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'90s Grunge Makeup Is Fall’s Moodiest Beauty Trend—These 10 Products Are Key to Get the Look

This is the smokey eye's cooler cousin.

Marie Claire

Debate: What's the greatest grunge album ever?

Nevermind? Dirt? Ten? God's Balls? Spanking Machine? We want to know the one elite grunge album you can't live without

Metal Hammer

"There was something about the way he carried himself. He quite clearly was going to shine": The early years of Soundgarden's Chris Cornell

As Soundgarden broke out of the Seattle scene, Chris Cornell stood apartfrom his peers: a rock god among grunge’s iconoclasts

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“The time was right. Metal had died a horrible death, grunge had killed the mainstream off, so it felt like a revolution”: The unholy story of Cacophonous Records, the underground 90s label that changed black metal

Cacophonous Records launched Cradle Of Filth and Dimmu Borgir on an unsuspecting world

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"We got escorted out of town the next day because the big lawnmower went into the swimming pool": Grunge may have burst the big-hair bubble, but it saved Heart

The Wilson sisters look back on hit records, death threats and a career like no other

Louder

Back to grunge: Why '90s aesthetics are making a comeback in 2025

Designers shouldn't be afraid of the dark next year.

Creative Bloq

The angst, the sensitivity… and the songs: how gen Z got hooked on Nirvana

For a new generation of musicians, the grunge band and their frontman Kurt Cobain have provided a blueprint for a more inclusive style of stardom

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“So many people don't understand how, as a lead player, I could idolize someone like Kurt Cobain, but for me, it's also about the songwriting and passion”: Nikki Stringfield has more up her sleeve than glorious shredding with the Iron Maidens

Fresh off the release of her solo debut, Apocrypha, the Schecter signature artist dishes on her love of the Kemper Profiler, the first Iron Maiden riff she learned, and the lasting impact of grunge on her guitar approach

Guitar World

Grunge and rap to feature in new lesson aids for music teachers in England

Curriculum resources also to include more diverse English literature texts and history topics such as ‘imperial decline’

The Guardian - UK

"Sick! So punk!": Luxury fashion brand Saint Laurent is selling second-hand Nirvana T-shirts for thousands of pounds

Psst! Wanna buy a grunge T-shirt? That'll be ONE MILLION POUNDS please sucker

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Six classic rock bands who "went grunge" and lived to tell the tale

Grunge swept all aside as it barrelled in from Seattle, and some bands preferred to jump the bandwagon rather than stand in the way and get mown down

Louder

"We had to die" - A history of The Grunge Wars, told by those who were there

Three decades ago, GN’R’s Use Your Illusion and Nirvana’s Nevermind were released just two weeks apart, setting two musical cultures against each other. We asked combatants from both sides: who won the war?

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Revisiting the seven weeks in 1991 that changed music history forever

The 80s weren’t dead and the 90s hadn’t really begun. This is the story of how seven weeks of summer in 1991 belonged to rock (and not just grunge)

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A beginner's guide to grunge in five essential albums

Teenage angst really did pay off well: five albums that define grunge's story, from the brilliant beginning to the bitter end

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How Gen Z fell for and reinvented quiet-loud indie rock

Ed Power finds out why bands such as HotWax and Bleach Lab are so inspired by the sound of Pixies, Hole and Nirvana

Guitar World

"The Breeders, Hole, Sonic Youth, The Smashing Pumpkins all had female bass players. That was definitely an inspiration": When Melissa Auf Der Maur went solo

From the Archive: Melissa Auf Der Maur on gear, grunge and the fine art of going solo

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