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Nirvana's Nevermind is still charting on the Billboard 200, and it may never stop. The set makes history as it hits 650 weeks on the chart.

And it was just suddenly so cool to be from seattle. - one e of the bigiggest mumusic biz ststories theseses is the so-called "rain city renaissance," with the emergence of noisy, punk-metal, grunge rock: bands like soundgarden, nirvana, alice in chains, and pearl jam, from seattle, washington. - ♪ i'm feeling ♪ ♪ i'm feeling outshined ♪ ♪ o outshined,, outshihined ♪ ♪ o outshined ♪ - why don'n't you tellll me the e biggest mimisconceptioion about the so-called seattle music scenes. - everybody's a grunge band. - all these bands that actually sound pretty different from each ot...

That hubristic sense of possibility and promise that y young kids s and bands can dedeliver. - riright now ththey're the et imimportant baband in the e wod for what they may inspire other people to do. - ♪ last night ♪ - much in the same way that nirvana was the spearhead for grunge in the '90s, the strokes really helped usher in a lot of other acts. - ♪ b but she can read she can read ♪ ♪ she can read she can read she's bad ♪ ♪ she can read she can read ♪ ♪ she can read she's bad ♪ - the first ones to break after the strokes in terms of new york artists is interpol and yea...

The chain says it wants to be sensitive to its customers' moral standards. - to get into wal-mart, ththey had to o change the titlee of the s song "rape e me" to "waif me." i don't think kurt was too happy about that. he always had that conflict between wanting to maintain that kind of punk authenticity, but also wanting to be popular. - ♪ rapape me ♪ - the star-making machine had sucked nirvana up into its evil guts. [laughs] anand now, thehey had to deal witith it. - - we decideded to lay lol, and d obviously y that was... you know, someone would say, "oh, that's because kurt's on heroin...

♪ what you thought was your daddy ♪ - bands like nirvana, pearl jam-- they wanted no part of the music-industry machine, and yeyet, there t they were: on mtv,, on the charts, selling millions of records. - ♪ still alive ♪ ♪ i'm still alive ♪ ♪ hey ♪ ♪ oh, i'm still alive ♪ it's a little bit overwhelming to see this many people. [laughs] we're used to playing small clubs, you know. and we wanna go back to playing small clubs. [electric guitar chords] - alternative rock tour kicked off in phoenix, arizona, on thursday night. it's a multi-act package called the lollapalooza to...