We're launching a new video series dubbed "30 Years of Grunge" to commemorate these enormous releases, the events that led up to them and what happened to the scene after it blew up. Episode 1 — "Who Invented Grunge?" — focuses on the key players who pioneered the scene in and around Seattle, and how it started to build and become more solidified.
You'll hear stories told by the characters who lived it themselves — Soundgarden guitarist
Kim Thayil and drummer
Matt Cameron, Melvins' frontman
Buzz Osborne,
Mother Love Bone's Greg Gilmore, renowned artist manager Susan Silver, co-founder and President of Sub Pop Records Jonathan Poneman, radio personality and former MTV host Matt Pinfield, Spotify's Allison Hagendorf, Seattle-based radio personality Cathy Faulkner and photographer Charles Peterson.