Urban Tribes: GRUNGERS

Grunger is someone who follows the musical movement originating in Seattle called Grunge

Grunge music born in the city of Seattle in the early nineties as an evolution of punk. The word grunge means dirt, refers to an untidy and dirty aesthetic distortions in the voices and the in look. The distinctive features of the grunge sound was heavily distorted guitars and strong, catchy vocal melodies are often repetitive and changes of pace of the songs trapped in the genre, while their lyrics reflect characterized by apathy and disillusionment.

Presentation and fashion

His aesthetic is often sloppy, corduroy jeans or frayed and often broken, overlapping shirts, lumberjack shirt, tousled hair and old shoes, usually this is usually their appearance, both men and women, although that is the case that some riot_grrrls (term used to describe the girls belonging to this movement) dress in dark corduroy skirts and stockings (usually with careers and broken) and T-shirts overlapping or broken, as to hair and make-up is very sloppy riot_grrrl , tousled hair and black eyes and lips highlighted in red or a bright colours.


Grunge expanded globally during the first half of the nineties, mainly driven by the commercial success of Nirvana's album Nevermind and Ten by Pearl Jam. That success catapulted the popularity of alternative rock and grunge became the genre's most popular hard rock that time. Despite this, many groups have always been uncomfortable with his superstar status and the appearance, because of the influence of the media, grunge movement, which in some cases they caused internal conflicts that led them from separation until the death of some members.

The popularity of grunge begins to wane in the mid-nineties. Of the great bands that gave birth to the movement, are only active in 2008 Pearl Jam, Mudhoney and the Melvins, although it is hoped an upcoming meeting of Alice in Chains.

Despite this, the influence of grunge was decisive in further development of the rock.

They rebel against the consumer society which is guided by what the television tells them to do, listen, be, think, read and view.