1995: Rock On, Greater Phoenix<\/p>\n
America is shaken by the Oklahoma City bombings, while the \u201cworldwide web\u201d gives us comically named startups eBay, Craigslist and Match.com. Phoenix moviegoers vibe to Woody and Buzz while getting their first taste of a bona fide homegrown rock scene.<\/p>\n
Seattle South<\/p>\n
The 1990s marked a golden age for the Valley music scene. Mill Avenue was lousy with legendary venues such as Long Wong\u2019s, Edcels Attic and Gibson\u2019s \u2013 DIY incubators where a new wave of rockers gave birth to the \u201cTempe Sound.\u201d Rooted in the college town\u2019s bar culture, this jangly, sun-drenched brand of alt-rock was just polished and poppy enough for mainstream radio \u2013 our answer to the grittier Seattle grunge-rock that had lit up airwaves earlier in the decade. By 1995, many Tempe bands were garnering national attention. It was the year Dead Hot Workshop released its first commercial album, 1001 \u2013 named for the street address of the now-defunct Sun Club in Tempe, an unpretentious live-music cave where local bands cut their teeth and trailblazing rock icons like The Flaming Lips, Nirvana and Dinosaur Jr. played before they got big. \u201cThat was a magical place. It was old, it was made of wood, there was no air-conditioning,\u201d Dead Hot Workshop drummer Curtis Grippe says. \u201cIt was a miserable place to play in the summer, but it sounded glorious.\u201d Meanwhile, the Gin Blossoms released its third studio album, Congratulations\u2026I\u2019m Sorry, and legendary promoter Charlie Levy began organizing shows at Nita\u2019s Hideaway. Today, the Tempe Sound era is remembered as a peak period of authenticity, creativity and community that paved the way for the likes of Jimmy Eat World and Authority Zero. \u201cIt was a little moment in time that launched a thousand ships,\u201d Grippe says. \u201cIt\u2019s cool to see them still floating.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1995: Rock On, Greater Phoenix America is shaken by the Oklahoma City bombings, while the \u201cworldwide web\u201d gives…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":216939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-216938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115183041669763435","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}