Tag: nirvana

  • This is Grunge

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    What is such-and-such a time/place/scene in music? We’ll ask and answer from time to time. This is a quick ‘n’ easy one: What is grunge? This is grunge: A punk/heavy metal hybrid that emerged in Seattle during the late 1980s. Guitars were sludgy, lyrics typically angst-filled, shirts flannel, and authenticity valued above most else. The…

  • “Into the Black”

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    The death of Kurt Cobain (4/5/94)–and the end of grunge–profiled the summer after in Spin (via Longform): Seattle bid goodbye to Kurt Cobain on April 10 in true grunge-rock style, bursting the ranks of a quickly organized public vigil and leaping into the nearby international fountain, a giant, water-spouting structure some 50 yards wide and…