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London music
fromPitchfork
15 hours ago

Generation X: Generation X

Big Ben's explosion in 1976 marked a cultural shift, coinciding with the rise of punk rock and Generation X's emergence in music.
Music
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 weeks ago

The uncomfortable truth that will always haunt the Ramones: They sold more T-shirts than records'

The Ramones' 1976 self-titled debut album, recorded cheaply in seven days, became one of the most influential albums in music history despite commercial failure and established punk rock as a revolutionary genre.
Startup companies
fromwww.businessinsider.com
10 hours ago

I founded Culture Pop in my 50s, but my youngest hires keep it relevant and fresh

Tom First founded Culture Pop, a probiotic soda brand, focusing on health-conscious consumers and achieving significant revenue growth in a competitive market.
SF music
fromSFGATE
2 days ago

The 'Jesus of Cool' returns to rock San Francisco

Nick Lowe has a long-standing affection for San Francisco, performing there since the late 1970s and cherishing his memories of the city.
Digital life
fromBuzzFeed
2 days ago

22 Still-Popular Things That Older People Thought Would Just Be "Quick Fads"

Certain trends and cultural phenomena have persisted far beyond initial expectations of being mere fads.
Writing
fromWIRED
2 days ago

John Perry Barlow, JFK Jr., and a Night of Grief I Can't Forget

Cynthia Horner's sudden death in 1994 deeply affected friends, including John Perry Barlow and John F. Kennedy Jr.
Silicon Valley food
fromTasting Table
3 days ago

George Harrison's Love For This Candy Caused A Chaotic Concert Trend - Tasting Table

George Harrison's fondness for Jelly Babies led to fans throwing the candies at The Beatles during performances.
#millennials
fromwww.businessinsider.com
6 days ago
Marketing

Brands spent years chasing Gen Z. Now it's a 'millennial summer.'

Millennials are reclaiming cultural influence and spending power, driving nostalgia and trends in fashion, entertainment, and experiences.
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago
Mental health

The Millennial Disappointment: When Life Had Other Plans

Millennials face disillusionment as they become the first generation potentially worse off than their parents due to unmet expectations.
Marketing
fromwww.businessinsider.com
6 days ago

Brands spent years chasing Gen Z. Now it's a 'millennial summer.'

Millennials are reclaiming cultural influence and spending power, driving nostalgia and trends in fashion, entertainment, and experiences.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

The Millennial Disappointment: When Life Had Other Plans

Millennials face disillusionment as they become the first generation potentially worse off than their parents due to unmet expectations.
Fashion & style
fromHer Campus
5 days ago

Consumerism, Conformity, & The Death Of Originality

Social media marketing influences consumer behavior, leading to conformity and potential loss of individuality in personal style.
Books
fromThe Atlantic
6 days ago

How Long Can You Live Your Ideals?

Pat Calhoun chooses parenthood over radicalism, paralleling Elsa Haddish's struggle between her militant past and raising her daughter safely.
History
fromSmithsonian Magazine
6 days ago

When America Found Itself Ready to Roll, Route 66, Stretching From Chicago to Los Angeles, Was the Road of Endless Possibilities

Route 66 evolved from a simple highway to a cultural symbol of freedom and modernity in America.
Music
fromConsequence
4 days ago

Flea Says Hillel Slovak Documentary "Filled My Heart Right to the Top"

Flea expresses deep gratitude for the documentary about Hillel Slovak, emphasizing its emotional impact and significance to the band.
fromSFGATE
1 week ago

Four Bay Area tweens made an album in 2000. 25 years later, it became a hit.

'We had a few songs that we were like, 'These are really good, these are genius, and we are the Spice Girls slash Destiny's Child,' said singer Ayden Mayeri in the documentary, on which she served as director.
Music production
SF music
fromSFGATE
6 days ago

San Francisco museum named to prestigious list after just a year in business

The Counterculture Museum celebrates the 1960s and '70s rock era and has gained recognition as one of the world's greatest places.
Digital life
fromBuzzFeed
1 week ago

People Over 50 Are Sharing What Was "Normal" In The '70s, And Gen Z Would Lose Their Minds

The 1970s featured unique cultural norms and practices that seem unbelievable today, from social behaviors to household items.
Music
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

Extremely rare' Bob Dylan draft lyrics discovered inside Allen Ginsberg book

A draft of Bob Dylan's lyrics for 'I'm Not There' was found in a Ginsberg paperback, set to auction for $20,000-$40,000.
Arts
fromenglish.elpais.com
3 weeks ago

Rebecca Hall: We lost counterculture somewhere along the way'

Peter Hujar's Day reconstructs a 1974 conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and writer Linda Rosenkrantz, capturing the vibrant 1970s New York art scene through dialogue set entirely in Hujar's Westbeth apartment.
Music production
fromThe New Yorker
2 weeks ago

How Should We Remember the Hippies?

Modern political resistance relies on podcasts and short-form videos rather than traditional speeches or music, creating disposable media that serves pundits but excludes artists and poets.
fromThe Wire Magazine - Adventures In Modern Music
2 weeks ago

"We thought our book would be on your cable spool table": Clark Coolidge on Rock Notes - The Wire

I think it probably started when I first made contact with Tom Clark. He was in England at graduate school and he asked me to be in a magazine he was starting. We somehow began talking about rock music and he subsequently sent me 45s by The Cream and Jimi Hendrix Experience, both groups being unknown to me.
Books
Digital life
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Young people are longing for the low-tech 90s and so would I, if I could only remember them

Embracing 90s nostalgia encourages disconnecting from technology to experience life more fully and invites serendipity.
Music
fromDefector
1 week ago

Who Killed Rock And Roll? | Defector

1996 marked a significant shift in music, with rap rising in popularity and rock facing challenges amid changing cultural tastes.
San Francisco
fromsfist.com
4 weeks ago

Field Notes: Rare SF Tree Map, Dad Punk, and the Fight for Reproductive Rights in 1960s SF

San Francisco preserves memories of the deceased through historic structures like the Columbarium, interactive installations like the Heaven Phone, and community landmarks that honor those who have passed.
fromBusiness Insider
3 weeks ago

Coach's former CEO said Gen Z is most similar to the 60s generation

So I've seen generations change, and Gen Z is the generation that's most similar to my generation, the sixties. They're very value-driven. They're concerned with climate, they're concerned with authenticity, truth, being who they are, and relationships.
Fashion & style
fromFuncheap
3 weeks ago

50th Anniversary of Punk Rock in San Francisco (The New Farm)

A special 50th anniversary Punk Rock history event at The New Farm featuring bands and musicians from the dawn of the punk rock revolution of San Francisco. NO ALTERNATIVE, SLEEPERS AD, SOCIETY DOG plus AVENGERS guitar player GREG INGRAHAM performing with JEAN CAFFEINE, THE DEAD SAILOR GIRLS & INSECT LOUNGE.
SF music
LA real estate
fromLos Angeles Times
24 years ago

It Was a Hangout for His 'Friends'

Matthew Perry sold his Hollywood Hills home for approximately $839,000, while also purchasing a Beverly Hills property for $3.2 million, and Devon Sawa bought a renovated Spanish-style Hollywood Hills home in the low-$900,000 range.
Music
fromBrooklynVegan
2 weeks ago

New 'Emo Revival' book coming from BrooklynVegan's Andrew Sacher

Andrew Sacher's book 'Emo Revival' explores the DIY community and resurgence of emo and post-hardcore music from 2008 to 2018.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

We all want to know what he was doing in the bedroom': Kerouac's unseen archive goes on show in New York

A new exhibition featuring previously unpublished Kerouac letters and artifacts aims to move beyond the mythologized rebel image and reveal the literary development and humanity behind the beat generation icon.
London music
fromwww.bbc.com
4 weeks ago

'Godmother of rock and roll' inspires young pianist

Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a pioneering gospel and blues guitarist, profoundly influenced rock and roll legends but remains largely unknown to the public, with her story now being told through a West End play starring Beverley Knight.
San Francisco
fromFuncheap
1 month ago

Golden Gate Park Sunday Roller Disco Party (SF)

Golden Gate Park's Skatin' Place hosts a weekly Sunday roller disco party with DJ music and dance instruction for inline and roller skaters.
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

What's a Gen X to Do?

Beleaguered Louvre president Laurence des Cars quits after a historic heist under her watch. The next morning, a new leader is announced. It's Christophe Leribault from the Palace of Versailles, a true museum animal who ran a few during his career.
Arts
Psychology
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

When Do We Become Adults, Really?

Life stages defined by biology, society, and chronology fail to capture the actual experience of growing up and personal transformation.
Los Angeles
fromLos Angeles Times
22 years ago

Avant-garde colony reborn as a 1950s suburb

Winnetka evolved from a 1920s utopian communal experiment founded by Charles Weeks into a family-oriented suburban community with affordable 1950s ranch-style homes attracting diverse residents and investors.
SF music
fromMission Local
1 month ago

SF celebrates 50 years of punk at iconic Mabuhay Gardens

San Francisco's punk scene remains vibrant, as demonstrated by hundreds celebrating 50 years of punk history at the reopened Mabuhay Gardens venue.
NYC music
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The bathrooms were rank, but we didn't care': how the grimy-but-great CBGB changed rock for ever

CBGB, a New York dive bar opened in 1973, became the birthplace of punk, new wave, and multiple rock subgenres that transformed modern music's sound and aesthetic.
#nostalgia
fromBuzzFeed
1 month ago
History

49 Photos of Forgotten '70s Things That Will Make Any Boomer Feel Instantly Nostalgic

fromBuzzFeed
1 month ago
History

49 Photos of Forgotten '70s Things That Will Make Any Boomer Feel Instantly Nostalgic

Music
fromConsequence
3 weeks ago

Country Joe McDonald, '60s Counterculture Singer, Dead at 84

Country Joe McDonald, 1960s folk-rocker and Vietnam War protester, died at 84 from Parkinson's disease after a career spanning decades of anti-war activism and music.
NYC music
fromFar Out Magazine
1 month ago

Kim Gordon's favourite New York songs

Kim Gordon's return to New York immersed her in the city's no-wave and punk scenes, directly shaping Sonic Youth's early experimental sound.
SF music
fromSFGATE
1 month ago

His band defined 1990s indie rock. In SF, he reclaims a singular voice.

Stephen Malkmus, a founding member of Pavement, continues to define alternative rock as a solo artist and bandleader while maintaining relevance across three decades through evolving musical projects.
Digital life
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

9 weekend rituals from the 60s and 70s that created a sense of togetherness screens have replaced - Silicon Canals

Shared weekend rituals like family meals and aimless Sunday drives fostered togetherness, intimacy, and presence that digital devices have gradually eroded.
#1960s-counterculture
UK news
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

I grew up in the 70s and didn't realize these 8 childhood experiences were unusual until I talked to younger generations - Silicon Canals

1970s childhoods involved unsupervised outdoor freedom that fostered independence, problem-solving, and risk assessment, unlike today's highly supervised childhoods.
Philosophy
fromAeon
2 months ago

Youthful joy and civil unrest collide in this epic road trip tale | Aeon Videos

A 1981 Polish animated short follows friends on an overcrowded road trip to the Baltic, using stark black-and-white visuals to examine youth, camaraderie and freedom.
Film
fromBuzzFeed
2 months ago

Sorry, Only People Who Grew Up In The '80s Can Identify These Movies By Their Blurred Posters

A 15-question quiz challenges players to identify iconic blurred '80s movie posters, testing visual recognition and nostalgia-driven memory.
Music
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Celebrate rock n' roll history in Oakland with Greil Marcus, Daveed Diggs

Greil Marcus celebrates the 50th anniversary of his influential book Mystery Train with a discussion on music's role in defining American ideology.
Fashion & style
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Flip it and reverse it: what JFK Jr's backwards cap signals today

John F. Kennedy Jr.'s backwards baseball cap became a defining high/low fashion signature, blending old-money tailoring with street-chic informality.
Real estate
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

9 things that were standard middle class in 1985 that are now luxury items, and most boomers haven't fully processed that the life they considered normal is now aspirational - Silicon Canals

The middle-class standard of living from 1985—including affordable homeownership on a single income—has become attainable primarily by the upper-middle class today.
fromThe American Conservative
2 months ago

It's Not Springsteen's America Anymore

These ghosts of our nation drove overdose deaths to record highs during the pandemic. More than 100,000 Americans ODed in a 12-month period ending in April 2021, up almost 30 percent from the prior year. The majority of these deaths of despair, about 70 percent, were among men between the ages of 25 and 54, men who should be creating or influencing or building cars or welding high steel.
Right-wing politics
Relationships
fromSilicon Canals
2 months ago

8 things boomers swore they'd never become that they've slowly turned into anyway-and their kids see it even if they don't - Silicon Canals

A generation that once embraced change has become resistant to technology and critical of younger generations while repeating the same behaviors they condemned.
Tech industry
fromFortune
1 month ago

Gen Z are rebelling against TikTok USA by installing another app-founded by an Oracle alum | Fortune

Gen Z U.S. creators are abandoning Oracle‑controlled TikTok by downloading UpScrolled, a rival app founded by a former Oracle employee.
Writing
fromOpen Culture
1 month ago

Jack Kerouac Lists 9 Essentials for Writing Spontaneous Prose

Writing should be a rapid, breath-driven, associative outpouring that privileges rhythm, immediacy, and improvisation over revision and strict grammatical correctness.
Film
from48 hills
2 months ago

Swinging '60s legend Twiggy: 'It happened so fast, and I was so young' - 48 hills

Twiggy undergoes an emotional reckoning in a reflective documentary that emphasizes vulnerability, reinvention, and reclaiming her own story.
Music
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

Hip hop faces its midlife crisis

Hip hop's cultural dominance has sharply declined, losing 24% sales share and 19% streaming share since 2023, with few emerging artists capable of sustaining mainstream relevance after Kendrick Lamar's 2024 peak.
History
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

Today in History: January 14, Summer of Love' starts in San Francisco

Jan. 14 marks diverse historical events including the 1967 Human Be-In, the 1784 Treaty of Paris ratification, political milestones, cultural debuts, and notable personal events.
Music
fromLos Angeles Times
1 month ago

Remembering when the Beach Boys had their own Santa Monica clubhouse

Brother Studio in Santa Monica was where the Beach Boys reunited in the mid-1970s for a creative resurgence, producing albums like 'Love You' and the previously unreleased 'Adult/Child' before Brian Wilson's death.
Film
fromOpen Culture
2 months ago

David Lynch Remembers Attending the Beatles' First American Concert in 1964

David Lynch's upbringing across multiple U.S. states and early exposure to rock and Beatlemania helped shape his distinctly American sensibility.
History
fromSilicon Canals
2 months ago

People who grew up in the 60s and 70s usually have these 10 qualities that younger generations find remarkable - Silicon Canals

Adults raised in the 1960s-70s retain practical repair skills, strong memory, resourcefulness, and work approaches that often impress younger generations.
Fashion & style
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

The latest generational war over how we wear clothes: The millennial tuck is creepy'

Tucking the front of a shirt into the waistband—the 'millennial tuck'—became a generational style marker that Gen Z now mocks as outdated.
Film
fromwww.amny.com
2 months ago

Fugs Film! chronicles America's most subversive band of the sixties, from folkways to FBI files amNewYork

The Fugs were an East Village 1960s band mixing anarchic, theatrical rock, poetry, and protest, influential on underground culture and controversial for explicit, satirical songs.
Digital life
fromBuzzFeed
2 months ago

People Are Pointing Out The Parts Of American Culture That Are Changing Before Our Eyes

Widespread convenience technologies let people avoid leaving home, reducing everyday face-to-face interaction and increasing social isolation, division, and hostility.
#1980s
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

8 songs that played on every boomer road trip that still trigger vivid family memories - Silicon Canals

The smell of vinyl seats baking in the summer sun, the crackle of AM radio cutting through static, and dad's off-key humming as the family station wagon rolled down another endless stretch of motorway. If you grew up in the 60s or 70s, these sensory memories probably just transported you back to childhood road trips that seemed to last forever. Those journeys weren't just about getting from A to B. They were rolling classrooms where we learned geography from road signs,
Music
History
fromsfist.com
2 months ago

New Book Explores the Bay Area's First Cult, Which Called Santa Rosa Home

Thomas Lake Harris founded the Brotherhood of the New Life, a utopian California commune marked by sexual coercion, authoritarian matchmaking, and financial scandal.
#bob-weir
fromVulture
1 month ago

When Is a Band Not the Same Band Anymore?

"When I read the fine print, it was 'an experience with REO Speedwagon's music.' It's none of the original members," Fletcher recalls. "I don't want to promote the show unless it's the real thing. I don't know why you would want to see that. It's just a cover band. To me, that's a little bit strange." He adds, with a sigh, "If there are no original members, who cares?"
Music
Music
fromFuncheap
2 months ago

90s + 00s Alt-Rock with Audiorage at St. James Gate

Live 1990s–2000s alternative rock night featuring covers of The Strokes, Green Day, Hole, Paramore, Offspring, Rage Against the Machine, System of a Down; Belmont address provided.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

We wouldn't still be playing if we'd got stinking rich': the Damned celebrate 50 years of punk, goth and holy grail hunting

There isn't one songwriter, and so the flavour of the band is always going to change, says Dave Vanian, reflecting on 50 years of the group of which he has been the sole constant member, the Damned. Captain Sensible is a great fan of syrupy pop music and prog and glam rock. So his writing is very poppy, melodic and quite wonderful.
Music
fromwww.amny.com
2 months ago

To her' with love: A night of British Invasion girl power brings '60s music magic back to Manhattan amNewYork

There's plenty to enjoy in Amber Martin and Shannon Conley's production of The Carnaby Street Girls regardless of whether you're old enough to remember the British Invasion or just discovering that there was a whole lot of great music that came out of England in the '60s. Playing last weekend at The Cutting Room in Kips Bay, the two powerful singers had a great time, singing together and separately, with a repertoire of fab tunes that were hits for a number of swinging British gals.
Music
Music
fromPitchfork
2 months ago

Worldpeace DMT / Rowan Please: The Velvet Underground & Rowan

The Velvet Underground and Rowan blends '60s influences with late-'00s/early-'10s indie nostalgia, delivering joyful, irreverent pop.
Music
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

The Trident's role in Bay Area music history

Sausalito's Trident, opened by the Kingston Trio in 1960, closed permanently after decades as a waterfront dining and music landmark frequented by musicians and celebrities.
Music
fromOpen Culture
2 months ago

Elementary School Choir Sings the Grateful Dead's "Ripple," "Box of Rain," "Brokedown Palace" & More: RIP Bob Weir

Elementary choir in Austin performs Grateful Dead classics alongside diverse music, illustrating the band's multi-generational endurance.
Music
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

Mark Zuckerberg's 2004 coding jams were loud, emo, and very on brand

Mark Zuckerberg shared a five-song playlist he listened to while building Facebook in 2004, featuring hard-rock, emo, and electronic tracks.
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