One of the great things about Oasis in the ’90s was the treasure trove of extra material they packed into singles — each one effectively was expanded into an EP, filled with non-album cuts...
Although no one knew it at the time, Superunknown was released a month before Kurt Cobain took his own life, and it’s really the last grunge album that sounds fully whole as a result. I still co...
I didn’t really take hip-hop seriously until I heard Illmatic my freshman year of college. I was a casual fan of Eminem, but he had “retired” the previous year and in 2006, mainstrea...
Nine Inch Nails has always played an interesting role in the alternative revolution. The golden age of grunge existed between the deaths of Mother Love Bone’s Andrew Wood (March 19, 1990) and Ni...
Seattle, it turns out, was — and, it should be noted, still is — a perfect breeding ground for great music. Before the Space Needle, Microsoft and Ken Griffey put it on the map, Seattle wa...