A conversation with Rob Harvilla

Name: A conversation with Rob Harvilla
Start: 2024-11-14T20:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-11-14T21:00:00-04:00
Location: 5071 Wallings Road, North Royalton, OH 44133

Schedule

Thu Nov 14 2024 at 08:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

5071 Wallings Road, North Royalton, OH 44133 | North Royalton, OH

Join us at our North Royalton Branch for a conversation with Rob Harvilla, author of "60 Songs That Explain the '90s."
Register: https://attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/11203327
Harvilla is the host of the podcast "60 Songs That Explain the '90s" and a senior staff writer at The Ringer; he's been a professional rock critic for 20-plus years with stops at the Village Voice, SPIN, Deadspin, and various other alt-weeklies that generally no longer exist. (Not his fault.) He lives with his family in Columbus, Ohio, by choice.
The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of genres and lifestyles and superstars, from grunge to hip-hop, from sumptuous R&B to rambunctious ska-punk, from Axl to Kurt to Missy to Santana to Tupac to Britney. In 60 Songs That Explain the '90s, Rob Harvilla reimagines all the earwormy, iconic hits Gen Xers pine for with vivid historical storytelling, sharp critical analysis, rampant loopiness, and wryly personal ruminations on the most bizarre, joyous, and inescapable songs from a decade we both regret entirely and miss desperately.
📕 Books will be available for purchase courtesy of Mac's Backs - Books on Coventry.