City

Aberdeen

USA

Aberdeen appears in 1 Songsheets issue: Seattle Grunge. One artist in the archive came from here: Nirvana.

This struggling lumber town on Washington's coast serves as the unlikely birthplace of key grunge figures, most notably Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic, who met here in the mid-1980s. Aberdeen's economic depression and geographic isolation created a sense of alienation that would permeate Nirvana's songwriting, while the town's proximity to the Melvins' orbit in nearby Montesano proved musically crucial. The town remains a pilgrimage site for grunge fans, with the Young Street Bridge immortalized in Cobain lore.

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Artists from Aberdeen

  • Nirvana

    Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic, and Dave Grohl made the record that turned a regional underground into the biggest story in rock.

Records made by artists from Aberdeen