Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... SEATTLE —Back in 2005, soon after then-Mayor Greg Nickels officially acknowledged pop music was a big deal in Seattle by adding music to the Office of Film, ...

SEATTLE — Some highlights of a Friday-morning walking tour of Sub Pop’s spacious third-floor office in downtown Seattle: A “wood record” award for the Shins, commemorating sales of 100,000 copies of ...

Grunge music started soft and underground, and then, overnight, it was everywhere. While grunge was certainly alive in the 1980s, thanks to labels such as Sub Pop Records, it wasn't well known yet.

Ah, our good old friends Grunge and Alternative, those bastions of ’90s rock nostalgia. Are they one in the same? Did they start out meaning different things but over time come to mean the same? At ...