How Singles Introduced Me to the Grunge Scene 30 Years Ago

September 18th marks 30 years since the film Singles was released.

Singles is a 1992 film by Cameron Crowe about the emerging grunge music scene in Seattle.

The film now serves as a time capsule with a grand snapshot of Generation X in the most nineties way possible.

There are flannels and Doc Martens a plenty, but really it is an ode to the music of the musicians in the film right before they all shot to super stardom.

And for me, a young gal from Northeast Pennsylvania, it served as an introduction to a hip, Northwestern city filled with a rockin’ night-life that I made it my mission to visit someday.

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