Not much these days lives up to the idea of the present we've sold ourselves through the culture of the past. Didn't it seem ten years ago, when alternative rock was just beginning to elbow its way onto radio playlists -- when weird shit like dancemeisters My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult and not-so-weird shit like the Spin Doctors was getting people excited -- that in the 21st Century, we'd be listening to the craziest music ever? That the airwaves would be ruled by people who dressed up as milkmen and played traditional Scottish folk songs remixed with trip-hop beats and spruced up with wack old-school raps (and somehow... More >>>