Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... SEATTLE —Back in 2005, soon after then-Mayor Greg Nickels officially acknowledged pop music was a big deal in Seattle by adding music to the Office of Film, ...

SEATTLE — Some highlights of a Friday-morning walking tour of Sub Pop’s spacious third-floor office in downtown Seattle: A “wood record” award for the Shins, commemorating sales of 100,000 copies of ...

Grunge music started soft and underground, and then, overnight, it was everywhere. While grunge was certainly alive in the ...

What are some of the best ballads by grunge artists? It’s kind of ironic — grunge is known for being a mostly sullen style of music with a droning atmosphere and emotionally-charged lyrics. However, ...

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 ...

Why is Kurt Cobain so important? Variations of this question about the Nirvana frontman/grunge icon pop up regularly on the popular social forum Reddit. Why did Kurt have such a cult following? What ...