Sludge and grunge are sibling genres that formed around the same time (something that music historians often overlook), so it’s no wonder that they have over-lapping fan bases. Since sludge/stoner/doom metal and grunge are the primary genres I cover on this blog, I thought it would be a good idea to give some attention to other blogs who cover these scenes, most of which do so much better than my blog.

Here’s a pretty well-rounded and brief list of some of the best s/s/d and grunge-centric blogs on Tumblr. I should note that none of these blogs are dedicated to just one or a few artists (ie Fuck Yeah Mastodon or Hole-Lotta-Love), but they focus on all participants of these scenes on a large scale. Click on the blog names to visit and/or follow.

Sludge/Stoner/Doom Metal:

• Doom Congregation is every s/s/d pirate’s wet dream. The entire blog is nothing but free downloads of great sludge, stoner, and doom metal albums, although the owner of the blog does encourage readers to buy copies of featured albums if they like what they hear. The blog isn’t updated often, but when it is, something special will be waiting for you.
• Doom Sludge is a good source of sludge and doom metal news, is very no-frills, and will definitely not spam your dash with unnecessary crap.
• Fuck Yeah Doom has a lot of good audio and video posts, and is pretty good at staying on top of the latest news that develops on the scene.
• Fuck Yeah Sludge Metal is an excellent source of high-res concert photos and band biographies, as well as the latest sludge, stoner, and doom metal news. The blog is updated every day with unique, fresh content and very few senseless re-blogs. I can not pimp this blog enough; seriously, go check it out.
• Sludge Nation is a jack-of-all-trades sort of blog with a lot of audio, video, and photo posts of all of the best-known sludge, stoner, and doom metal bands. It is regularly updated and always has something interesting to offer.

Grunge:

• Alt-Grunge 1990s has a name that’s pretty self-explanatory, as it only covers grunge and alternative bands from the 1990s. This blog is a great source of audio posts that serve as a nice sampler for someone who might not know much about the grunge scene.
• Fuck Yeah Grunge Music is an image-centric blog that regularly features rare pictures of grunge artists, as well as high-resolution GIFs and music videos. Very no-frills and it won’t clog up your dash one bit.
• Grunge Book is the official blog from the authors of the new book Everyboby Loves Our Town: An Oral History Of Grunge. Authentic grunge goodies and exclusive interviews from people who were sizable players on the Seattle scene back in the day. This is definitely the best grunge-centric blog on Tumblr by a long shot.
• Grunge is Dirty Like Me is mainly centric around the “big four” of grunge - Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains. Other bands are featured as well, and most posts revolve around photos and music videos of various grunge artists.
• Martyrs Of Grunge is dedicated to educating Tumblr users about what grunge really represented through photos, interviews, trivia, and audio posts. It’s regularly updated with interesting content, but it definitely won’t spam you to death.
  

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Cobain’s widow lays out possible scenarios, from divorce to open marriage, on the 18th anniversary of his death. (Read the story; photo: Michel Linssen/Redferns)

This needs to be read.

Re-posted and expanded from Facebook for your amusement:

It’s funny when these girls who were only six months old when Kurt Cobain died try to act like they know more about grunge than the people who lived through it. FYI:

• Courtney Love did not kill Kurt Cobain.
• Kurt Cobain is not Jesus. He was a heroin addict with a good deal of talent who got lucky. It could have happened to any other random schmuck with a guitar.
• Layne Staley and Chris Cornell are the only frontmen who could actually sing. The rest just either bellowed through songs in a punk/hardcore voice, or they made atonal cool. Or they were Eddie Vedder, who is just god-awfully nasaly (Sorry Jen).
• Pearl Jam were formed to cash in on the trend. They formed at a time when grunge was “hot”, and they wanted to ride the wave of Nirvana’s success. There was never much meat to their songs, anyway.
• Mudhoney and Melvins are better than the rest, including Nirvana. Without Melvins, this shit would have never existed in the first place (same goes for sludge). Mudhoney were raw, their members were ugly, and they didn’t give a shit. That’s what made them great.
• Courtney Love was not the only woman on the scene. Babes in Toyland, L7, other members of the Riot Grrrl movement, and former Melvins bassist Lori Black prove otherwise.
• Wearing all the flannel and ripped jeans in the world does not make you any more grunge. In fact, it makes you look more like the kind of aloof mall rats who rode the trend. Also, Pearl Jam. Boo.
• Go listen to Screaming Trees, Mother Love Bone, TAD, early Nirvana, and early Soundgarden. Now go listen to later Black Flag and Flipper. Now you have a better handle of what the scene really was about, as well as the influences that brought it to fruition.
• Alice in Chains only worked when Layne and Jerry Cantrell worked together. Everything the band has done since Layne’s death is pure rubbish that may or may not be intended to bring in new revenue off of an established brand.
• Kurt Cobain is still not Jesus. Stifle.

These are not difficult concepts.