In late 1992, a New York Times reporter called the offices of Sub Pop, then America’s most fashionable record label, to gain an understanding of what constituted “grunge” culture. Jonathan Poneman, one of Sub Pop’s founders, passed the call off to Megan Jasper, the label’s 25-year-old front-desk employee, who happily responded to the Times’ questions about the youth “lexicon” of the day.
“There really wasn’t a secret language” of grunge, Jasper later told a reporter. “It seemed like a fairly bizarre request. So, I just thought, ‘Sure. You want a lexicon? I will totally give you a lexicon.’”
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