Category: Scenes

  • This is Grunge

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    What is such-and-such a time/place/scene in music? We’ll ask and answer from time to time. This is a quick ‘n’ easy one: What is grunge? This is grunge: A punk/heavy metal hybrid that emerged in Seattle during the late 1980s. Guitars were sludgy, lyrics typically angst-filled, shirts flannel, and authenticity valued above most else. The…

  • It’s a Book, It’s a Playlist: Everybody Loves Our Town, by Mark Yarm

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    It’s an oral history of grunge, it’s a playlist. Here are the Mark Yarm’s Seattle grunge essentials, dumped into Spotify for your time/space-travelling pleasure. The author’s complete list, without Spotify holes: 1. Mudhoney “Touch Me I’m Sick” 2. U-Men “They” 3. Green River “Ain’t Nothing to Do” 4. Soundgarden “Nothing to Say” 5. Nirvana “Love…

  • CBGB’s Doc: Blitzkreig Bop

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    It’s CBGB’s, 1978. Blondie, The Ramones, The Dead Boys live. It’s a documentary.

  • List Metal

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    Planned for these pages, explorations and playlists for all sorts of music scenes. Quick, how many music scenes can you name off the top of your head…? Wikipedia knows more. From their music genres page, here’s a sample–just heavy metal and its offspring: Heavy metal Alternative metal Nu metal Black metal Viking metal Christian metal…

  • “Into the Black”

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    The death of Kurt Cobain (4/5/94)–and the end of grunge–profiled the summer after in Spin (via Longform): Seattle bid goodbye to Kurt Cobain on April 10 in true grunge-rock style, bursting the ranks of a quickly organized public vigil and leaping into the nearby international fountain, a giant, water-spouting structure some 50 yards wide and…