Everything you’ve been told about 'dad rock' is a lie

[The Patriot]

Everything you’ve been told about 'dad rock' is a lie

06-14-2019 06:40 AM

As musical epithets go, it’s hard to say whether "dad rock" is more insulting to the dads or the rock.It’s a term that’s been flung at everyone from Pavement to the Eagles, and it’s most often used to describe a multigenerational swath of rock ’n’ roll that no longer feels angry enough at the world to want to change it. Or if not that, maybe it’s just mature rock music made by and for chill, white dads.


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