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Story angles

Five ways into this, depending on what you cover.

From a Rock Hall stage to arm’s length

Eleven months after returning to the Soundgarden stage for the band’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, Hiro Yamamoto bursts into Miami with a first-edition event that puts rock at the center of the city.

Miami has bands and is running out of rooms

The city lost its last commercial rock station in August 2025, and lost Gramps and Bar Nancy in the same stretch, while the venues opening in 2026 lean toward touring acts, DJ nights and listening lounges. More than 40 South Florida acts played a two-day bill at Churchill’s in August.

The grunge founder who became a chemist

Yamamoto left Soundgarden in 1989 and went back to school. He holds a master’s degree in physical chemistry and has worked as a chief chemist in an environmental science laboratory. He was inducted into the Asian Hall of Fame in 2022.

The guitarist Nirvana rehearsed with

Before Truly existed, Robert Roth spent three or four hours in a rehearsal room with Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic, playing songs off Bleach, after Sub Pop’s Jonathan Poneman flagged him for the job. Nirvana stayed a three-piece. The week Roth heard, Mark Pickerel quit Screaming Trees and the two started Truly. Roth has told the story in his own words.

The opening slot: decided

The South Florida opener contest drew original songs from bands across the region. The winner: Shy Blossom, who opens the night when the first edition returns in 2027.

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Grunge Lives Here postponed to 2027

Truly, tribute act Last Goodbye and opener Shy Blossom to share the bill when the first edition returns; new date to be announced

MIAMI, October 14, 2026 — The first edition of Grunge Lives Here, set for Saturday, October 24 at La Scala in Brickell, has been postponed to 2027. The new date will be announced soon. Hiro Yamamoto, who co-founded Soundgarden in 1984 and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the band last November, will still headline with his band Truly.

Tickets already purchased will be refunded.

It is Truly’s first Florida date, and part of the band’s Then, Today and Tomorrow tour, marking 30 years since their debut album Fast Stories…from Kid Coma. Yamamoto played on Soundgarden’s earliest records — Screaming Life, Ultramega OK and Louder Than Love — before leaving in 1989. He co-founded Truly with Robert Roth soon after, and the band spent the nineties making records that became cult favorites within the movement. They are now writing new material.

“I’m excited about the new chapter that is emerging for Truly as we celebrate 30 years of the release of Fast Stories…from Kid Coma.”Hiro Yamamoto, Truly

Grunge Lives Here is built as three acts in one night. Truly closes it. Miami’s Last Goodbye plays the middle, running the decade’s canon — Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Temple of the Dog, Soundgarden.

And the night opens with Shy Blossom, the South Florida band confirmed as opener after an open submission process, playing the generation of Miami rock coming up right now.

“We join a night that brings together the people who built the sound that defined a generation. That legacy is honored live.”Mauricio Rojas, Last Goodbye

The timing is not incidental. Miami lost its last commercial rock station in August 2025, when 104.3 The Shark dropped its alternative format for sports. It lost Gramps and Bar Nancy in the same stretch, and the rooms opening in the city this year lean toward touring acts, DJ nights and vinyl listening lounges. What Miami is not short of is bands — last weekend more than 40 South Florida acts played a two-day bill at Churchill’s Pub, which reopened in 2025 after five years dark.

Additional guests will be announced through the event’s social channels.

When
Postponed to 2027
New date to be announced
Where
To be announced
with the new date
Tickets
Tickets already purchased
will be refunded

Note to editors: Truly’s current touring lineup does not include founding drummer Mark Pickerel. Please confirm lineup details with the press contact before publication.

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Who’s playing

The bill

Truly

Headliner · Seattle

Truly formed in Seattle in the early nineties around Robert Roth (vocals, guitar) and Hiro Yamamoto (bass), the founding bassist of Soundgarden. Signed to Capitol, they released Fast Stories…from Kid Coma in 1995 and Feeling You Up in 1997 — longer, stranger and more psychedelic than the radio version of the Seattle sound happening around them, and never as widely heard.

There is a footnote to the band’s origin that has become part of Seattle lore. After Roth’s previous band Storybook Krooks broke up, Sub Pop co-founder Jonathan Poneman stopped him on a Seattle bus to say Nirvana were looking for a guitarist who could write. Roth’s tape reached Kurt Cobain through Mark Lanegan. The band hauled their gear up to Roth’s rehearsal space and they played for three or four hours — songs from Bleach, and one of Roth’s own that Cobain thought was catchy. Nirvana decided to carry on as a three-piece. The week Roth got the news, Mark Pickerel quit Screaming Trees, and Truly began.

The band is touring in 2026 as Then, Today and Tomorrow, marking 30 years since the release of their debut album Fast Stories…from Kid Coma. Roth and Yamamoto say the chemistry of the line-up and their combined experience remain the backbone of Truly’s sound — Yamamoto: “I’m excited about the new chapter that is emerging for Truly as we embark on a tour and record new music.” The band has signed with new management, Worldwide Entertainment Group, and is currently writing and preparing to record new material, with plans to explore re-releasing its classic catalog for a new generation of fans. Miami is their first Florida date.

Hiro Yamamoto

Bass · Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Yamamoto co-founded Soundgarden in Seattle in 1984 with Chris Cornell and Kim Thayil, and played bass on the band’s first records — Screaming Life, the Grammy-nominated Ultramega OK, and Louder Than Love — before leaving in 1989. He co-founded Truly with Robert Roth soon after.

He was inducted into the Asian Hall of Fame in 2022, and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Soundgarden in November 2025, returning to the stage with the band for the induction performance. Away from music he holds a master’s degree in physical chemistry and has worked as a chief chemist in an environmental science laboratory.

Last Goodbye

Special guest · Miami

Last Goodbye is a Miami tribute band playing the songs of the nineties — Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Temple of the Dog, Mad Season, Silverchair — electric or acoustic depending on the room. They bill it as “grunge and other 90s oddities.”

The band is Frank DiMarzo (vocals, guitar), Carlos Díaz (guitar), Mauricio Rojas (bass) and Rafael Pérez (drums, backing vocals).

They recently played Music Walk in Fort Myers and Riot Sessions at Churchill’s Pub in Miami, and return to Riot Sessions on December 13.

Shy Blossom

Opening act

Shy Blossom opens the night. In their own words: "We’re shy blossom and we’re an indie alternative band out of Southwest Florida. Our music is a mixture of our different inspirations from rock all the way to folk and pop. We make music for all of the overly emotional people, those who overthink falling asleep, the deep feelers, and the hopeless romantics. We have music that makes you cry, think, feel, dance, and feel euphoric."

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