Tag: Grunge

  • Courtney Love

    Courtney Love

    Essay  ·  Music & Culture The Mess That Was Also the Method Courtney Love arrived in the early 1990s indie scene like something the scene had not known it was missing: a woman who wanted to be enormous, who was not prepared to be grateful for whatever space was made available to her, and who…

  • Singles and the Soundtrack of the 1990s

    Singles and the Soundtrack of the 1990s

    Before Reality Bites defined Generation X in cinema, Cameron Crowe’s Singles (1992) caught the mood of a subculture just as it was cresting into the mainstream: grunge. Set in Seattle at the dawn of the decade, the film is less a tight narrative than an ensemble sketch, drifting between the apartments, cafés, and concert halls…