Deep Cuts

by Holly Brickley

Neil is just a few years older than me, but he is deeply rooted in that Gen X hatred of the mainstream, an aversion as much political as it is aesthetic.

authenticity seems to me only one metric by which to judge music, and I don’t see why it should swallow all the other ones, including beauty and fun.

It made me want to write a song, an inverse of “Bay Window,” about the specific camaraderie of New Yorkers in moments of anarchy.