Blog: Stereogum

Singles was the second movie written and directed by Cameron Crowe. It's an amiable rom-com starring Campbell Scott and Kyra Sedgwick, and some say a great movie, but is most notable because it was filmed and set in Seattle, 1991, just as that city's musical subculture was about to explode. In the book Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History Of Grunge , Crowe says that the March 1990 heroin-related death of Mother Love Bone singer Andrew Wood - and the community that came together after his death - served as something of an inspiration [...]