Bush

Bush were one of the very first post-grunge bands, as well as one of the movement’s hardest to pin down.

Their origin story is straightforward enough: when singer Gavin Rossdale and guitarist Nigel Pulsford founded Bush in 1992, they were a young London act inspired by the booming Seattle scene—Nirvana’s snarling disaffection in particular.

American fans embraced the British exports without hesitation, helping to transform Bush’s hook-laden debut, 1994’s Sixteen Stone, into one of the decade’s biggest smashes, with hit singles—“Everything Zen,” “Comedown,” “Glycerine,” “Machinehead”—arriving in rapid-fire succession.