postgrunge

• post-grunge

post- +‎ grunge

postgrunge (uncountable)

1. A subgenre of alternative rock from the mid-1990s, utilizing the sounds and aesthetic of grunge, but with a more commercially acceptable sound.
   • 1999, Simon Reynolds, Generation ecstasy: into the world of techno and rave culture

     Although the "Electronica Revolution" has been hailed in the US media as the long-overdue arrival of techno to America, it's readily apparent that the British invaders have met the postgrunge audience halfway.

   • 2006, Lynn Viehl, Dark need

     "Aren't you a little young for that? What happened to grunge and punk?" "It's postgrunge now. I think punk is buried next to disco."

   • 2009, Barry Mazor, Meeting Jimmie Rodgers

     A similar impulse lay behind the alternative country idiom that established itself in the mid-'90s, with a historical knowingness and postgrunge sensibility...