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NEW YORK - WHITHER VEDDER?

Oh good, yet another Boomeresque screed by an out-of-touch 40-year-old who just can't understand why this generation hasn't risen up and produced a political voice on par with the Sheryls Crow and Rages Against the Machine of yesteryear. Fuck the fact that the percent of 18- to 24-year-olds voting has gone from less than a third to nearly half over the past three presidential elections, when is a major-label band of 20-somethings going to go on a massive corporation they purportedly hate's flagship network's flagship show and only get to play one song for their beliefs? That's what we want to know. Remember when Rage did that? That shit shook the nation to its core. Ooh, or how about that time they refused to play in front of a bunch of Gen-Xers for 15 minutes (before playing) in protest of the PMRC? You can rest assured that move haunts Tipper & co. to this very day. I would love to see Leftover Crack and Against Me! host a "metal jam" on either side of Ann Powers's house while Kanye West shouts "We care" through a megaphone. Wait, sorry, I would pay to see that.

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