It would be impossible to describe the music scene of the 1990’s without mentioning the alternative rock music scene which dominated from the early part of the decade toward its middle part. Furthermore, the rise of grunge music that time defines an important part of what has been the alternative rock phenomenon in that decade. Grunge music is sometimes referred to as “Seattle Sound” because a lot of the bands then were from Seattle.

In enumerating the best bands of the grunge music scene then, (and justifying the choices in the process,) the following five of the biggest band names of the movement definitely made their mark in half-decade run highlighted by bands’ quick rise to fame and success but marred by problems such as drug abuse and a short period of fame for rock bands. [Read more →]

The Toy Zone recreated some album covers using Legos. They even recreated Nirvana’s Nevermind and The Offspring’s Americana. Pretty cool stuff.

Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam will be doing some solo shows this summer. Between August 1st to August 22nd Eddie will be touring with Liam Finn from Boston to Chicago. Tickets cost $75 a piece and unfortunately all the Pre Sale tickets have been sold out. Dont you worry your pretty little head, you can still find tickets at StubHub.com
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• Aug-01 Boston, MA at the Opera House
• Aug-02 Boston, MA at the Opera House
• Aug-04 New York, NY at the United Palace Theatre
• Aug-05 New York, NY at the United Palace Theatre
• Aug-07 Newark, NJ at the NJ Performing Arts Ctr
• Aug-09 Montreal, QC at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier
• Aug-10 Montreal, QC at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier
• Aug-12 Toronto, ON at Massey Hall
• Aug-13 Toronto, ON at Massey Hall
• Aug-16 Washington, DC at the Warner Theatre
• Aug-17 Washington, DC at the Warner Theatre
• Aug-19 Milwaukee, WI at the Riverside Theatre
• Aug-21 Chicago, IL at the Auditorium Theatre
• Aug-22 Chicago, IL at the Auditorium Theatre

I would be very interested to hear some peoples thoughts after they see this concert.

This is video footage of Nirvana playing “Jesus Doesn’t Want Me For A Sunbeam,” “Aneurysm,” and “D-7″ at the City Gardens in Trenton, N.J., 1991.

Pretty cool if you ask me.

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Candlebox will be releasing their latest album “Into the Sun” Tuesday July 22nd. 10 years ago they released their last album “Happy Pills”. You can purchase the album at Amazon.com or CD Universe. Should be a good album.

1. Stand
2. Bitches Brewin
3. Surrendering
4. Into the Sun
5. Underneath It All
6. Miss You
7. How Does It Feel
8. Kiss Before Dying, A
9. Breathe Me In (Intro)
10. Breathe Me In
11. Lover Come Back To Me
12. Consider Us

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Hey everyone!

Thanks for visiting 90srockers.com. You caught us with our pants down. We are currently upgrading the 90srockers website to wordpress to make my life easier and to give you more content.

First step is to write this post and to start linking to all the bands we have in our database.

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