[Pazuzu]

I'm going to call 2022-2023 "The Year that Bankrupted Gen X".

Everyone who's anyone knows that Alternative music basically has two birthdays. First, was 1981-1983, and the second was 1991-1993. Basically everyone who was anyone started in one of those two periods. Well, we're celebrating the 30th and 40th anniversaries of those musical nodes.


Between this week and June, we have 40th anniversary tours for New Order, The Cure, Sisters of Mercy, Skinny Puppy. 30th anniversary tours for My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult and the Pixies. In the last 6 months it included 40th anniversary shows for Fear, Circle Jerks, Anthrax. We SHOULD have had a 40th tour for Slayer, but they literally lived 40 years in 37 years, and had to hang it up. Coming up is Violent Femmes, Depeche Mode. Bauhaus tried to have a tour, but Peter Murphy checked himself into rehab, so now Love and Rockets is going to tour!

Freaking Siouxie is going to tour again. Might as well bring back Concrete Blonde while we're at it!



How is a Gen Xer going to pay for all of this???