Portland's Everclear are the most successful of the post-grungesters when it comes to being a household name. Formed in Portland in 1991, Everclear hit the turbo boost button and made short work of any possible contemporaries in 1995 with Sparkle and Fade. Not that the key ingredients are anything fancy: grinding, crunchy guitars littered with catchy Punk-Pop riffs and an occasional flirtation with the blues. Their stranglehold on the charts exists because singer/guitarist Ar...  [+]