Grunge isn’t dead – but was it every truly alive? Twenty years after the
height of the movement, The Strangest Tribe redefines grunge as we know
it. Stephen Tow takes a second look at the music and community that
vaulted the likes of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, and Soundgarden to
international fame. Chock-full of interviews with the starring
characters, Tow extensively chronicles the rise of rock 'n' roll’s last
great statement and contextualizes what the music really meant to the
key players.
Delving deep into the archives, Tow paints a vivid
picture of the underground rock circuit of tattered warehouses and
community centers. Seattle’s heady punk scene of the late '80s gave
birth to a rowdy and raucous movement, influenced by metal, but wholly
its own. Seattle made its own sound, a sound that came to be known
internationally as grunge. Tow walks the reader through this sonic
evolution, interviewing members of every band along the way.
In
1991, Seattle’s sound took the world by storm--but this same storm had
been brewing in the Pacific Northwest for a decade before it hit
MTV. The Strangest Tribe is a reframing of this last transformative era
in music. Not just plaid shirts, bleached hair, and angst, “grunge” is a
word used to describe a rich community of artists and jokers.
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