I’m pretty stoked about this week’s episode, which focuses on the rise of the Grunge movement of 1991 – the stories behind how Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and other acts came to found this musical movement.  

The most interesting aspect of what people understood to be ‘grunge’ is that many of the bands thought to represent the genre, including Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, and Alice In Chains, really weren’t grunge at all. So what were they really? And what was really responsible for the eradication of hair bands in 1991? Hint: it wasn’t grunge… 

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