HOR - Unit 8

Name the industrial city whose musical style influenced and ultimately led to the alternative rock style:

• Manchester, England

• Melbourne, Australia

• Liverpool, England

• Moscow, Russia

Power tools, hammers, wrenches and homemade noise instruments all find their way into this musical style that was popularized by Nine Inch Nails:

• industrial rock

• grunge

• no-wave

• rapcore

Nine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock project founded in 1988 in Cleveland, Ohio by this artist:

• Kurt Cobain

• Eddie Vedder

• Trent Reznor

• Perry Farrell

The band Sonic Youth is an example of this short-lived New York rock style:

• grunge

• no-wave

• rapcore

• third wave ska

Perry Farrell, founder and lead singer of Jane’s Addiction, organized the first alternative rock festival, which was called:

• Newport Folk Festival

• Lilith Fair

• Woodstock

• Lollapalooza

Nirvana, and other Seattle bands, popularized this subset of alternative rock:

• third wave ska

• grunge

• rapcore

• industrial rock

In 1988, this was the first grunge band to sign to a major label:

• Nirvana

• Soundgarden

• Green Day

• Pearl Jam

This American rock band was formed by Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987:

• Nirvana

• Soundgarden

• Green Day

• Pearl Jam

This artist, lead singer and guitarist of Nirvana, committed suicide in 1994 at the height of grunge’s popularity:

• Kurt Cobain

• Eddie Vedder

• Trent Reznor

• Perry Farrell

This American rock band, led by Eddie Vedder, was formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990:

• Nirvana

• Soundgarden

• Green Day

• Pearl Jam