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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: The 90s Part 3: Grunge
Description: Up until the 1990s, the section of the rock universe known as āalternativeā was all over the placeā¦there wasnāt what anyone could call a defining soundā¦if it was left of centre, weird to mainstream music fans and ignored by the media, then it was āalternativeā...
If you were around the late 80sāthe decade where the word āalternativeā began to be used to describe a certain attitude in rockāyouāll remember that this was an umbrella term for so many different types of artistsā¦
If you couldnāt categorize a song or an artist by tossing it i...