• Postgrunge

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    postgrunge

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    1. A 1990s subgenre of alternative rock, utilizing the sounds and aesthetic of grunge, but with a more commercially acceptable sound.
      • 1999, Simon Reynolds, Generation ecstasy: into the world of techno and rave cultureAlthough the "Electronica Revolution" has been hailed in the US media as the long-overdue arrival of techno to America, it's readily apparent that the British invaders have met the postgrunge audience halfway.
      • 2006, Lynn Viehl, Dark need"Aren't you a little young for that? What happened to grunge and punk?" "It's postgrunge now. I think punk is buried next to disco."
      • 2009, Barry Mazor, Meeting Jimmie RodgersA similar impulse lay behind the alternative country idiom that established itself in the mid-'90s, with a historical knowingness and postgrunge sensibility...
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