All of this joking we’ve all been doing about the incoming 1990s retro wave is starting to have utterly horrifying effects: It’s like we think it, then it happens! First, Pavement got back together — real talk: we’re embarrassingly stoked about this, but also have the requisite ironic distance from it (AGAIN, THE GODDAMNED 1990s) to know that there is something a little wrong with that — and now, NOW, NOW LOOK: The Lilith Fair is back! Ahahahaha. No. No. No. But yes. But yes. But yes. And of course, Philly’s on the list of the first dates. And of course, much of the lineup will make you wanna marf as much now as you did back then. But here’s a curious thing: There’s just enough good stuff here that you might could actually go and dig it even if (especially if) you haven’t taken off your Indigo Girls embroidered acid wash denim jacket since 1991, and we suppose that maybe, finally, in post-death, the Lilith Fair might be getting closer to its stated goals surrounding women in music instead of being a rally for all of the poor, oppressed white female singer-songwriters out there. This time around, they’ve got Mary J. Blige! OK, well, maybe that’s not enough, but honestly, we’ll just be happy so long has Sarah McLachlan doesn’t bring the dogs. Please Sarah. We know. We know.

This entry was posted on Monday, December 14th, 2009 at 4:39 pm.