Damien Girling guides us through the Seattle-born guitar scene of the early 90s and shows how its influence lives on...
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Today’s exclusive is from a Berlin-based grunge three-piece who’ve found a fine balance between dirty guitars and pop vocal harmonies...
This London-based trio bring their loud and abrasive music to the masses. Well, that is what punk is all about...
On a murky London eve, these grunge influenced upstarts demonstrated why they’re drumming up a real interest in their music...
Hip hop is given the punk treatment, as Astronautalis proves why it is one of the world’s most diverse genres...
The ex-Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver frontman died in his sleep on his tour bus in Minnesota last night...
One of the 90s’ most enduring songwriters and a true alt-rock legend, Chris Cornell releases his fifth studio solo album...
On their brand new single ‘Lights Out’, indie-rock group Black Surf pay homage to one of grunge-pop’s most beloved songwriters...
Japanese band Taffy return with their EP ‘Darkle’ and show that mixing grunge and shoegaze is still a glorious idea...
Yellow Streak sees the aptly named quartet Simmer nodding towards emo’s early 90s legends and succeeding as they do so...
They’re just a year into their career but Keroscene are already writing with the assurance of noise-rock’s most accomplished veterans ondon...
The shock rock legend Marilyn Manson has laid claim that he was the individual responsible for coining the term ‘grunge’...
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