grungy
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I have heard from haggard, decrepit millennials that it used to be different, that it used to be grungy and alternative.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026
The rest of the album alternates between chaos and control, introspection and criticism, grungy beats and hazy surrealism.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026
Then suddenly, after six years of graft, Wolf's grungy obsession anthem In My Room started trending on TikTok.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
Representing Gomez’s children, they evoke something closer to a parent’s reality: lovable kids, grungy and soiled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026
The sound system alternately blared hip-hop and grungy emo rock as various DJs took turns pushing one another out of the way.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
Celeste took our breath away with a grungier, angrier sound than the floaty jazz-soul of her debut.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2025
It delivered Davis’s first gold and platinum albums, and shifted mainstream jazz from elegant arrangements optimized for cramped nightclubs to bigger, grungier structures tailor-made for stadium speakers.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
“It was all dirtier and grungier and louder. You’d have to go to Aberdeen to find anything close to it, with Melvins and Nirvana.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 18, 2022
The part called for Richards to be far grungier and physical than she is on reality TV — and to film a harrowing scene in a North Carolina swamp home to alligators and snakes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2021
As budding singer-songwriters with distinctive voices and a penchant for wordplay, they offered a much-needed bridge from plasticine 1980s pop to a grungier, earthier 1990s-era sound.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2020
Mr. Packard’s subjects are Los Angeles, its grungiest denizens, paranoia, and film itself.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2018
Described by friends of the band as perhaps the group’s gothiest record, Taylor-Taylor considers This Machine the band’s grungiest.
From Time ● Apr. 25, 2012
"People are tired of finding the oldest, grungiest T shirt in a thrift store."
From Time Magazine Archive
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