Melissa Auf der Maur’s Memoir Mirrors 1990s Rock Attitude and Excess
Hole bassist Melissa Auf der Maur’s memoir goes beyond clichés to offer a truly compelling perspective on the bohemian community of 1990s rock.
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Why Grungegaze Dominates 2026’s Music Underground
Grungegaze is a ubiquitous part of 2026’s rock underground. How did this genre grow from a small group of friends in the 2010s to blossom into a viral internet sensation?
Smashing Pumpkins Deliver on Grunge and Grandeur
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness was a huge triumph in 1995, elevating the Smashing Pumpkins to global icons during their 1996 world tour.
Lemonheads’ Evan Dando Authors His Addictive Hooks
Lemonhead Evan Dando’s long-awaited memoir is an engaging, sometimes harrowing, trip through the 1990s alternative rock boom.
Grunge, the US Underground, and Beyond 1984-1994
Underground rockers slowed things down, opened them up, and used raw power. Gravelly and grimy, grunge was the sound of big guitars recorded on small budgets.
10 of the Best Grunge Era Deep Cuts
Despite a characterization of grunge as “complaining set to a drop-D tuning”, the musicians from the Seattle scene covered a lot of ground. Here are ten highlights.
Courtney Love Ate My Pasta
If we need an example of someone who embodies strength and vulnerability as non-dual, Courtney Love rules. She will also eat your pasta and not give a fuck.
How Nirvana Destroyed Rock’s Toxic Masculinity
Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain despised rock music’s posturing machismo, mocked its fundamental assumptions, and then utterly destroyed the genre.
In Quebec, Bush’s Songs Still Hit with Resilient Strength
Bush’s 90-minute set spanned the band’s entire career, but the real meat of the show consisted of the five miraculously great singles from Sixteen Stone.
Soundgarden Were Popular Heroes of the Video Game Age
Screaming Life was the authentic sound of grunge and set Soundgarden on course to become the Led Zeppelin of the video game age.
How Shinedown Went from Drugs and Angst to Inspirational Advocacy
Hard rock band Shinedown are never quiet about their struggles and never will be as they assure fans that being “slightly awkward, kinda weird” is perfectly normal.
Enumclaw Do Some Soul Searching on ‘Home in Another Life’
Enumclaw’s sophomore LP, Home in Another Life, again delivers 1990s alternative sounds but is confessional in nature and speaks to what ails us.