Episode 71 - Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me with Steven Hyden (live at Cactus Club)

Steven Hyden is no stranger to followers of Milwaukee music—or to
followers of this podcast, for that matter. Hyden is the former
city editor for A.V. Club Milwaukee, the former music editor for
the national A.V. Club, and a former staff writer for the
gone-but-not-forgotten Grantland. These days he's living in
Minneapolis and hosting an excellent music podcast called
Celebration Rock, and preparing for a new writing and editing gig
with Uproxx. Oh, and he just released his first book, Your
Favorite Band Is Killing Me, which uses famous pop music
rivalries to explore bigger themes of identity, growing up,
growing old, and Axl Rose threatening to kick Kurt Cobain's ass.


Host Matt Wild sat down with Hyden last week in front of a live
audience at Cactus Club for Milwaukee Record's inaugural Book
Club. They talked about Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me—which
includes chapters on everything from Blur vs. Oasis and Prince
vs. Michael Jackson to Taylor Swift vs. Kanye West and Roger
Waters vs. everyone else in Pink Floyd—pop music in general,
Hyden's time in Milwaukee, and a whole lot more.