Gen X's Window Is Closing

How Pavement Became the Greatest Band of the Nineties This Year: “If this really is the moment in which a Gen X sensibility gets to celebrate itself, well, it could turn out to be a fleeting one. Pavement is being set up as exactly the kind of legendary band younger people love to reject — especially since that wry disaffection isn’t as useful anymore, what with there not being much of a monoculture to be suspicious of.”