"Touch me, I'm sick!" When screeched by frontman Mark Arm, the titular line from Mudhoney's signature 1988 single can almost be seen as a rallying cry for the entire Seattle grunge scene that the band ...

The Queen of Christmas may soon become the Queen of Seattle as Mariah Carey is said to be set to release her first-ever ...

The Seattle grunge scene of the 1980s and early ’90s suffered no shortage of press coverage in its heyday, and has seen no shortage of books attempting to grapple with its legacy. From Michael ...

SEATTLE -- Grief-stricken Chris Cornell fans left flowers at memorials across Seattle for the musician whose forceful, somber songs helped cement the city's place in rock history. One of the locations ...

Scot Barbour’s directorial debut is a tribute to the late Seattle rock singer Andrew Wood, whose band, Mother Love Bone, was approaching stardom when Wood overdosed in March 1990. The documentary aims ...

Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil says the bands who made up the Seattle grunge scene never used the word to describe themselves. Instead, says Thayil, the word 'grunge' was used as a marketing ...

Long before Seattle was a tech town, it was a grungy one. In the mid-1980s and '90s, the Emerald City was a dress-down, umbrella-free zone that still boasted a professional basketball team and Ken ...

2024 marks 30 years since the release of several iconic '90s grunge rock albums, including Alice in Chains' "Jar of Flies," Soundgarden's "Superunknown," Pearl Jam's "Vitalogy," and Nirvana's seminal ...

Grunge really took off in the 90s, but there were a handful of grunge bands who were drafting the blueprints of the genre in the late 80s as well. Many of these bands, of course, started in Seattle, ...

Love it or hate it, the early ‘90s alternative rock boom was the last time loud guitar-based rock held the attention of both the record buying public and the music industrial complex. Nirvana and the ...

Singer/songwriter Mark Pickerel was the original drummer in Seattle grunge band Screaming Trees and is among the 70+ local bands playing SW’s Reverb Festival on Oct. 8. Pickerel plays Conor Byrne at 7 ...

SEATTLE — Seattle music icons gathered at Central Saloon Friday to pay tribute to one of the early influencers of the grunge scene, Tina Bell. Tina Bell was the frontwoman of Bam Bam, an early grunge ...