Soundgarden signed to an Indian record label in 1988.
Soundgarden was the first grunge band to sign to a major label -LRB- A&M Records in 1988 -RRB- , though the band did not achieve commercial success until they popularized the genre in the early 1990s with Seattle contemporaries Pearl Jam , Nirvana , and Alice in Chains .	A&M	A&M Records	Pearl Jam	Pearl Jam	grunge	grunge	A&M Records	A&M Records	Nirvana	Nirvana (band)	Alice in Chains	Alice in Chains
A&M Records was an American record label founded as an independent label by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in 1962 .	Herb Alpert	Herb Alpert	Jerry Moss	Jerry Moss	record label	record label
