Blog: Violent Success

You’re thirteen years old. You run into your bedroom clutching a new CD – or cassette tape, or vinyl, or 8-track, or whatever medium defined your era – and close the door. You start the music and lay down on your bed, closing your eyes. You listen. The drums start first, a slow rock beat, then a guitar slips in with a bass line. The singer croons the opening verse, and you clutch the bedspread. By the third track, you’re intoxicated. And even though you’ve never heard the songs before, it feels like they’ve always been there, a part of [...]