Alive in the Nineties
Aaron GilbreathMusic and life as a listener in the 1990s
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The Fingers
The Fingers were an early-90s garage punk band from East LA, made up by Shane White, Jason White, Raul Balcarcel, and briefly, their first singer Brady Rifkin. And they knew the best Bay Area trash bands, like The Mummies.
In the early-90s...
Talking With 13th Ward Social Club
While jamming some instrumental beat music on a streaming service one day, the algorithm suggested a song by something called 13th Ward Social Club. I clicked it. The song mesmerized me. It was an infectious amalgam of all kinds of world mu...
The Foo Fighters' First Three Albums
Dave Grohl closed out the Nineties with some truly killer music.
People have some mean things to say about the Foo Fighters. One reddit poster described Foo’s music as “Alterna-rock wallpaper.” Someone else called the band “The beige of ro...
Giant Sand's Wanderlust & Whimsy
Giant Sand, 1993. Photos from sa-wa-ro.com
Howe Gelb has a simple philosophy for his music and life: “The word is veer,” he says.
Three years ago, this nice Jewish boy from Scranton, Pennsylvania, veered from Arizona to New Mexico, to a b...
Riot Boyyy
Photo of 1980 and 1991 zines, from the DC Punk Archive via the Washingtonian.
In 1991, I was living in Spokane, Washington and had started publishing my own chapbooks and setting up spoken word shows for the first time. I was heavily influ...
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Essayist, Journalist, Burritoist, written nonfiction stories for Harper's, The Atlantic, The Dublin Review, Sierra, and The New York Times. My books include The Heart of California: Exploring the San Joaquin Valley and This Is: Essays on Jazz.
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