Grunge: Part 1 | 49

Published: June 9, 2021, 4 a.m.

b'For the uninitiated, grunge begins and ends with Kurt Cobain and Nirvana.\\xa0Maybe sprinkle in a little Pearl Jam or Sound Garden and a few flannels and that\\u2019s grunge. A moment in time that has long passed, but frozen in our memories because of Cobain\\u2019s early death.\\nBut grunge is so much more than one band, and one singer who may have had an outsized impact on the movement but was just one of piece of a genre of music and an attitude that captivated the world at the beginning of the 90s.\\nOn this episode of History of the 90s host Kathy Kenzora takes a look back at the birth of grunge with the help of Alan Cross, host of the Curiouscast podcast, The Ongoing History of the New Music.\\nContact:\\xa0\\nTwitter: @1990shistory\\nFacebook: @1990shistory\\nInstagram: @that90spodcast\\nEmail:\\xa090s@curiouscast.ca\\nBlog:\\xa0www.historyofthe90sblog.ca\\nGuest:\\nAlan Cross, host of The Ongoing History of New Music\\nwww.ajournalofmusicalthings.com\\nTwitter:\\xa0@alancross\\nA note on sources:\\nFor more information about the birth of grunge and some of the pioneers of the movement check out Northwest Passage, a project dedicated to the music scene of the Pacific Northwest region of the 80s and 90s.\\xa0This website was a great source for information and facts contained in this episode.\\nFor exclusive bonus content subscribe to History of the 90s Patreon page.: https://patreon.com/historyofthe90s\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'