Former lawyer Stephanie Dorgan opens the Crocodile Cafe in a vacant building in Belltown. The album is dedicated to Andy Wood, with Chris Cornell writing the first two songs soon after Wood's passing. Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, and Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam and Matt Cameron of Soundgarden accompany Cornell on the album. Pearl Jam's Ten is released on Epic Records. Nirvana's Nevermind is released on Geffen Records.
Press start coming up to Seattle from all over the world.
Kurt Cobain marries Courtney Love at a ceremony in Waikiki, Hawaii. Dylan Carlson of Earth is Cobain's best man. Officials claimed that the expected attendance exceeded capacity and that Seaweed was a punk band that would attract the wrong element. On the day the show was supposed to be played, then band set up skateboard ramps in the suburb and partied with the skaters and Seaweed and Seven Year Bitch. The soundtrack to the movie Singles is released, featuring songs from Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Screaming Trees, Mother Love Bone, and Chris Cornell.