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…
Posts tagged GenX
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…
Lorde Might Smell Like Teen Spirit, but that Doesn’t Make Her Nirvana of Now
Lorde, for those of you who live under rocks different than the ones I live under, is a teen pop music sensation from New Zealand. Her song “Royals” topped the Alternative Music charts awhile back,…