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Nostalgia has always informed the new, but never quite like this
We may be hitting the nostalgia apex with Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One, and it feels like something’s about to break.
The Rockin’ Rock Reckoning
Emo music is having a renaissance, and it’s making former emo dudes like me realize emo dudes weren’t always the good guys.
I bought a CD at Best Buy
A few days ago I went to Best Buy to buy the new Green Day CD. (If this were Twitter, that sentence would have been followed by something like “#tweetsfrom1997.”) It felt… weird. Chilling, really. Have you stepped into a Best Buy recently? It’s like visiting a Blockbuster Video (Not that I’ve done that, of course, but I saw the episode of South Park a few weeks back that showed what it must be like.): employees cluster around each other, talking merrily until they see a customer stagger in, and then they swarm. Rows and rows of Blu-Rays, DVDs, and CDs line the middle of the store, but if you watch carefully you can actually see these shelves getting smaller an inch at a time.
The Ties That Bind
Kurt Cobain’s devotion to fan integrity and purity shouldn’t be admired.
A Life Of Chasing Butterfly
Why did Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo peak as a songwriter so early in his career?
And What’s So Stinking About It?
On being a poor person on a cold night in a warm city with inadequate heating and insomnia, plus thoughts on Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, the presidency of Ullysses S. Grant, the Gorillaz, and more!
Happiness
Everything and everyone is depressed. What’s going on?
My name has held me back long enough. It’s time for a change!
Plus: I list things I find overrated and underrated. How original.
What Davey Havok Can Teach Us About Shrimp
The frontman for emo superstars AFI has a poignant message in defense of the world’s prawns.
The Nickelback Diaries: Day Two
My journey into the abyss that is Nickelback’s catalog continues, and I try to answer life’s most important question: What is Nickelback’s worst song?
The Nickelback Diaries: Day One
The Nickelback Diaries: Day One In which I set out to scale Mount Nickelback. by MATT STOKES | AUGUST 10, 2009 It's THE NICKELBACK DIARIES! You can also read the INTRODUCTION to this series and PART TWO. Put your girlfriend in the bet to make things good '...
Wait a minute…
I suddenly understand a song I’ve heard 89,000 times.
Is Nickelback the Worst Band in the World? (Probably.)
A bartender hands me a stack of Nickelbacks in retaliation for my insulting his favorite band. So I set out to investigate how bad this band really is.
Top Ten Albums Of 2008
In a bad year for music, I pick my ten favorite albums. It’s all rock music, because I’m boring.
Weezer!
I saw Weezer live in Houston. It was my first time seeing my favorite band live.