Coming in right after the explosion of grunge, Dirt spawned five singles and spent 106 total weeks on the charts. In celebration of the anniversary of one of the best grunge albums in rock history ...

There was certainly a market for that intensity. Dirt received widespread critical acclaim -- which continues to this day -- and hit No. 6 on the Billboard 200 on the way to five-times platinum ...

So Kurt Cobain and Co. would be a distant fourth. Alice in Chains are the Kings of Grunge, and today (Sept. 29) their hit sophomore album, Dirt, turns 25 years old. There is no more nihilistic or ...

But AIC never really cared much for labels, and 'Dirt' -- next on our list of the 10 Best Grunge Albums -- showed the band's double-edged assault, with its throttling, metal-tinged riffage ...

Google defines "grunge" as an informal way of saying "grime, dirt," and also, "a style of rock music characterized by a raucous guitar sound and lazy vocal delivery." Bruce Pavitt, co-founder and ...

In the opening lines, the article defined ‘grunge’ as ‘a five-letter word meaning dirt.’ The word, however, has six letters.” ...

The word "grunge" derives from American slang, meaning grime or dirt, lending itself perfectly to its unkempt, essentially dishevelled, aesthetic. The slouchy, bedraggled look had an almost anti ...

the band was already blurring the lines between grunge and metal. Released in 1992 on their seminal record Dirt, the song “Dam That River” was penned by guitarist Jerry Cantrell and born out ...

Over 25 years ago, Kurt Cobain predicted that grunge would become corny. “Grunge is as potent a term as new wave,” he told Rolling Stone. “You can’t get out of it. It’s going to be ...

A band that defined the heavier end of the grunge sound in the ‘90s has added ... Alice in Chains had a Top 10 album with “Dirt” in 1992, an eponymous followup that hit No. 1 in 1995 ...

Marin was seeking information about the so-called grunge scene of the city—one that had grown to usurp rock on the airwaves and had made Kurt Cobain and Nirvana the new idols of the music industry.