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The Hair Metal Edition

On crimewaves, moral lessons, and decline

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Feb 06, 2024
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Michael Grant (MG) is a writer and creative director in San Francisco. His previous entries include Albuquerque, The Tanforan Shell Station, and Poptimism.

Michael here. The story goes that Nirvana killed hair metal. But what fewer people know is that the genre would have died years before Nevermind, had it not been for a heretofore unreported crimewave …

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