…expanded version features the original 13 tracks alongside live bonus recordings from 1998.
Grunge, however you define it, still dominated the perception of the Seattle music scene following the death of Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain in April 1994. The disparate bands marketed under that reductive banner — most notably Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains and Soundgarden — continued to shift millions of records, and you couldn’t toss a Doc Marten into the air without smacking an Eddie Vedder soundalike in the face as dozens of outsiders rode the flannel shirt-tails of those tentpole bands to varying levels of success. Still, more and more cracks began to surface in Seattle’s seemingly monolithic stranglehold on alternative rock. In the same calendar year as Cobain’s…

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