Grunge

Dave Grohl compares 2012 to 1991

Music Gossip

11 Jan 2012

Dave Grohl says today's musical climate is just like 1991, when Nirvana broke into the mainstream. The Foo Fighters frontman acknowledges guitar bands are now "overlooked," but isn't worried rock 'n' roll has had its day, as he sees parallels between…

The Lemonheads - Laughing All the Way to the Cleaners: The Best Of

Expansive look at Evan Dando and co's back catalogue

5 Jan 2012

(Rhino) Evan Dando is still going strong as the lone remaining member of The Lemonheads, although his days as a mainstream slacker rock heartthrob are long behind him. As this two-CD, 47-track collection demonstrates, though – perhaps too extensively…

Silverchair split

Music Gossip

25 May 2011

Silverchair have split up. The Australian grunge group have decided the band is "no longer fulfilling creatively" and parted ways after nearly 20 years together. They said in a statement: "If the band stops being fun then we need to…

Hitlist: Music

Your fortnightly feast for the ears

2 Oct 2009

Noah and the Whale, Mudhoney and The Vaselines, Invasion, Scarce, The Big Pink, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Music Like a Vitamin, The Dead Weather

Pearl Jam - Backspace

Grunge veterans still going

2 Oct 2009

Pearl Jam finally kick back and enjoy being rock stars on Backspacer, their ninth studio album. Rushing out the gates with four raucous rock tracks (‘Gonna See My Friend’, ‘Got Some’, ‘The Fixer’ and ‘Johnny Guitar’) before switching gear for a more…

Mudhoney and The Vaselines

Grunge legends team up with the recently reformed Scots

1 Oct 2009

Back in early 90s the music world turned its eyes on Seattle. And Mudhoney were there right at the start, they were first band to have success on the seminal Sub Pop record label with their Superfuzz Bigmuff EP in 1988, featuring the classic ‘Touch Me…

Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue

17 Sep 2009

AC/DC aside, prematurely losing your lead singer is often fatal for bands. Grunge icons Alice in Chains of course lost Layne Staley in 2002 to years of well-documented drug (mis)use, but Black Gives Way to Blue will give them belief that they made the…

Bronto Skylift and The Gap Year Riot

23 Jul 2009

Two-piece bands are an irregular find these days, especially ones who can make this much noise. With a simple set-up of drums, guitar and one hell of a screeching set of lungs, Glaswegian duo Bronto Skylift easily cram this modest venue with their…

Exposure - Ten Kens

28 Nov 2008

Proving that there’s so much more to Toronto’s new music scene than two hip-ly-hooded synth terrorists, here comes the brilliant Ten Kens; and with this lot, you really couldn’t get further from Crystal Castles if you tried. The beardy and speccy…

Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff: Deluxe Edition and The Lucky Ones ••••

5 Jun 2008

GRUNGE Superfuzz Bigmuff: Deluxe Edition The Lucky Ones (Sub Pop) Mudhoney were always the dirty, psychotic older brothers to Nirvana’s globe-straddling grunge phenomenon, true inheritors of The Stooges’ mantle, with their reluctance to…

Popsicle’s Departure, 1989

16 Aug 2007

It's 1989. Seattle’s mighty Sub-Pop label dominates the grunge scene, Dido can’t get hold of her dealer, and tonight Jeremy’s band have totally got a gig supporting the Lemonheads. On film these characters would be played by Matt Dillon and Winona…