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 ...

The grunge era was full of songwriters who wrote ... Alice in Chains’ second album, Dirt, is one of the most harrowing accounts of addiction ever recorded, and quite possibly the darkest album ...

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 ...

Tone-wise the Dirt sound is tricky to replicate ... but he does have a special place in his heart for '90s grunge and alt rock. "At first the tension was unbelievable. Johnny was really cold, Dee Dee ...

Grunge is dirt. It is the scum that sticks to your bathtub. Grungey rock ‘n’ roll is dirty, salacious, raw and usually steeped in black humor. When Uncut asked me to compile my favorite songs ...

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 ...

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 ...