Specific to music, it was a decade in which once-hallowed phrases like alternative rock and college ... I don’t mean to lay this all at the feet of the 1980s. The trend had been going on before ...

Have you noticed that a lot of modern film and TV scores have an '80s-inspired sound? We spoke with several composers to find ...

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Thurston Moore, the guitarist and founding member of Sonic Youth is known for his role in shaping the sound of alternative ...

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Saturday, April 5, is a solemn day for fans of grunge music. The date represents the tragic passing of two of the genre’s most revered voices: Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain and Alice In Chains’s Layne Staley.

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