First they came for Wilco, at least that’s the first time I heard the term. Wilco was “Dad Rock” and it made me laugh, because at that point “Sky Blue Sky” had just come out…
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Voice of My Generation: In Defense of the Gin Blossoms’ ‘New Miserable Experience’
It never occurred to me that my love of the Gin Blossoms’ “New Miserable Experience” was something I should be ashamed of until I wrote a short story for a Loft class in 2006. The…
20 Years On I Still Believe What Weezer Sang on The Blue Album
So today Weezer’s “Blue Album” is twenty years old. I cannot let any of the anniversaries of my personal cultural touchstones go unremarked. This is one of the advantages of making it to fortysomething. You…
Voice of My Generation: 20 Years in the Shadow of Kurt Cobain’s Death
Today marks the 20th anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death. Ten years ago I wrote about his death and a young man named Crazy Tony. Ten years ago I was more sentimental than I am now….
My Neutral Milk Hotel: A GenXer’s Perspective
I did not go see Neutral Milk Hotel at First Avenue last night. I won’t go tonight. Even though I was twenty-six in 1998, I didn’t see them that year when they played the 400…
Voice of My Generation: A lot of you disappointed the hell out of me yesterday
As you probably know most of the country is in the grips of the evil Polar Vortex, who is sitting on her ice throne in the Arctic circle feuding with her brother the Heat Miser…