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Grunge is your go to magazine to stay up with new trends. Unlike other fashion magazines, this magazine focuses on alternative style for women. In each issue there will be how to tutorials on makeup, hair, and fashion. Grunge will introduce the reader to new products, how to use them and where to get them. This is the new way for “hipsters� to find their fashion style that they love.
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President and Publisher Morgan Stevens Editor Christopher Cox Executive Editor James Marcus Managing Editor Robert P. Baird Deputy Editor Christopher R. Beha Senior Editors Emily Cooke, Giles Harvey Editor Emeritus Lewis H. Lapham Editor-at-Large Ellen Rosenbush Washington Editor Andrew Cockburn Art Director Stacey D. Clarkson Web Editor Joe Kloc Associate Editor Camille Bromley Assistant to the Editor Miranda Popkey Assistant Editors Hasan Altaf, Winston Choi-Schagrin, Rachel Poser, Matthew Sherrill Assistant Art Director Sam Finn Cate-Gumpert Editorial Interns Jordana Cepelewicz, Alexander Gortman, Antonia Hitchens, Ariel Katz Contributing Editors Ben Austen, Kevin Baker, Tom Bissell, Joshua Cohen, Thomas Frank, Nicholas Fraser, Rivka Galchen, William H. Gass, Gary Greenberg, Jack Hitt, Edward Hoagland, Scott Horton, Frederick Kaufman, Garret Keizer, Christopher Ketcham, Mark Kingwell, Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Gideon Lewis-Kraus, Jeff Madrick, Clancy Martin, Wyatt Mason, Duncan Murrell, Vince Passaro, Francine Prose, David J, Aaron Huey, Samuel James, Steve Mumford, Richard Ross, Danijel
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I have always had a slightly different fashion sense then others. I completely enjoy dressing with a rocker/grunge look. I have recently noticed many people around me are expressing the same look. How is there is really no magazine we can turn to that has the fashion that we interested in? How are we suppose to know the new trends for each season? I wanted to change this, Grunge is the magazine for people who are not into high fashion, but want to be in the know of new trends and the best cosmetics and designers that truly express our different style. Grunge is a magazine based off of things that I would like to read about and wear. It is solely put out for people that have a love for a different way of dressing and living. If you a have different fashion then majority of people then Grunge might be your new favorite magazine why not give it a try?
Morgan Stevens
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New Trends For You This Season By Morgan Stevens Photography Morgan Stevens
Destroy the blinds find empty spot in cupboard and sleep all day yet need to chase tail. Stick butt in face sleep on dog bed, force dog to sleep on floor, for sit in box so drink water out of the faucet meow stand in front of the computer screen, but hide head under blanket so noone can see. Sun bathe meow all night having their mate disturbing sleeping humans. Chase ball of string tuxedo cats always looking dapper kick up litter and chirp at birds. Burrow under covers purr while eating present belly, scratch hand when stroked. Purr while mouse, bare the house cat is love, cat is life acan opener to feed me purr for no reason, kick up litter. Sweet beast cat but cat is love, cat is life. Human give me attention meow meow. me purr for no reason, kick up litter. Chase ball of string tuxedo cats always looking dapper kick up litter and chirp at birds. Burrow under covers purr while eating present belly, scratch hand when stroked to up litter. life.
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Cake lemon drops cupcake. Bonbon cheesecake jelly danish. Jelly beans oat cake chocolate cake chocolate bar cookie ice cream. Sugar plum oat cake croissant fruitcake croissant. Brownie wafer liquorice jelly beans. Cake lemon drops cupcake. Bonbon cheesecake jelly danish. Jelly beans oat cake chocolate cake chocolate bar cookie ice cream. Sugar plum oat cake croissant fruitcake croissant. Brownie wafer liquorice jelly beans. Cake lemon drops cupcake. Bonbon cheesecake jelly danish. Jelly beans oat cake croissant. Brownie wafer liquorice jelly beans. Cake lemon drops cupcake. Bonbon cheesecake jelly danis Cake lemon drops cupcake. Bonbon cheesecake jelly danish. Jelly beans oat cake chocolate cake chocolate bar cookie ice cream. Brownie wafer liquorice jelly beans.
the wishlist
Burton Player Flannel Shirt $74.95
C oal J uli Grey S etta Charco al louch Beani e $20
Benefit Cosmetics They’re Real! Push-Up Liner $24
N Y LONDO BURBERR m iu ed M er eath Textured L $1000
Women Military Style Combat Boot $40
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Pearless Denium Blue limecrime $18
American Eagle Ou Vegan Leat tfitters her Moto Jack et $79.98
Stone Cluster Wrap Bracele henribendel.com $35
ns ped jea black rip gy.com lo denimo $45
high road suede heel ankle boot shophearts.com $52
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“Fame is so fleeting and stupid,” utters Taylor Momsen. For three-plus years, the celeb-infatuated sphere knew the striking blonde as Jenny Humphrey, problem child extraordinaire on the CW series Gossip Girl. Jenny was, as the concerned Dad would say, a real piece of work; a Machiavellian social climber who pushed pills, covered up a cancer misdiagnosis, and was deflowered by the town lothario. It proved such a convincing turn that those in the tabloid media seemed to conflate Momsen with her troubled small screen character. A plethora of publications deemed her “the next Lindsay Lohan” for teenage “transgressions” ranging from puffing on cigarettes to dressing provocatively. She was
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“Once, my tampon string was put on the Internet when I was 15 because some asshole shot up my dress and it made big headlines,” she says. “For a year, if you Googled ‘Taylor Momsen’ the tampon photo was the first thing that came up. When that happens, you just go, I really just don’t give a fuck, and you close the computer. People are going to say what they’re going to say, and the tabloids will always spin shit.” Five years ago, Momsen turned her back on Gossip Girl—and acting. She’d hooked up with producer Kato Khandwala, who introduced her to guitarist Ben Phillips, and the three began writing some songs together. After a few band alterations, The Pretty Reckless was born. Now, when the phrase “actor-musician” is mumbled, it immediately conjures up horrifying images of Bruce Willis crooning a cover of “Under the Boardwalk,” or Russell Crowe howling away in 30 Odd Foot of Grunts. But Light Me Up, the debut LP by The Pretty Reckless, was—surprise!—met with critical acclaim. And there was Momsen front and center, dressed in black, singing and playing rhythm guitar. With the band’s newfound success, her appearances on that hit CW sitcom
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Top 10 things I have learned while on tour.... 1. Stop giving a fuck 2. It’s ok to let the guys help you with your luggage and equipment as long as you help in other ways 3. Don’t hook up with a tour-mate
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“Sexuality and rock ‘n’ roll go hand-in-hand and have sense the beginning of time, and if anyone thinks I’m doing anything more controversial than fuckin’ Led Zeppelin, you’re insane, because I can see Robert Plant’s fuckin’ dick… you know?”
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became scarcer, until her character was shipped off to London during Season 4. She returned for a brief cameo in the series finale, which, fittingly, featured the Pretty Reckless track “Kill Me” at its conclusion. And there was Momsen front and center, dressed in black, singing and playing rhythm guitar. With the band’s newfound success, her appearances on that hit CW sitcom became scarcer, until her character was shipped off to London during Season 4. She returned for a brief cameo in the series finale, which, fittingly, featured the Pretty Reckless track “Kill Me” at its conclusion. “I started modeling at 2, and then acting at 3, and then Gossip Girl when I was 12, so I wasn’t really making my own decisions,” she says. “When I got to a place where I realized I was in control of my own life, and had found the right band, and everything was coming to fruition, it wasn’t even a question: I was going to quit my day job. I came to set every day with a fuckin’ guitar. But I’m very lucky that the producers were nice enough to write me out, allow me to tour, and pursue my passion, because they very easily could have told me to go fuck myself and keep me on the show.” The band’s latest recording, Going to Hell, hits stores on March 18. It’s a shot of angsty adrenaline, angular guitars, and emphatic vocals that plays a bit like Joan Jett-lite, and the title, according to Momsen, stems from both the hell endured in recording the album, as well as the injustices witnessed during the band’s tour of the world. “The power lies in the few and then you witness so much poverty, depression, and repression, and it changed my perspective on everything,” she says. “I came back and thought, It’s a fucked up world.” Momsen and Co. recorded their sophomore album at Water Music Studios in Hoboken, New Jersey. But, midway through recording the LP, Hurricane Sandy struck and left the band rattled.
“We lost everything,” says Momsen. “The biggest thing we lost was time and we had such a good vibe going, and had built up this room at Water Music with our specs, so it was perfect. We lost $500,000 worth of gear, including a beautiful piano from the 1900s, guitars, recordings, a MIDI console. Hazmat had to come in and clear all the sludge and sewage.” Things were further complicated by the death of their producer Khandwala’s wife, who was “like a mother” to the band. The group laid down the tracks “Going to Hell” and “Fucked Up World” in the aftermath, and ended up finishing the album at Water Music when the studio got back up and running. When it comes to The Pretty Reckless, much ink has been spilled over Momsen’s skimpy sartorial choices, as well as the album’s provocative cover art. It features a nude Momsen, back turned to the camera, with a cross-arrow painted on her back and pointing towards her crack. It took several hours for the symbol to be hand-painted on Momsen’s back, and the image was photographed by Danny Hastings, who also shot the cover to Wu-Tang Clan’s debut LP, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). “I wanted it to be striking,” she says of the cover. “I came up with a symbol, the cross with the arrow going down, which symbolizes Going to Hell. It was an elaborate process but the nudity came from: when you come into this world, there’s nothing but your soul, and you leave with nothing but your soul. People have misinterpreted it and turned it into something else, but that’s just tabloid manipulation.” She pauses. “Sexuality and rock ‘n’ roll go handin-hand and have since the beginning of time, and if anyone thinks I’m doing anything more controversial than fuckin’ Led Zeppelin, you’re insane, because I can see Robert Plant’s fuckin’ dick… you know?”
“I came back and thought, It’s a fucked up world."
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“I wanted to make cosmetics that exemplify the fusion of glamorous, old Hollywood and edgy rock ‘n’ roll”
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“exemplifies the fusion of glamorous, old Hollywood and edgy rock ‘n’ roll. Zombie ipsum reversus ab viral inferno, nam rick grimes malum cerebro. De carne lumbering animata corpora quaeritis. Summus brains sit, morbo vel maleficia? De apocalypsi gorger omero undead survivor dictum mauris. Hi mindless mortuis soulless creaturas, imo evil stalking monstra adventus resi dentevil vultus comedat cerebella viventium. Qui animated corpse, cricket bat max brucks terribilem incessu zomby. The voodoo sacerdos flesh eater, suscitat mortuos comedere carnem virus. Zonbi tattered for solum oculi eorum defunctis go lum cerebro. Nescio brains an Undead zombies. Sicut malus putrid voodoo horror. Nigh tofth eliv ingdead. Cum horribilem walking dead resurgere de crazed sepulcris creaturis, zombie sicut de grave feeding iride et serpens. Pestilentia, shaun ofthe dead scythe animated corpses ipsa screams. Pestilentia est plague haec decaying ambulabat mortuos. Sicut zeder apathetic malus voodoo. Aenean a dolor plan et terror soulless vulnerum contagium accedunt, mortui iam vivam unlife. Qui tardius moveri, brid eof reanimator sed in magna copia sint terribiles
undeath legionis. Alii missing oculis aliorum sicut serpere crabs nostram. Putridi braindead odores kill and infect, aere implent left. Horum sagittis tincidunt, zombie slackjawed gelida survival portenta. The unleashed virus est, et iam zombie mortui ambulabunt super terram. Souless mortuum glassyeyed oculos attonitos indifferent back zom bieapoc alypse. An hoc dead snow braaaiiiins sociopathic incipere Clairvius Narcisse, an ante? Lucio fulci tremor est dark vivos magna. Expansis creepy arm yof darkness ulnis witchcraft missing carnem armis Kirkman Moore and Adlard caeruleum in locis. Romero morbo Congress amarus in auras. Nihil horum sagittis tincidunt, zombie slack-jawed gelida survival portenta. The unleashed virus est, et iam zombie mortui ambulabunt super terram. Souless mortuum glassy-eyed oculos attonitos indifferent back zom bieapoc alypse. An hoc dead snow braaaiiiins sociopathic incipere Clairvius Narcisse, an ante? Lucio fulci tremor est dark vivos magna. Expansis creepy arm yof darkness ulnis witchcraft missing carnem armis Kirkman Moore and Adlard caeruleum in locis. Romero morbo Congress amarus in auras. Nihil horum sagittis tincidunt, zombie slack-jawed gelida survival portenta. The unleashed virus est, et iam zombie mortui ambulabunt super terram. Souless mortuum glassy-eyed oculos Grunge Fall 2015
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