Hopper’s take on two decades of rock music isn’t just a history of bands and musical trends, from Michael Jackson to emo, Nirvana to Riot Girrrl, it is astute cultural criticism that uses music as a lens to bring various currents of contemporary life into sharper focus. Including early work in punk fanzines, and later pieces published in GQ, Rolling Stone, The Chicago Reader, and other publications (some of these essays were selected for the DaCapo Best of Music Writing series in 2004, 2007, 2009, 2010, and 2011), this collection showcases Hopper’s extraordinary range and vision. Hopper will be in conversation with Chris Richards, The Washington Post’s pop music critic.
