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Originally Posted by swa(y)
im not even sure there is such a musical genre called "grunge", as so many of its participants approached music in different ways.
it was just a group of bands that all got lumped together because they came from roughly the same area.
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Aw, come on - there's definite stylistic similarities between all the early ("proper") stuff: yer Green Rivers, Screaming Life-era Soundgardens, Tads, Mudhoneys, Blood Circuses etc, even if that was almost entirely due to Sub Pop consciously focussing on the bands that fit with their long hair/sludgy aesthetic at the expense of anything that didn't (initially, at least). Though as Hype (the movie) or Loser (the book) both make clear, that initial scene peaked around '89 and was pretty much over in Seattle by the time Nevermind came along a couple of years later and redefined everything.
Assuming the book focusses on all that stuff and the build up to it rather that the steaming piles of dreck that followed in the 90's, I'll be interested, but whether there's much there that hasn't been exhaustively covered elsewhere remains to be seen...