Few bands in rock history have had a more immediate and tangible impact on their contemporary pop musical landscape than Nirvana did in the early Nineties. When the Seattle trio hit the scene in 1991, mainstream radio was awash in the hair metal of Poison and Def Leppard. read more
Nirvana is technically the creator of the genre that goes by the name 'Grunge'. Even if it existed before Nirvana, it didn't have a proper name to it and the recognition that Kurt gave to the genre is certainly incomparable to any other artist. read more
Prior to Nirvana, alternative music was consigned to specialty sections of record stores, and major labels considered it to be, at the very most, a tax write-off. After the band's second album, 1991's Nevermind, nothing was ever quite the same, for better and for worse. read more