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Going into November strong right after celebrating 41 years of slinging platters, Park Ave CDs hosts a talk with music critic Chris DeVille, managing editor of venerable indie-centric blog Stereogum. DeVille is on tour promoting his new book Such Great Heights: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion.
Which indie-rock explosion, you ask? R.E.M., Sonic Youth and the college rock boomlet of the 1980s? Nirvana’s world domination in the ’90s? No, Such Great Heights instead focuses in on musical territory documented in real time by Stereogum in the early aughts through to the present day, taking in St. Vincent, Phoebe Bridgers, Death Cab for Cutie, LCD Soundsystem, TV on the Radio, Haim and many more. The book also looks at the broader pop-culture contexts of the era, promising “a time machine for millennials.”
Moderating this event is, honestly, one of the few Orlandoans with a matching encyclopedic knowledge of underground and alt-sounds: Matt Gorney of the Civic Minded 5.
7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29, Park Ave CDs, 2916 Corrine Drive, parkavecds.com, free.
This article appears in Oct. 29–Nov. 4, 2025.
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