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Born in the ’70s, rap music came of age in the ’80s. At first, the stuff was made by taking disco song breaks and playing them on repeat while...
Grunge music was born in Seattle, Washington. Officially, the genre started some time in the 1980s and rose to become perhaps the most dominant art...
The genre of grunge may not have become the global phenomenon it did had it not been for Jack Endino. Born in Southbury, Connecticut, Endino moved to...
When the clock struck 12:01 a.m. on January 1, 1990, it was almost like the grunge fairy waved her wand and the gloomy, buzzy subgenre of rock became...
There are times when life reflects art. When a work is so strong that people in the real world mimic it, quote it, or even recreate their surroundings...
Your music choices say a lot about you. Are you a classic rock fan who wants to flex to big guitar solos? Do you like solemn grunge music that makes...
Music is a wonderful thing. It plays with your physiology, oftentimes without your notice. You press play on a song and your toes begin to tap...
In the ’90s, if you heard a sad song on the radio, there was a good chance it was written by a grunge artist. “Jeremy,” “Poly,” “Fell on...
The grunge music scene was like a Shakespearean drama that played out over a decade. The musical style, which rose to fame in the late ’80s and was...
When it comes to culture, nothing happens in a vacuum. Everything is connected, whether we can see it at first or not. One choice can impact a year, a...
When it comes to grunge, there are giant names that almost every music fan knows. From Pearl Jam to Nirvana to Soundgarden to Alice in Chains, the...
Officially, grunge music started in the mid-to-late ’80s and continued on through the mid-to-late ’90s. The decade-long period produced heavy...
In 2016, when songwriter and performer K.Flay released her hit single, “Blood in the Cut,” it marked a major moment in her career. The rhythmic...
This weekend, the NBA playoffs officially begin. After 82 games, the in-season tournament and the play-in games, it’s been a long trek to get here....
Rhiannon Giddens is a flame-keeper. At any given moment, she is keeping history alive. Music alive. Stories alive. Authenticity alive. But she does...
When it comes to the world of music, it’s often the artists who hold the microphone that we remember most. Whether it’s lead singers like Kurt...
For many music fans, the ’90s represent the Golden Era of rap music. You had established stars like Run-DMC, LL Cool J, and Beastie Boys still...
Despite all the sludgy sounds, despite all the raucous music, the buzzy guitars, and the screeching lyrics, grunge music had a purity about it in the...
The golden era of grunge music lasted for about a decade between the late 1980s and the late 1990s. Born in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest, the...
The Duluth, Minnesota-born songwriter and performer Bob Dylan has released dozens of albums. More than 50. Some are collections of cover songs, some...
L.A. Witch is the Platonic Ideal of an indie rock band. The trio of Sade Sanchez, Irita Pai, and Ellie English constructs thick, buzzy tracks that...
When music scholars look back at the late ’80s and early ’90s to consider the sonic phenomenon that was grunge, a few things become instantly...
When there’s a new phenomenon in pop culture, our knee-jerk reaction is to think that it came out of nowhere. Watching the salacious performances of...
Sometimes you don’t want to celebrate the sunshine, the balloons, or happier things in life. Sometimes you want to draw the shades, dim the lights,...
When Paul McCartney co-founded the Beatles with his fellow Liverpool mates, he was still just in his late teens. Born on June 18, 1942, McCartney...
It’s sort of a joke to say Jay-Z wrote any songs. The man doesn’t write down lyrics. Not as he comes up with them in the studio. Not after the...
There are many remarkable things about Bob Dylan, from his early poetic, acoustic-driven songs to his protest anthems to his groundbreaking rock and...
Do you believe in magic? Do you believe that certain people are born with the gift of sight, meaning they can look into the future? It’s a...
When people think about grunge music today, typically it’s the ’90s that first leap to mind. That is, after all, when albums like Nirvana’s...
Those who love Seattle’s live music scene know Shaina Shepherd’s name well. She’s been a sonic force on the scene for about a decade now, moving...
The ’90s were a wild ride. The last decade before the internet took over the world was filled with Presidents playing saxophones, rappers on...
Guitarist Malina Moye is fast becoming a ubiquitous entity in the world of music. She has performed at NBA and NFL games, as well as racing events....
One of the major reasons people fell in love with rap music upon its inception was that it was a powerful tool to open your mind. It was the...
Raise your hand if you’ve heard of Kurt Cobain, Eddie Vedder, and Chris Cornell. Raise your other hand if you can close your eyes and imagine a song...
There will never be another Tupac Shakur. There was never a rapper with as much passion and energy before him and there won’t be another in his...
In the ’90s, rap music solidified itself as a genre that would soon spread all over the world to become the dominant global culture. But rap...
There’s a lot of music out there. It’s estimated that some 100,000 new songs are uploaded to streaming services daily. And sometimes, all those...
The ’90s was a golden era not just for rap music but for music in general. It may be the most eclectic decade of all time where music’s concerned....
There is nothing quite like music and weed to lift your day. The only thing that could make it better is a nice hot plate of amazing food. Well,...
When it comes to the musical movement known as grunge, which started in the late ’80s in Seattle, Washington, and later became a global phenomenon...
What was with the ’90s? All things considered, the decade might boast the best music ever. Sure, the ’60s had the soul and rock revolution and the...
Where would the ’90s be without DJ Marco Collins? The celebrated radio personality for the Seattle-based station, 107.7 The End, is responsible for...
Many music fans know that if you sync up the 1973 Pink Floyd Album The Dark Side of the Moon with the famed 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, you’ll get...
Kurt Cobain. While he was only in the public eye for a handful of years, his impact on popular culture and rock music was as if he lived 100. The...
Are you one of the millions of people singing: I might swerve, bend that corner, woah!!! along with the former NBA player-turned-hit-rapper Gelo? Hold...
The ’90s was overflowing with rock music. Beginning with the grunge movement in the early part of the decade, big buzzing guitar sounds ruled the...
The culture of hip-hop was born out of necessity. From there, its innovation marked its rise as much as anything. As some say, hip-hop didn’t invent...
In the world of folk, and one could argue music as a whole, Bob Dylan stands out as one of the sharpest tongues of all. The man could be scathing....
In the 2000s, the White Stripes were to rock music what Usain Bolt is to Olympic sprinting. From 1999 to 2007, the rock two-piece put out six albums,...
In the late ’80s and especially in the early ’90s, Seattle was besieged by sharks. People from record companies near and far descended upon the...