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VH1 and Spin Magazine Team Up to Present 'VH1 News Special: Grunge,' Re-Examining the Sound and Fury That Changed the Face of Music. 10 Years After Release of Nirvana's Blockbuster 'Nevermind,' Latest 'VH1 New Special' Takes a Surprising New Look at Sound That Became Fashion Statement, Attitude, and Lifestyle In the late '80s, a new music was catching fire in the rock clubs of Seattle. By the early '90s, it would transform mainstream pop music and culture almost overnight. But was "grunge" an authentic music movement? Or just an over- hyped commercial label, a product of the music and fashion industries? Now, 10 years after Nirvana released "Nevermind" -- a multi-platinum disc acclaimed as one of rock's all-time great albums -- VH1 teams up with Spin magazine for "VH1 News Special: Grunge." A surprising re-examination of a trademark sound that became a fashion statement, attitude, and lifestyle. "VH1 News Special: Grunge" examines a singular synthesis of music and attitude personified by such Seattle-based artists as Mother Love Bone, Green River, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Tad Doyle, Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Screaming Trees and others in a fuzz-toned, bass-heavy mix of heavy metal, punk and pop that rendered the spandex-clad hair metal bands of the '80s obsolete. The special features fascinating film, TV, video, movie and news footage and photos, plus interviews with the people at the center of it all, including Sonic Youth, The Melvins' King Buzzo, Mudhoney's Mark Arm, Soundgarden's Chris Cornell, Matt Cameron and Kim Thayil, Tad Doyle, Nirvana's Krist Noveselic and Dave Grohl, Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan, Everclear's Art Alexakis, Sebadoh's Lou Barlow, Supersuckers' Eddie Spaghetti, Sean Kinney of Alice in Chains, Screaming Trees' Van Connor, plus Spin magazine editor-in-chief Alan Light and music critic Charles Aaron, photographer Charles Peterson, Soundgarden/Alice in Chains manager Susan Silver, former Sub-Pop Records publicist Nils Bernstein, Seattle journalist Clark Humphrey, KISW music director/on-air personality Cathy Faulkner, record publicist Jim Merlis, and many others.

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