May 16, 2021

WHO IS THE NEXT NIRVANA?

That is the big question. But who actually will be the next Nirvana?!? No one. That’s impossible. No one will ever be Kurt Cobain and no one will write those songs again. But that phrase “The next (fill in the blank of any great past band)” has been used over and over again because we’re all searching for that next great band to call our own. The type of band that inspires change. That type of band ignites a new movement. The type of band that stirs your soul. Where is the next great band going to come from? Aberdeen? Seattle? Glasgow? Who knows.

But one thing for sure is that Nirvana influenced enough musicians that anything even close to Nirvana grabs the attention of music lovers who miss - or were never there because they were not born yet - the first grunge movement.

Some of the staff at the new indie label Grunge Pop Records saw Nirvana at their first show in Seattle. They saw and experienced Nirvana before they had even recorded their debut BLEACH. No one knew how important they would become, nor believe they would go from playing to almost no one - and in three short years - to becoming the biggest band in the world; and making the term “grunge” a worldwide sensation.

Well, it’s going to be the thirty-year anniversary of Nirvana’s NEVERMIND come this September 24th, and all hell is gonna break loose globally. Grunge Pop Records is already on the move to find and introduce to the world the next wave of grunge bands and they’ve already found some bands with many more to come.

THE NEW GRUNGE MOVEMENT HAS BEGUN

Barb Wire Dolls and Prince Of Lilies have both signed multi-album deals with Grunge Pop Records; more band signings to be announced.

''THE SEATTLE GRUNGE SOUND OF TODAY''

Grunge Pop Records will launch into the music world on July 15, 2021 - bringing music lovers who miss the Seattle grunge sound of the late ‘80s/early ‘90s - modern bands that have that new grunge noise: LOUD, DISTORTED, UNDERGROUND ROCK.

BARB WIRE DOLLS Single/Video out Sept 10, 2021

7” Vinyl Split Single out Winter 2021

Barb Wire Dolls were personally signed by Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead to his Warner Music label in 2015. Since forming in 2008, Barb Wire Dolls have headlined nine hundred shows and festivals in twenty-five countries, played main stages at Wacken, Riot Fest, Mighty Sounds, Texas Showdown, Inklife, and Rebellion festivals, performed on all of Vans Warped Tour (2017), graced twenty-six magazine covers, released three albums, had a split single with OFF!, had five books published on them, performed on national TV, and had a Number 1 commercial radio hit in Brazil. Signed to Warner/Chappell for publishing, they were represented by Lemmy’s manager, Todd Singerman, and Neil Warnock, head of United Talent Agency.

BARB WIRE DOLLS - live at Wacken Open Air 2016 (Full concert)

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PRINCE OF LILIES Single/Video out July 15, 2021

Debut Album VENT out Sept 24, 2021

7” Vinyl Split Single out Winter 2021

Sounding like they could have come out of Seattle in the ’90s, Prince Of Lilies are busting out raw, distorted, four-chord epics equal parts old school and new. Being heralded by the UK press as “Nirvana meets Hüsker Dü” and “The sound of Kings Of Leon being abused by Nirvana”, Prince Of Lilies fuse grunge, punk, and thrashing garage rock. Their forthcoming debut album VENT, recorded in just two days by Steve Albini, (Nirvana, Iggy Pop & The Stooges, Pixies, Fugazi), is the kind of album that lets you believe in the power of passionate rock music again. Echoing the likes of Nirvana's debut record or the early Soundgarden, Tad, and Mudhoney material - or anything for that matter on the early Sub Pop catalog - these are dynamic pop songs with a hardcore edge, replacing slickness for a gritty live feel and punk attitude.