It’s been 15 years this spring since Wilco released their sixth album, Sky Blue Sky. So that means it’s been 15 years this spring since music critic Rob Mitchum unleashed the term “dad-rock” upon the world. In his review of the alt-country legends’ album for Pitchfork, Mitchum wrote that it was “an album of unapologetic straightforwardness, [that] nakedly exposes the dad-rock gene Wilco has always carried but courageously attempted to disguise.” And with that, a roast was born.The “adjectival dad” had been around since the late twentieth century, when it emerged attached to the “dad joke,” but Mitchum gave it viral life. To be a “dad” in this mode is to be embarrassing but perplexingly unemb
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