Alice In Chains Receive Museum Of Pop Culture’s Founders Award

The Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) on December 1st 2020, presented Alice In Chains with its 14th Annual Founders Award, an honour given to artists who have made outstanding contributions to popular music.

The Founders Award event serves as the non-profit museum’s principal annual fundraiser for youth development programs, access initiatives, community engagement, and world-class exhibitions. So far the celebration has raised £500,000 and counting, attracting more than 275,000 views online throughout the evening.

”It was an amazing evening honouring Alice In Chains and raising a tremendous amount to support our non-profit institution” said MoPOP Executive Director Alexis Lee.

Alice In Chains were thrilled to be honoured and, upon receiving the award, Jerry Cantrell said ”This band started in 1987, three and a half miles down the road in Ballard… it’s a pretty amazing journey that we’re still on. There are so many great artists and friends who have contributed shout-outs and performances, it’s been a really cool experience and William, Sean, Mike, and I would like to thank everybody. And, as we accept these awards, we want to remember our bandmates as well, Layne Staley and Mike Starr.”

The full show is available to view https://www.youtube.com/c/MuseumofPopCulture and contributions to support the museum’s exhibitions, programs, and educational work can still be made at www.MoPOP.org/FoundersDonation

The museum, along with Amazon Music, has announced the release of ‘MoPOP Founders Award Honouring Alice In Chains: A Benefit for the Museum of Pop Culture’, a brand-new Amazon Originals compilation. Available for streaming only on Amazon Music, the compilation features highlights from the event’s performances.

Track List
1. ‘Your Decision’ – Alice In Chains
2. ‘Rooster’ – Ann Wilson
3. ‘Down In A Hole’ – Duff McKagan, Shooter Jennings, Ayron Jones, Martin Feveyear
4. ‘Would?’ – Korn
5. ‘Rain When I Die’ – City and Colour
6. ‘Put You Down’ – Liv Warfield
7. ‘Again’ – Mastodon
8. ‘Would? (Acoustic)’ – Metallica
9. ‘Black Gives Way To Blue’ –  Lily Cornell Silver with Chris Degarmo
10. ‘Nutshell’ – Mark Lanegan, Maggie Bjorklund
11. ‘Man In the Box’ – Dave Navarro, Taylor Hawkins, Corey Taylor, Chris Chaney
12. ‘No Excuses’ – Alice In Chains
13. ‘Heaven Beside You’ – Aryon Jones
14. ‘Check My Brain’ – Billy Corgan
15. ‘Them Bones’ – Fishbone
16. ‘Drone’ – Kim Thayil with Krist Novoselic, Giants in the Trees
17. ‘Brother’ – Nancy Wilson, Mark Lanegan and Liv Warfield
18. ‘Angry Chair’ – Members of Soundgarden with Tad Doyle, Mike McCready and Meagan Grandall
19. ‘Black Gives Way to Blue’ – Eric & Encarnación
20. ‘It Ain’t Like That’ – Kim Thayil with Shaina Shepherd, Bubba Dupree, Bill Herzog, Nathan Yaccino

Listeners can access the compilation album simply by asking, ”Alexa, play the MoPOP Founders Award album” in the Amazon app for iOS and Android and on Alexa-enabled devices.