Editing Music of Australia (section)

=====Grunge=====
{{Main|Grunge}}
[[File:CosmicPsychos2007.jpg|thumb|alt=An Australian rock band, the Cosmic Psychos, performing onstage. The dark stage is lit up by coloured lights. Three performers are visible: an electric bass player, an electric guitarist, and a drummer behind a drumkit.|[[Cosmic Psychos]], one of several Australian bands which influenced and interacted with the Seattle grunge scene]]
Grunge is a subgenre of [[alternative rock]] and a [[subculture]] that emerged during the {{nowrap|mid-1980s}} in Australia and in the [[Pacific Northwest]] U.S. state of [[Washington (state)|Washington]]. The early grunge movement in the US revolved around Seattle's independent record label [[Sub Pop]] and that region's [[underground music]] scene. By the early 1990s, its popularity had spread, with grunge bands appearing in California, then emerging in other parts of the United States and in Australia, building strong followings and signing major record deals. [[Mark Arm]], the vocalist for the Seattle band [[Green River (band)|Green River]]—and later [[Mudhoney]]—stated that the term had been used in [[Australia]] in the mid-1980s to describe bands such as [[King Snake Roost]], [[The Scientists]], Salamander Jim, and [[Beasts of Bourbon]].<ref>{{cite news | date=20 January 2001 | title=No End in Sight: Mudhoney Is Alive and Well | last=True | first=Everett | author-link=Everett True | work=[[The Stranger (newspaper)|The Stranger]] | url=http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/no-end-in-sight/Content?oid=6267 | access-date=11 September 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170806051930/http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/no-end-in-sight/Content?oid=6267 | archive-date=6 August 2017 | url-status=live }}</ref> Arm used grunge as a descriptive term rather than a genre term, but it eventually came to describe the punk/metal hybrid sound of the Seattle music scene.<ref>[[Clinton Heylin|Heylin, Clinton]]. ''Babylon's Burning: From Punk to Grunge''. Conongate, 2007. {{ISBN|1-84195-879-4}}, p. 606.</ref>

Several Australian bands, including [[Cosmic Psychos]] and [[Feedtime]] are cited as precursors to grunge, their music influencing the Seattle scene through the college radio broadcasts of Sub Pop founder [[Jonathan Poneman]] and members of Mudhoney.<ref>Hennesy, Kate (11 August 2013). [http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/cosmic-psychos-uberblokes-punked-pumped-and-primed-20130811-2rpt8.html "Cosmic Psychos: Uber-blokes punked, pumped and primed"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171204220431/http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/cosmic-psychos-uberblokes-punked-pumped-and-primed-20130811-2rpt8.html |date=4 December 2017 }}, ''[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]''. Retrieved 8 October 2015.</ref><ref name="zan">[[Zan Rowe|Rowe, Zan]] (26 September 2008). [http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/zan/blog/s2374282.htm "Jonathan Poneman from Sub-Pop takes five with the albums he wishes he'd released..."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160426200316/http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/zan/blog/s2374282.htm |date=26 April 2016 }}, ''Mornings with Zan''. Retrieved 8 October 2015.</ref> Chris Dubrow from ''[[The Guardian]]'' states that, in the late 1980s, Australia's "sticky-floored...alternative pub scene" in seedy inner-city areas produced grunge bands with "raw and awkward energy" such as [[X (Australian band)|X]], [[Feedtime]] and [[Lubricated Goat]].<ref name="Dubrow">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/australia-culture-blog/2014/apr/07/australia-grunge-nirvana |title=Nirvana had nothing on Australia's Lubricated Goat |last=Dubrow |first=Chris |date=7 April 2014 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=8 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211082925/https://www.theguardian.com/music/australia-culture-blog/2014/apr/07/australia-grunge-nirvana |archive-date=11 February 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> Dubrow said "[[Kurt Cobain|Cobain]]...admitted the Australian wave was a big influence" on his music.<ref name="Dubrow"/> [[Everett True]] states that "[t]here's more of an argument to be had for grunge beginning in Australia with the Scientists and their scrawny punk ilk."<ref name="ReferenceA"/>

From being discovered in mid-1994 with their debut single "[[Tomorrow (Silverchair song)|Tomorrow]]" to their 1995 debut album ''[[Frogstomp]]'' (which sold more than 4 million copies worldwide<ref name="AMGBio">Erlewine, "Silverchair > Biography".</ref><ref name="MABio">{{cite web |date=10 April 2003 |title=Silverchair |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.cs-ma-NAMO~1626 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413163925/http://nla.gov.au/nla.cs-ma-NAMO~1626 |archive-date=13 April 2014 |access-date=13 October 2011 |publisher=[[Music Australia (online resource)|Music Australia]]. [[National Library of Australia]]}}</ref>), [[Silverchair]] were considered by some to be grunge's "last stand".<ref>{{cite web |last=Danaher |first=Michael |date=4 August 2014 |title=The 50 Best Grunge Songs |url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2014/08/the-50-best-grunge-songs.html?a=1 |access-date=8 February 2017 |website=pastemagazine.com |publisher=Paste}}</ref> The band's trio of teenagers—[[Ben Gillies]] on drums, [[Daniel Johns]] on vocals and guitars, and [[Chris Joannou]] on bass guitar—were still in high school when the album went to number one in Australia and New Zealand.<ref name="AUSCharts">{{cite web |last1=Hung |first1=Steffen |title=Silverchair Discography |url=http://australian-charts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Silverchair |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023075719/http://www.australian-charts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Silverchair |archive-date=23 October 2012 |access-date=13 October 2011 |publisher=Australian Charts Portal. Hung Medien}}</ref><ref name="TomorrowAUSChart">{{cite web |last1=Hung |first1=Steffen |title=Silverchair – ''Frogstomp'' |url=http://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Silverchair&titel=Frogstomp&cat=a |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/62Q4Sg66u?url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/r218511/review |archive-date=14 October 2011 |access-date=14 October 2011 |publisher=Australian Charts Portal. Hung Medien}}</ref>