Mudhoney

For many, Mudhoney was the father of grunge, a movement that in the early 1990s revealed to the world Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Screaming Trees, among other bands. With a sloppy and fun style and with garage rock as a basis for their music, the group paved the way for the boom of the Seattle music scene, despite not achieving the same success as their main movement colleagues.

In early 1988, after the dissolution of the band Green River, former members Mark Arm (vocals) and Steve Turner (guitar) joined drummer Dan Peters the bassist and Matt Lukin and formed Mudhoney. The band signed with Sub Pop and in 1988 released the single Touch Me I'm Sic (the song would become the band's anthem) and the EP Superfuzz Bigmuf. In 1989, Sonic Youth invited the group to tour the UK, where Superfuzz Bigmuf entered the independent music charts.

The first album, Mudhoney, came out in November 1989. Their second full-length album, Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge, was released in 1991. After that release, the group signed with Reprise Records, through which they released the albums Piece of Cake (1992) , My Brother the Cow (1995) and Tomorrow Hit Today (1998).

In 1999, Reprise Records dismissed the band and the departure of bassist Matt Lukin was announced. Despite an expected end, Mudhoney, with bassist Guy Maddison, returned to perform shows in 2001, including a tour of South America, in which the band performed in the Brazilian cities of Porto Alegre, Curitiba, Belo Horizonte, Goiânia, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Recife.

Back in Sub Pop, the band released the albums Since We've Become Translucent (2002), Under a Billion Suns (2006), The Lucky Ones (2008) and Vanishing Point (2013). In 2018, Mudhoney released his tenth album, Digital Garbage. Then came Plastic Eternity (2003).