FARGO ROCK CITY, FOR REAL I am including the following story for two reasons, neither of which is, “Because it’s good.” In many ways (in fact, in most ways), this story is horrible. It was my attempt to explain the Fargo, North Dakota, “rock scene” when I was twenty-three years old. In retrospect, it now reads like a satire of daily newspaper entertainment reporting, which was certainly not my intention at the time. But that’s also what’s kind of cool about it; the description of all the 1995 bands in Fargo (and its sister city, Moorhead, Minnesota) is probably pretty close to the rock scene
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