sound which helped ""define the desperation of (that)"
"earliest recordings were done on the Trap label, owned by Greg Sage of the Wipers. Courtney Love lived in the Napalm Beach band house in 1981. Napalm Beach Napalm Beach is an American punk rock band from Portland, Oregon. One of the longest-running punk bands in the U.S., they are credited by some as being early innovators of the grunge sound. Nicholas Pell, writing for the ""Portland Mercury"" said ""a huge influence on the grunge and alternative rock of the 1990s, Napalm Beach never had the name recognition of other Portland bands like Poison Idea or the Wipers."" Napalm Beach"
"Napalm Beach Napalm Beach is an American punk rock band from Portland, Oregon. One of the longest-running punk bands in the U.S., they are credited by some as being early innovators of the grunge sound. Nicholas Pell, writing for the ""Portland Mercury"" said ""a huge influence on the grunge and alternative rock of the 1990s, Napalm Beach never had the name recognition of other Portland bands like Poison Idea or the Wipers."" Napalm Beach shared the stage with bands such as X, Public Image Ltd., Joan Jett, Johnny Thunders, Gun Club, Bad Brains, Soundgarden, Screaming Trees, Mudhoney, Dead Moon, and"
"at major mainstream rock stations. During 1991 and 1992, other grunge albums such as Pearl Jam's ""Ten"", Soundgarden's ""Badmotorfinger"" and Alice in Chains' ""Dirt"", along with the ""Temple of the Dog"" album featuring members of Pearl Jam and Soundgarden, became among the 100 top-selling albums. Major record labels signed most of the remaining grunge bands in Seattle, while a second influx of acts moved to the city in the hope of success. However, with the death of Kurt Cobain and the subsequent break-up of Nirvana in 1994, touring problems for Pearl Jam and the departure of Alice in Chains' lead"
"""The Loco-Motion"" which became the biggest selling single in Australia for the decade and quickly catapulted her to worldwide stardom. The first annual ARIA Music Awards were held in 1987. John Farnham and Crowded House were the most successful artists at the event. Grunge is a subgenre of alternative rock and a subculture that emerged during the in Australia and in the Pacific Northwest U.S. state of Washington. The early grunge movement in the US revolved around Seattle's independent record label Sub Pop and that region's underground music scene. By the early 1990s its popularity had spread, with grunge bands"
"many DIY (as well as legal) venues. While mostly underground and still in existence today, Denver's metal scene has often been neglected by the press. With the 1980-90s came a new generation of music; grunge, thrash and nineties pop. Denver embraced all of these genres without trouble, most notably grunge. Local band The Fluid had several releases on the Sub Pop Record Label during this time. Like Seattle and a number of other cities who experienced the grunge boom, Denver fostered the genre in the early nineties before it quickly died out after the fall of the band Nirvana. A"
"further one gets from Missoula, Montana."" Missoula is home to a diverse and influential music scene. Members of bands such as Deranged Diction (Jeff Ament), which formed in Missoula, later moved to Seattle and became key members of groups such as Green River, Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam, Silkworm, and Love Battery, playing an important role in the birth of the grunge movement. The city is prominently featured in ""Apology Song"" by Oregon indie-band The Decemberists. Prior to moving to Portland, The Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy studied at the University of Montana, where he formed a band named Tarkio. Wantage"
"as Queensrÿche and Metal Church gain popularity, while Seattle native Duff McKagan went on to massive success with Guns N' Roses after relocating to Los Angeles. But it was perhaps the early '90s grunge movement for which Seattle is best known from a musical perspective. During this time such acts as Mother Love Bone, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, Alice in Chains, and Mudhoney (band) scored massive worldwide hits, and turned the musical tide from glam metal to a style that borrowed equally from garage rockers (the Sonics), punk (the Stooges), and '70s heavy metal (Black Sabbath)."
"of these grunge bands prompted ""Rolling Stone"" to nickname Seattle ""the new Liverpool."" Major record labels signed most of the prominent grunge bands in Seattle, while a second influx of bands moved to the city in hopes of success. At the same time, critics asserted that advertising was co-opting elements of grunge and turning it into a fad. ""Entertainment Weekly"" commented in a 1993 article, ""There hasn't been this kind of exploitation of a subculture since the media discovered hippies in the '60s."" ""The New York Times"" compared the ""grunging of America"" to the mass-marketing of punk rock, disco, and"
"and later Pennsylvania immigrants Poison and quickly became known for anthemic hard rock and power ballads, as well as band members' distinctively feminine make-up, hair, and clothing in spite of the scene's macho posturing. This scene would die out in the 1990s due to grunge. The Bay Area thrash scene was centered around Los Angeles and San Francisco in the 1980s and 1990s. Bands associated with this scene include Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Exodus, Vio-lence, Suicidal Tendencies, Dark Angel, Death Angel, D.R.I., Testament, Forbidden, Defiance, Evildead, and Holy Terror. Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth grew up in Los Angeles, where she"
"again disbanded in 1977 and it was permanent. Mondo Bando has also made the Ranker list of most famous Seattle musical acts at the 111 spot. Electra Blue moved on to the Seattle Punk Scene and performed with Violent World for a while before relocating to San Francisco. The Pacific Northwest region – primarily Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia – has been host to a growing scene of Doom metal, Sludge metal and Stoner metal since the 1990s, influenced by the geographical origin of grunge music and a sound pioneered in part by Washington band The Melvins. Common visual themes"
"1980s influenced grunge music, which rose to prominence around Seattle, United States, before impacting on popular music in the early 1990s. The Scientists relied on unorthodox bass-heavy rhythms and distorted guitars, the latter being a direct precursor to grunge. The term grunge was used by Salmon in the mid-1980s to describe The Scientists' sound, which he recalled for the audience in an Australian Broadcasting Corporation documentary series on Australian music, ""Long Way to the Top"", Episode 6: ""Gathering of the Tribes 1984-2000"" on 12 September 2001. Everett True writing for ""The Guardian"" in 2011 disputed that Seattle was the origin"
"Seattle,] because you probably won't see anything like it again."" ""Paste"" magazine's Michael Danaher states that the grunge ""... movement changed the course of rock 'n' roll, bringing ... tales of abuse and depression"" and socially conscious issues"" into pop culture. Calvert stated that Nirvana's ""Smells Like Teen Spirit"" has an ""iconic place in history"" as it had ""generation-defining resonance"" for young people from its era""; he states that ""no other band ... made the urge to self-destruct ... as listenable"", with ""authentic"" pain and ""disaffection. Calvert also calls the record ""chart history's most ferocious, dark and intense"" music since"
"Machine also blended funk & hip hop elements, creating subgenres of this style such as funk metal and rap metal. A subgenre of alternative rock, grunge bands picked up popularity for the early 1990s. Grunge music, and the culture marketed around it, was born out of the Pacific Northwest American states of Washington and Oregon in the 1980s. Artists such as Nirvana, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam brought alternative rock to popularity in 1991. However, many bands were uncomfortable with their success, and were equally suspicious of the grunge label. Nirvana whetted the public's appetite for more direct,"
"1991 in music List of notable events in music that took place in the year 1991. The year 1991 is the year that grunge music made its popular breakthrough. Nirvana's ""Nevermind"", led by the surprise hit single ""Smells Like Teen Spirit"", becomes the most popular U.S. album of the year. Followed immediately by other grunge bands like Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, in 1992 by Alice in Chains and Stone Temple Pilots, grunge dominates the U.S. charts for the next few years. Its success effectively ended the reign of the glam metal and other hard rock groups that enjoyed massive success in"
"successful grunge acts include Foo Fighters, which had a #1 album with ""Wasting Light"" (2011). Seattle is also home to newer alt-grunge-rock acts such as SixTwoSeven. Riot grrrl is a form of punk rock which arose in Olympia in the 1990s and was led by all-female acts like Bikini Kill, known for their militant feminism and raw, uncompromising sound. The genre never achieved mainstream success and soon died out, though stalwarts Sleater-Kinney did stick together and found themselves approaching mainstream audiences after the turn of the millennium. A new wave of the riot grrl movement began around 2010 with bands"
"vocal delivery, Green River greatly influenced both its peers and bands that followed them. Even without the fact that some of its members would later go on to form some of the biggest bands of the Northwest music scene, Green River is still remembered for its musical foresight and innovation, years ahead of the rise of grunge. Green River (band) Green River were an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington in 1984. Although the band had very little commercial impact outside their native Seattle, Green River pioneered the grunge music genre. The grunge style was featured both in Green"
"Grunge grew out of the Pacific Northwest U.S. state of Washington, particularly in Seattle and nearby towns. Prominent bands of this genre include Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains. Industrial metal combines elements of industrial music and heavy metal. It is usually centered around repetitive metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals. Prominent industrial metal groups include Rammstein, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, KMFDM, Fear Factory, Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie and Godflesh. Some musicians emerging from the death metal scene, such as Fear Factory, Nailbomb, Autokrator and Meathook Seed, also began to experiment with industrial."
"the local scene into national fame. Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains and other grunge bands became bestselling groups; many of their earlier fans greeted this development with cries of selling out, and the bands themselves struggled with the irony of alternative rock bands entering mainstream pop culture. Seattle grunge as national fare ended abruptly in a few years, however, beginning with the suicide of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain in 1994. During the 1990s other forms of music were also springing up in the land of grunge, almost as a counter musical movement, including industrial bands such as Kill Switch...Klick,"
"initially referred to as ""The Seattle Sound"" until its rise to popularity in the early 1990s. Grunge featured a sludgy, murky guitar sound that synthesized heavy metal and punk rock. Promoted largely by Seattle indie label Sub Pop, grunge bands were noted for their thrift store fashion which favored flannel shirts and combat boots suited to the local weather. Early grunge bands Soundgarden and Mudhoney found critical acclaim in the U.S. and UK, respectively. By the end of the decade, a number of alternative bands began to sign to major labels. While early major label signings Hüsker Dü and The"
"the ""Billboard"" 200 album chart. Soundgarden's album ""Superunknown"", which was also released in 1994, peaked at number 1 on the ""Billboard"" 200 chart, and was certified 5x platinum by the RIAA. In 1995, Alice in Chains' self-titled album became their second number 1 album on the ""Billboard"" 200, and was certified 2x platinum. At the height of grunge's commercial success in the early 1990s, the commercial success of grunge put record labels on a nationwide search for undiscovered talent to promote. This included San Diego, California-based Stone Temple Pilots, Texas-based Tripping Daisy and Toadies, Paw, Chicago-based Veruca Salt, and Australian"
"Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl's new band, the Foo Fighters, helped popularize the genre and define its parameters. Some post-grunge bands, like Candlebox, were from Seattle, but the subgenre was marked by a broadening of the geographical base of grunge, with bands like Los Angeles' Audioslave, and Georgia's Collective Soul and beyond the US to Australia's Silverchair and Britain's Bush, who all cemented post-grunge as one of the most commercially viable subgenres of the late 1990s. Although male bands predominated post-grunge, female solo artist Alanis Morissette's 1995 album ""Jagged Little Pill"", labelled as post-grunge, also became a multi-platinum hit. Post-grunge morphed"
"Music of Seattle Because Seattle is Washington's largest city, the music of Seattle has long played a major role in the music of Washington, in genres of alternative rock that included grunge, and major bands like Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam. Seattle remains home to several influential bands, labels, and venues. Seattle's music history begins in the mid-19th century, when the first European settlers arrived. In 1909, amidst the boosterism engendered by the city's first world's fair, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, the Seattle City Council adopted ""Seattle, the Peerless City"" (words by Arthur O. Dillon; music by Glenn"
"Grimble Grumble Grimble Grumble is an American psychedelic rock band from Chicago, Illinois. Grimble Grumble formed in 1995, taking their name from a character mentioned in the Pink Floyd song ""The Gnome"". Prior to this, bassist Christine Garcia and guitarist Ruben Rios had been playing together in South Chicago's Slag Valley since they were teenagers in the late 1980s. The group's first release was a split 7-inch record with The Azusa Plane in 1996, and several more singles and EPs followed in the late 1990s. A self-titled compilation of two of the band's EPs was released in 2000, shortly before"
"By the early 1990s, rock was dominated by commercialized and highly produced pop, rock, and ""hair metal"" artists, while MTV had arrived and promoted a focus on image and style. Disaffected by this trend, in the mid-1980s, bands in Washington state (particularly in the Seattle area) formed a new style of rock which sharply contrasted with the mainstream music of the time. The developing genre came to be known as ""grunge"", a term descriptive of the dirty sound of the music and the unkempt appearance of most musicians, who actively rebelled against the over-groomed images of popular artists. Grunge fused"
"The Meyce, The Telepaths, Visible Targets, Chinas Comidas, X-15 (band) and UC5. Hardcore skinhead bands like Extreme Hate, The Boot Boys and Firing Squad also gained a following. Green River, a punk rock band that splintered into Mudhoney and Mother Love Bone, was one of the first grunge bands. Also drawing on the punk rock scene were Melvins, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Fitz of Depression of Olympia and Vitimin C of Centralia. Musician Duff McKagan made his entry into the global rock scene in the punk rock scene of his hometown of Seattle. On the other side of the state, Spokane also"
"and a desire for freedom. A number of factors contributed to grunge's decline in prominence. During the , many grunge bands broke up or became less visible. Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, labeled by ""Time"" as ""the John Lennon of the swinging Northwest"", appeared unusually tortured by success and struggled with an addiction to heroin before he died by suicide at the age of 27 in 1994. The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word ""grunge"": In audio engineering, the term ""dirty"" or ""fuzzy"" describes ""the opposite of clear, clean sound. A dirty tone would have some amount of noise, distortion, or overdrive"
"major labels and came to incorporate diverse influences from jangle pop, punk-pop, alternative metal or hard rock. The term post-grunge was meant to be pejorative, suggesting that they were simply musically derivative, or a cynical response to an ""authentic"" rock movement. From 1994, former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl's new band, the Foo Fighters, helped popularize the genre and define its parameters. Some post-grunge bands, like Candlebox, were from Seattle, but the subgenre was marked by a broadening of the geographical base of grunge, with bands like Los Angeles' Audioslave, and Georgia's Collective Soul, who all cemented post-grunge as one of"
"became popular with acts such as the Fabulous Flippers, The Blue Things, the Red Dogs, The Serfs, Eric & The Norsemen, Don Gould's The Sensational Showmen, Wade Flemons, and Mike Finnigan traveling the Midwest and releasing regional singles. In the early 1980s, Wichita, Topeka, and Lawrence, together with Kansas City, Missouri had a significant hardcore punk scene, centered at Lawrence's University of Kansas campus, and later at the Outhouse. Among the most popular bands were The Embarrassment, Get Smart!, and Mortal Micronotz. In the 1990s, Kansas produced some bands that found regional and national success taking the predominant grunge aesthetic"
"between the two groups helped inspire the look and sound of grunge, a term allegedly coined by Mark McLaughlin of the brief joke band Mr. Epp and the Calculations who gained some local notoriety. In 1985, two local bands began their careers, later become well-known icons of the era: The U-Men and Green River, the latter of which was the true beginning of grunge. Local music author Clark Humphrey has attributed the rise of grunge, in large part, to the scene's ""supposed authenticity"", to its status as a ""folk phenomenon, a community of ideas and styles that came up from"
"Java Barn The Java Barn, established in 1993 as a student-run coffeehouse at St. Lawrence University (SLU), it is a well-known venue among touring bands on the East Coast of the United States, including those who have risen to fame such as ""Grace Potter and the Nocturnals"", ""Ani DiFranco"", ""Guster"", ""Dave Matthews Band"", and ""Vertical Horizon"". In the early-mid 1980s, there was a popular folk music scene, especially in northern New York state, known as the ""North Country."" At SLU, groups of students, interested in having live music at the school, petitioned and established a coffeehouse in Payson Hall, one"