"Beat it!" This is the woman who, as singer and songwriter of L7 – the all-female punk band who rode the grunge wave – removed her tampon onstage at the Reading festival in 1992 and threw it at hecklers.
"New age grunge," someone called Matteah's most recent album, taking the words right out of our mouth.
The Seattle grunge explosion was just a drive away, and the riot grrrl movement, set up in part as a protest against its macho aggression, felt genuinely revolutionary.
This came to a head in 2007 over the bleak My December, an album that opens with the girl who was meant to be America's sweetheart snarling " I hope the ring you gave to her turns her finger green" over grunge guitars, and ends with Irvine, a bare, flickering lightbulb of a ballad that sounds like a nervous breakdown in song form.
Its music scene has diversified, encompassing punk, grunge and funk.
No one could have anticipated Kate Moss's early "grunge" look, which set a fashion for tangled long hair, boyish hips and pale complexions.
IT'S tough to know which Neil Young will show up on any given night—he's dabbled in country, techno and grunge among other genres.
Riding the grunge wave of the early 1990s, Mr Young even recorded with Pearl Jam as his backing band.Monday's show included a few surprises, such as a touching cover of "Changes" by Phil Ochs, a folk singer whose own 1970 Carnegie Hall show was cut short by a bomb threat.
André Leon Talley, Vogue's editor-at-large, predicted that grunge would mean the end of fashion.
But hip-hop, like grunge, disco and psychedelic before it, is sure to fade, to make room for the next street fashion.
There are no hard rules; unlike Seattle sound which is essentially grunge, there is no distinct Austin sound.
