Grunge ( sometimes referred to as the Seattle sound ) is a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged during the mid-1980s in the American state of Washington, particularly in the Seattle area.

The new album ,( produced by a returning Beau Hill ) saw Warrant acknowledging the Grunge phenomenon with a record that openly admitted to a Seattle influence, although was still a natural progression from the hard edged ' Dog Eat Dog '.

* " The Scratch " on Sleepless In Seattle: The Birth Of Grunge ( LiveWire Recordings, 2006 ).

* " Talkin ' Seattle Grunge Blues " by Todd Snider

This was right in the middle of the Grunge explosion and electronic music was still not very popular in the Seattle area.

284 Grunge, growing in the Seattle offices of the independent Sub Pop Records, combined hardcore and metal to top the charts and help define the desperation of a generation.

Mill a h-Uile Rud ( a Scottish Gaelic punk band from Seattle ) recorded in the language in 2004.

Seattle grunge band Mudhoney named a song on their 1993 EP Five Dollar Bob's Mock Cooter Stew " Deception Pass.

Goodness was a rock band from Seattle, Washington ( U. S .), led by Carrie Akre, formerly of Hammerbox and now primarily a solo artist.

The original group had filed a lawsuit in California against the Seattle grunge band in 1992.

The band formed in Seattle, USA, in 1993.

The band was formed in late 1993 by Chris Ballew ( bass guitar and lead vocals ) and Dave Dederer ( guitar and backup vocals ), who met while attending The Bush School in Seattle.

The band performed for President Bill Clinton at a 1994 Democratic Party fundraiser in Seattle.

Dederer also played bass in the Seattle band Juke and produced songs for singer / songwriter Gerald Collier.

The North American and European band tour began on 10 July 2009 in Seattle, Washington and ended in Warsaw on 10 October 2009.

* The 1993 rape and murder of Mia Zapata, lead singer for the Seattle punk band The Gits was unsolved nine years after the murder.

Mark Arm, the vocalist for the Seattle band Green River — and later Mudhoney — is generally credited as being the first to use the term grunge to describe this genre of music.

Arm first used the term in 1981, when he wrote a letter under his given name Mark McLaughlin to the Seattle zine Desperate Times, criticizing his band Mr. Epp and the Calculations as " Pure grunge!

" Clark Humphrey, editor of Desperate Times, cites this as the earliest use of the term to refer to a Seattle band, and mentions that Bruce Pavitt of Sub Pop popularized the term as a musical label in 1987 – 88, using it on several occasions to describe Green River.

The Los Angeles hardcore punk band Black Flag's 1984 record My War, on which the band combined heavy metal with their traditional sound, made a strong impact in Seattle.

Mudhoney, which was formed by former members of Green River, served as the flagship band of Sub Pop during their entire time with the label and spearheaded the Seattle grunge movement.

* Harvey Danger, an alternative rock band from Seattle, Washington

* Barcelona ( indie rock band ), an indie rock band from Seattle, Washington

* Trial ( band ), the political straight edge hardcore band from Seattle WA, USA

On April 8, 1994, Babes in Toyland played a benefit show for Rock Against Domestic Violence with 7 Year Bitch, and Jack Off Jill in Miami at the Cameo Theater, the same day lead-singer of American grunge rock band Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, had been found dead in his Seattle home.

Many claim that the first wave originated in Seattle at the University of Washington's Husky Stadium on October 31, 1981, at the prompting of Dave Hunter ( Husky band trumpet player ) and Robb Weller ( later Entertainment Tonight co-host, and then a television producer ).

* Krist Novoselic, former bass player of the Seattle grunge band Nirvana

* Muzzle ( band ), a musical group based in Seattle

Sub Pop achieved fame in the late 1980s for first signing Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney and many other bands from the Seattle music scene.

Mudhoney started in Bellevue, Washington, a suburb of Seattle.

* Mudhoney, Seattle

Although the band had little commercial impact outside of its native Seattle, Green River proved to have significant influence on the genre later known as grunge, both with its own music and with the music its members would create in future bands including Pearl Jam and Mudhoney.

Mudhoney quickly gained popularity in the Seattle scene, with debut releases " Touch Me I'm Sick " and Superfuzz Bigmuff receiving positive reviews in the music press.

The Limp Richerds were a hardcore punk rock band from Seattle, Washington which featured Mark Arm and Steve Turner ( later of Mudhoney and Green River ) in one of their many lineups.

Citizen Dick's song name " Touch Me, I'm Dick " is a word play on the song " Touch Me, I'm Sick " by the Seattle band Mudhoney.

The Dicks saw a resurgence in popularity at the onset of the grunge craze when Sub Pop Records released a cover of " Dicks Hate The Police " by Seattle band Mudhoney.

* The Seattle grunge group Mudhoney was humorously photographed in 1988 with cans of Rainier Beer.

* Piece of Cake ( album ), the 3rd album by Seattle band Mudhoney

* Mudhoney ( from Seattle, Washington )

Seattle burst into the popular consciousness with the grunge rock scene of the early 1990s, when Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Temple of the Dog, and Mudhoney, all reached vast audiences.

Remaining in Seattle, Lukin formed the grunge band Mudhoney with vocalist Mark Arm and guitarist Steve Turner, both formerly of Green River, and drummer Dan Peters, formerly of Bundle of Hiss.

He also noted an interest in grunge and the Seattle Sound ( The Melvins, Green River, Mudhoney, Screaming Trees, early Soundgarden ).