Grunge shifted pop culture in the 1990s, but these funk rock bands were equally crucial to the rise of alternative music.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 2024 marks 30 years since the release of several iconic '90s grunge rock albums, including Alice in Chains' "Jar of Flies," ...

The rise of grunge was explosive and brief, and these guitar riffs marked some of the hardest songs to come out of the genre.

Michael Blutman proudly holds a bag from Tower Records, a storied defunct chain of record stores that sold many grunge records in the early ‘90s. (Photo courtesy of JerEcho) The music world recently ...

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 ...

Nirvana had no idea that “Smells Like Teen Spirit” would become one of the greatest rock songs of all time and would continue to influence the grunge scene today. After its release, the song ...

Nirvana’s Nevermind came out 32 years ago, serving as the crescendo to an onset wave of grunge music that owned the decade. The rebellious, flannel-wearing generation of teens who rode that wave have ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...

A new episode of our podcast, Rolling Stone Music Now, breaks down our list of the greatest grunge albums of all time. How did Stone Temple Pilots — once considered faux-grunge at best — make it all ...

In 1993, Seattle was doing a lot of handwringing. “Grunge music,” which began as a conscious reaction to the musical excess of the ’80s, was turning the city into a commercial gold mine. Suburban kids ...