Jake Uitti

6 days ago | vice.com | Jake Uitti

Peter Buck, the former lead guitarist for the iconic rock band R.E.M., is one of the most prolific and collaborative artists you can ever meet. Over a handful of decades making music, he’s worked in seemingly countless projects. But his latest offering is a new supergroup with Barrett Martin, Duke Garwood, Alain Johannes, and Lisette Garcia called Drink the Sea.

1 week ago | vice.com | Jake Uitti

When it comes to grunge music, there is one city above all others that stands out. Indeed, Seattle is the Mecca of grunge. The genre began there. It was fostered there. The biggest bands in grunge were born in the Seattle area. And the locale remains an iconic destination for those who want to learn more about the history of the music.

1 week ago | vice.com | Jake Uitti

Seattle hip-hop has a rich and eclectic history. From a national perspective, the lineage can be traced back to artists like Sir Mix-a-Lot and his Grammy-winning, No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100, “Baby Got Back.” Other big-name Grammy winners include Ishmael Butler of Digable Planets and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. Now, new names are bubbling up to the top in the Pacific Northwest. And perhaps the most popular in the city today are Oblé Reed and Travis Thompson.

1 week ago | vice.com | Jake Uitti

When people today think about grunge music, it’s often the 1990s that come to mind. The era where MTV showcased flannel shirts, stringy hair, and loud, buzzy guitars to an audience of tens of millions. Ah, to be young again!But before the 1990s—indeed, before albums like Nevermind, Ten, and Dirt—grunge music was bubbling up in the Pacific Northwest, ready to explode. That’s when artists were creating the sound and defining the terms that would come to label the music.

1 week ago | vice.com | Jake Uitti

Without the contributions and foresight of the Seattle-born record label Sub Pop, grunge music fans everywhere would be without much of their favorite songs. Indeed, the grunge catalog would be closer to a barren wasteland than it would be the robust cornucopia of song that it is today without the formative label that has been “going out of business” ever since it was created in the late 1980s. Below, we wanted to celebrate that fact.