That’s right baby! Howard Wolfson, erstwhile communications director for Hillary Clinton and current Fox News Channel contributor, is now an indie rock blogger! His new blog, Gotham Acme, provides Wolfson’s “musings about music, and, from time to time, politics.” So far he’s unearthed such unknowns as TV On The Radio (”America’s best band”), Drive By Truckers and The Hold Steady, pictured above (”Two of America’s best live bands!”). So if you’re daring enough to go off the beaten Beltway path, log on and tune in!! (By the way, Washington Post political writer Chris Cillizza’s favorite band is Wilco, the greatest band you’ve never heard of.)
Are Gen-X’ers the new baby boomers? Just like our parents who will never get over how proud they are of Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan and Ravi Shankar (like they were responsible for them or something), washed up Gen-X’ers will never miss an opportunity to tell you they saw Einsturzende Neubauten and Camper Van Beethoven during freshman year in college. The worst midlife crisis cases will always feel like they need to know the next cool “underground” band, which happens to be in Rolling Stone.
To be fair, unlike boomers, Gen-X’ers were on some legitimate shit back in the day. They rocked Sonic Youth, Black Flag, the Meat Puppets, Bad Brains, Violent Femmes, Replacements, Dinosaur Jr…. the list goes on. Whether or not you’ve actually listened to any of those bands in the last decade, they were definitely pretty cool in the 80s and sound a hell of a lot better today than the Arctic Monkeys will in 20 years. Hell, music that came out five years ago is already unlistenable (Kings of Leon?) How’s that for longevity.
(This is giving Howard Wolfson the benefit of the doubt that he’s even young enough to belong to Generation X. I have no idea. He looks older in that picture than others of him.)
TAGS: Arctic Monkeys, Aretha Franklin, baby boomers, Bad Brains, Black Flag, Bob Dylan, Camper Van Beethoven, Chris Cillizza, Dinosaur Jr., Einsturzende Neubauten, Fox News Channel, generation x, Hillary Clinton, Howard Wolfson, Kings of Leon, Ravi Shankar, Sonic Youth, the Meat Puppets, the Replacements, the Violent Femmes
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