S ome connections are cosmically fated. Justine Dorsey and Graham Epstein first met on the dating app Hinge, bonded by an affinity for the type of breezy, infectious pop music from the early aughts. Both happened to be born on the same day in 1995, adding to the mystical alignment …
Read More »Meet After, the L.A. Duo Making Y2k-Inspired Pop That Feels Like Right Now
S ome connections are cosmically fated. Justine Dorsey and Graham Epstein first met on the dating app Hinge, bonded by an affinity for the type of breezy, infectious pop music from the early aughts. Both happened to be born on the same day in 1995, adding to the mystical alignment …
Read More »Y2K Mania: When People Thought the World Was Going to End
There was actually a time when we didn’t need social media to drum up mass hysteria, and the new HBO documentary Time Bomb Y2K is ready and raring to take us back there. This superbly edited dash through pre-millennial anxieties is a time capsule of archive footage — no narrator, …
Read More »Remembering the Biggest Party of Y2k
In Steve Adelman’s nightlife memoirNocturnal Admissions, we get an inside look into the generation of dance culture on the rise at the dawn of the millennium, just before 9/11 would alter the course of our culture’s history. Embedded in these stories are anecdotes about how attitudes around queerness, dance music, …
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