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Is Julia Wolf bringing grunge back to life?

Carmen Pope, Special to the Chronicle October 29, 2025
   If you are even half as addicted to your phone as I am, there is a good chance that you have heard the song “In My Room” that has been trending on TikTok. The song is usually paired with an edit of one of the five “Twilight” movies, since those are the artist, Julia Wolf’s, favorite movies. The song went viral online for its 2000s throw-back vibes, and went platinum on my Spotify account. I was utterly obsessed.
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How grunge music brought honesty back to music

Ryan Monke, Opinions Editor April 2, 2025
   Saturday, April 5, is a solemn day for fans of grunge music. The date represents the tragic passing of two of the genre’s most revered voices: Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain and Alice In Chains’s Layne Staley. Although the singers passed from different causes – Cobain from suicide in 1994 and Staley from an overdose in 2002 – both deaths were a result of lives tormented with depression, isolation and substance abuse, themes they didn’t shy away from in their music. 
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