<em>Grunge Is Dead</em> offers a definitive oral history of grunge....Prato, a contributor to All Music Guide and Billboard.com, offers accounts from more than 125 musicians (with the exception of Nirvana), record label owners, and scenesters. The book traces grunge's meteoric rise out of the 1980s hard-core punk scene-and its decline owing to the growing prevalence of heroin use.