Grunge veterans Mudhoney are coming to Brno

Seattle was and still is home to many legendary bands such as Nirvana, Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam. One of the few bands formed there that are still active today and, even after thirty-five years, still bursting with energy, is Mudhoney. The four-piece is considered a pioneer of grunge, the genre they helped bring to the forefront of rock in the nineties. They inspired others too, not least Nirvana, for whom the debut EP Superfuzz Bigmuff (1988), with the cult single Touch Me I'm Sick, was key.

They released their eleventh studio album, Plastic Eternity (2023), last spring. It was recorded in nine days at Crackle & Pop! studio, produced by Johnny Sangster. For the first time they made more use of synthesisers and also ventured into more acoustic territory. In the lyrics Mudhoney take on the absurdities of modern life, climate change and politics. "I don't know if it's any different. It's the same four people it's been since early 2000. It's just our new batch of songs. I'll leave it to the listeners to decide whether it's different – whether it's good or bad, whether they like it or not. That's all completely out of my control," Mark Arm told mxdwm.

Mudhoney were founded by Mark Arm and Steve Turner, original members of Green River, along with Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament, who later formed Pearl Jam. Their breakthrough album Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge (1991) came out on the iconic Sub Pop label, home to other leading grunge bands. Although they kept evolving musically, as shown by the psychedelic elements on Since We've Become Translucent (2002) and their experiments with brass on Under a Billion Suns (2006), they kept coming back to their grunge roots, for example on Vanishing Point (2013) and Digital Garbage (2018).